The U.S. joined a chorus of countries on Thursday in blaming Russia for a major cyberattack on the Republic of Georgia, pledging to hold the Kremlin accountable.

Libya's warring parties have returned to negotiations aimed at salvaging a fragile cease-fire in the North African country after they had suspended talks earlier this week, a U.N. spokesman said Thursday.

A lawyer for the captain of a cargo ship jailed in Italy for allegedly transporting embargoed armaments to Libya contended on Thursday that there are no legal grounds for a case against his client in Italy.

After veering off the road, the vehicle skidded more than 150 feet along a bike path and flipped onto its roof.

The MV Alta landed ashore amid a burst of violent, stormy weather, wedging itself onto a rocky outcropping and perplexing locals and authorities in Cork, Ireland.

Stephen Weiss, 94, survived some of the fiercest combat of World War II and then learned that battles don’t end when the shooting stops.

A photo exhibit highlighting Vicenza-assigned Americans of color will be on display this weekend in the city’s old town.

Army aviation forces from Greece and the United States took part in a live-fire training exercise Wednesday at the foot of Mount Olympus, marking deepening defense ties between the two countries.

An American soldier was injured in a brawl Saturday night on a Grafenwoehr street that’s home to several bars, German police and U.S. military officials said.

Some residents in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, say having American troops in the Polish village makes them feel safer. Others just like having them in town.

Hundreds of photos of the notorious Sobibor death camp and other key sites in the Nazi extermination machine were stashed for decades in albums belonging to the camp's deputy commandant and in the attic and cupboards of the family home.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday.

About 20,000 pieces of military equipment must be deployed from the U.S. for Defender-Europe 20.

Turkey's president criticized on Wednesday the European Union’s decision to launch a maritime effort focused on enforcing the U.N. arms embargo around Libya, accusing European nations that agreed to the operation of “interfering in the region.”

Majorities in 16 member states surveyed said they believe the U.S. military would defend them if they were attacked, but only in five of the countries polled did majorities say their country should use force to defend an ally.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday issued a stark warning that China threatens "long-standing international rules-based order."

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam K. Ginett, who was killed 10 years ago in Afghanistan, was honored this week at Aviano, where the Airman Leadership School was named after him.

There will be periodic lulls but “the winds will pick up speed again” in Rheinland-Pfalz, a meteorologist said, adding that winds were expected to average 30-45 mph on Tuesday in the Kaiserslautern area.

As the city of Hanau, Germany, prepares to honor the memory of Staff Sgt. Joseph Eugene Prokop and two other Army Air Forces members, details have emerged that are rewriting his story, adding a new layer of tragedy.

No NATO ally should succumb to the temptation of letting Chinese tech giant Huawei into their next-generation cellular networks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday at Allied headquarters, turning U.S. opposition to Huawei into a bipartisan effort.

Two years ago, he was a no-name stray who’d bark from a distance at American soldiers every time they’d step off a base in northeastern Poland. Today, the friendly mongrel has a place of his own.

In October 2016, the head of Russia's largest oil company traveled to Venezuela to the birthplace of Hugo Chávez to unveil a giant bronze statue of the late socialist leader. The Trump administration wants to break up that blossoming alliance as part of its campaign to oust Chavez's successor, Nicolás Maduro.

Last week, at least three other people in quarantine for possible coronavirus infection fled the same St. Petersburg hospital. Two of them have since returned while the third — a woman named Anna Rybakova, according to media reports — remains at large.

Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists blamed each other for an outbreak of fighting in the country’s rebel-held east on Tuesday.

A court in Istanbul on Tuesday acquitted nine leading Turkish civil society activists of terrorism-related charges related to anti-government demonstrations, including a renowned philanthropist who has been jailed for more than two years.

A court in Istanbul on Wednesday delayed handing down its rulings in the case of 11 prominent human rights activists on trial for terror-related charges and adjourned proceedings until April. During the court session, the activists asked to be acquitted of charges of belonging to or aiding terror groups.

Anne Sacoolas admitted to driving on the wrong side of the road when she collided with 19-year-old Harry Dunn in August, but she claimed immunity and fled to the United States.

Philip Manshaus was overpowered inside the Al-Noor Islamic Center mosque in suburban Oslo in August. He fired six shots but didn't hit anyone.

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“Fantastic Women,” the terrific new show at the Schirn exhibit hall in Frankfurt features 260 works of 34 artists from 11 countries, and is billed as the largest-ever exhibit dedicated exclusively to female surrealists.

Saturday's announcements are the latest example of how the tentacles of the virus can spread across multiple borders.

Under a 2016 agreement between the European Union and Turkey, Lesbos and four other islands have been used as natural barriers for migrants and refugees trying to reach the mainland of EU member Greece.

The Air Force has awarded a $425 million contract to improve bases in the Kaiserslautern area and at Spangdahlem to half a dozen U.S. and German companies, officials said.

The U.S. military in the Kaiserslautern and Baumholder areas ordered most base facilities to be closed Monday.

Lithuania’s “Kauno Diena” newspaper said a false story, which appeared Friday, was the work of hackers and was visible for about 10 minutes before being taken down.

Ground troops based overseas with tanks and artillery are better at preventing conflict than their light infantry counterparts, a study said after examining more than 70 years of military deployments.

Soldiers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade are deploying to the Middle East, a brigade spokesman said Monday.

