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After a year of Russian advances, the goal for 2026 is simply to survive, said one officer in eastern Ukraine. “It’s hard to make any plans,” he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says several key issues remain unresolved in negotiations with the United States over a framework to end Russia’s war.

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces. The UAE later said it would withdraw its forces from Yemen.

Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.

He says the Total War games will always diverge from the "real" path of history, because the games allow players to make decisions that alter the course of events. Total War's game director Pawel Wojs agrees and says allowing players to answer their own "what if" questions is a big part of the appeal.

Alan Ritchson, who stars as Jack Reacher, will star in Netflix’s sci-fi action thriller War Machine, which is set to release on March 6, 2026.

War and Peas is the creation of a dynamic duo from Saarbrücken, a town on the German-French border. Jonathan Kunz, a lecturer at the local art school, and Elizabeth Pich, a freelance comic artist, joined forces in 2011 to publish comics online.