The USS Gravely, a Navy destroyer, is making its way from Yorktown, Va. toward the waters off the Texas coast.

Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing fro ...

An official, who was given anonymity to discuss military plans, told Military.com that a second destroyer will deploy from ...

The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, is rarely far from the center of global tensions. A ...

Iraqi naval forces have seized an unidentified ship in Iraqi territorial waters in the Gulf suspected of smuggling fuel, the ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

The stop-work orders have affected approximately 90 of the company's 300 employees, with millions of dollars in unpaid invoices adding to the financial strain.

After 20 years of war, most of those killed in the coalition were American, but well over 1,000 of them were international partners. Article 5 is a core tenet of the alliance and dictates that an ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War. A new NCAA rule allowing CHL players ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the ...