An emboldened Russia has ramped up military offensives on two fronts in Ukraine, scattering Kyiv’s precious reserve troops and threatening to expand the fighting to a new Ukrainian region as each side seeks an advantage before the fighting season wanes in the autumn.

The U.S. Army in Europe has established a command-and-control capability with allies that could deliver a big battlefield advantage if it’s integrated worldwide, a top U.S. commander said.

Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer as Barcelona recorded its hottest June in over a century and the summit of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors.

Pentagon choices regarding what is taught to DODEA students and what is made available to them in their schools’ libraries fall under constitutionally protected government speech, school system attorneys contend.

A Danish national was tasked by an Iranian intelligence service early this year with gathering information on “Jewish localities and specific Jewish individuals” in Berlin, prosecutors said.

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region said that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it — one of four regions Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in September 2022 despite not fully controlling a single one.

Russia’s army has vast manpower and equipment advantages over Ukraine, but its progress has been slow and Russian military bloggers blame a culture of military corruption.

U.S.-led international peace efforts have failed to make progress on halting the fighting. Russian President Vladimir Putin has effectively rejected a ceasefire and hasn’t budged from his war goals.

Denmark is seeking to increase the number of young people in the military by extending compulsory enlistment to women for the first time. The change comes against a backdrop of Russian aggression and growing military investment across NATO countries.

A heat wave covered much of Europe on Monday, with a record-hot first day of play at Wimbledon and high winds fanning forest fires in Turkey.