The U.S. and Taliban have agreed in principle to a “seven-day reduction in violence” in Afghanistan, which could lead to a peace deal to end 18 years of war in the country, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday at the end of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.

A partial power failure during bad weather caused an F-16 fighter jet from Spangdahlem Air Base to crash last fall during a routine training flight, the Air Force said Tuesday.

Afghanistan on Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of the last Soviet soldier leaving the country. This year's anniversary came as the United States negotiates its own exit after 18 years of war, America's longest.

Brig. Gen. Mark R. August, head of the 86th Wing at Ramstein Air Base, has been selected for a Pentagon assignment with responsibility for acquiring critical aircraft within the service’s fleet.

As Russia prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up his defense of Josef Stalin and digging in against calls to open up secret archives on the Soviet state's killing of millions of its own citizens.

Europe needs to strive for better relations with Russia in the long term, French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday, adding that while he isn't proposing lifting sanctions they have changed nothing about Russia's behavoir.

Airman Alexander L. Driskill had earlier pleaded guilty to charges related to possessing and viewing pornographic animation that depicted underage girls.

The Met Office, Britain's national weather service, issued over 250 flood warnings for England, Scotland and Wales.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is not without risk but "looks very promising."

Germany's president criticized the U.S. administration at a security conference on Friday for appearing to reject "even the idea of an international community."

Swiss authorities said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into allegations a Zug, Switzerland-based maker of encryption devices was a front operated by the CIA and West German intelligence that enabled them to break the codes of the countries that used their products.

Anita Lewinski was 15 when she was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She came back at 91 with her family — and a mission.

Aviano airmen got a boost in their living allowance this month, while most other service members in Italy will see theirs cut next month.

Poland and Lithuania each have agreed to dedicate brigades to a swath of land where U.S. troops also have been dispatched to strengthen allied defenses near Russia.

He's 95 now, and many of his Army comrades are gone. That makes retired Cpl. James W. Baldwin one of the last living black liberators, the African American soldiers who rolled into Holland in 1945 to fight the Nazis and helped free the Dutch from German occupation.

U.S. and Romanian soldiers deployed to NATO’s northeastern flank took a break from the finer points of strategic deterrence Wednesday, to the delight of dozens of singing kindergartners.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said allies decided in principle during a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels to boost efforts aimed at training Iraqi security forces.

A Russian man was charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with the brazen killing of a Georgian man on the streets of Berlin last year, in a case that has already prompted political fallout between Berlin and Moscow.

Europe just concluded its warmest January on record, coming on the heels of a toasty December and making the 2019-2020 winter season a contender for the warmest Europe has observed.

Soldiers at Rose Barracks in the sleepy German town of Vilseck have a new place to chill with the opening Friday of an on-base facility offering free Wi-Fi, TVs, games and relaxation.

“It probably doesn’t mean very much but I want to say I’m sorry and I hope you can find peace in your life,” Spc. Brian Hollenbeck said in court before being sentenced to 36 months in prison.

European nations have reported 47 cases of the virus in nine countries. France on Saturday announced the first death of a virus patient in Europe and outside of Asia, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist in Paris.

A team of U.S. award-winning documentary filmmakers pursuing a Holocaust-era story in western Poland could face charges of unauthorized excavation work, punishable by up to two years in prison, a Polish prosecutor said Friday.

European Union officials are seeking support from member states to have naval ships enforce the U.N. arms embargo against Libya, according to a confidential memo obtained Friday.

A container ship that is owned and operated by a German shipping group has been attacked by pirates off the coast of Guinea.

Nearly 60,000 people made the illegal crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands last year, according to the U.N. refugee agency, roughly double the rate recorded in 2017 and 2018.

The coronavirus case was detected in Mallorca, a popular vacation island in the Mediterranean Sea, Spain's National Microbiology Center said.

Scores of airmen hauled 5-gallon jerrycans, dragged dummies across a field, ran 3.1 miles, put together guns and took down a bad guy in the Amazing Wyvern Race.

Poland was scheduled to sign on Friday a $4.6 billion contract for 32 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, setting itself up to become the first country in Eastern Europe to fly the 5th-generation aircraft.

Vectrus, a Colorado-based company that provides base maintenance and operational support at various overseas military locations, did not respond to a request for comment about its decision to scale back at Incirlik.

Witold Pilecki was a Polish resistance fighter who voluntarily went to Auschwitz to start a resistance, and he sent secret messages to the Allies, becoming the first to sound the alarm about the true nature of Nazi Germany’s largest concentration and extermination camp.

A soldier convicted of sexually assaulting his sleeping mother-in-law three years ago is being tried again after an Army court tossed the conviction because of a possibly biased juror.

U.S. Army Europe investigators found no “imminent threat” to personnel after an intelligence report of a potential terror attack led to heightened security at U.S. bases in Germany during the weekend.

The airmen were found unresponsive at about 6:30 p.m. and pronounced dead 20 minutes later by emergency responders, officials with the 52nd Fighter Wing said in a statement.

Dogfights between the two NATO members are relatively commonplace and risky. Several Greek pilots have been killed in aviation accidents while intercepting Turkish jets in Greek airspace.

Michaela Olthoff signed up right away when she saw an unusual Facebook post in early January: Paint a portrait of a koala and help raise money for animals that have been severely burnt or had their habitat destroyed in the Australian bushfires.