KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday appointed his son as top commander of the military, a controversial move in a country where many have long believed Museveni is grooming his eldest child for the presidency. Museveni’s son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has recently been holding rallies around the country, in violation of a … Read more
Philippe de Gaulle, a longtime French naval commander who carried a family legacy as the eldest child of wartime hero and president Charles de Gaulle, but who described his famous lineage as both an honor and burden, died March 13 in Paris. He was 102. The death, at a veterans’ hospital, was announced by the … Read more
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said in a statement Wednesday that at least one of its staff members was killed and 22 were injured when Israeli forces struck one of its food distribution centers in southern Gaza. The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, saying it had targeted a Hamas commander. The Israel Defense Forces … Read more
DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — As U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) led a congressional delegation to western Ukraine on Friday, a 31-year-old Ukrainian drone commander sat perched in a muddy foxhole in the country’s east, scanning his laptop screen for Russian targets. Schumer and four other U.S. senators were in the western city … Read more
More insight on the biting problems with President Biden’s family dog Commander … the German Shepherd bit Secret Service agents on at least two dozen occasions. Commander is no longer living with the Bidens at the White House … but when he was, the Secret Service had to change their tactics as a result of … Read more
correction An earlier version of this article included a photograph and headline visible in web searches stating incorrectly that Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, would become Ukraine’s new commander in chief. The new top general is Oleksandr Syrsky, former commander of Ukraine’s ground forces. The article has been corrected. KYIV — Oleksandr Syrsky will … Read more
The Navy fired the commander of one of its guided-missile submarines Friday, the service announced in a statement Monday. The commanding officer of the USS Georgia sub’s blue crew — Capt. Geoffry Patterson — was relieved by Rear Adm. Thomas Buchanan, the commander of Submarine Group 10, “due to a loss of confidence in his … Read more
BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike killed an elite Hezbollah commander Monday in southern Lebanon, the latest in an escalating exchange of strikes across the border that have raised fears of another Mideast war even as the fighting in Gaza exacts a mounting toll on civilians. The strike on an SUV killed a commander in a … Read more
(Reuters) – The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed on Saturday to reach “the enemy” far and near as tensions soar on key shipping routes where Tehran’s allies have been attacking vessels. “Today, we are facing an all-out battle with the enemy,” said Guards commander Hossein Salami at a ceremony in the southern Gulf port … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — Ukraine’s top general on Tuesday called for mobilizing more troops, a rare acknowledgment of heavy casualties after nearly two years of war with Russia. In his first news conference since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny also conceded that Ukrainian troops have largely … Read more