Browsing: All news

With summer nearly over, many Ukrainian farmers have harvested much of their crop. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine was one of the world’s leading exporters of key foodstuffs, including wheat, sunflower seeds and sunflower oil, barley, and other grains. Despite the war, this past summer was productive.

But while the country’s agriculturalists harvested most crops successfully, Ukrainian farmers face a major bottleneck: the closure of Ukraine’s Black Sea port infrastructure, through which most of the country’s food exports must travel.

Some Iranian leadership is being surprisingly honest about the dire state of the country’s economy, with one of the most senior security officials in Tehran warning that the Islamic Republic is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history.

Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, delivered the assessment during a high-level government meeting on Saturday, October 3, attended by President Masoud Pezeshkian and senior ministers.

U.S. Air Force Capt.

The Air Force Falcons emerged as the lone service academy winner in Week 5, defeating the Navy Midshipmen 14-9 in the opening matchup of the 2026 chase for the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy on Saturday afternoon. Later that evening, the Army Black Knights sustained a 31-29 road loss to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
All three academies found themselves in tightly contested games, with Air Force holding off Navy after building an early lead and Army mounting a late rally that came up just short in Ruston.

The U.S. and its allies’ recent efforts to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz appear to have hit a key benchmark. However, there are new reports that Iran is stepping up attacks on vessels in the area, indicating that the recovery is fragile and could be reversed.

According to data from the tracking firm Kplr, which Reuters cited, crude oil exports from the Middle East exceeded pre-war levels on four of the seven days in the final week of September.

The Irish Department of Defence has ordered two types of Thales air-surveillance radar under an agreement signed with France’s Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA).

After transforming modern warfare with aerial drones, Ukraine is going one step further, using unmanned ground vehicles in conjunction with aerial drones and electronic warfare to push Russian forces back around the strategically important city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine.

An offensive launched by Ukraine’s Third Army Corps in May, but only reported publicly in September, has reportedly reclaimed 176 square kilometers of territory in northern Donetsk Oblast, according to corps commander Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi.

A native of Wisconsin, Bob Schultz joined the Marine Corps and served aboard the USS California during World War II. Schultz plans to attend the 85th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December. In the lead-up to Veterans Day on November 11, 2026, the 104-year-old Schultz spoke with We Are The Mighty about his military service. (Edits were made for clarity.)
“The parts of my childhood that I remember were mostly unhappy, because it was the Great Depression. We didn’t have any money. My dad lost his job. We lost the house, and so I worked as a kid at a farm for 10 cents an hour.

Much of President Donald Trump’s appeal has always been his ability, or at least his promise, to rescue the American economy.

While the administration doubles down on the idea of a new American “Golden Age,” the American people are seeing things differently.

President Donald J. Trump attends the finale of the inaugural Patriot Games youth sports competition at SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio, Tuesday, August 11, 2026.

The U.S. Navy is seeking industry support for a major redesign of the mission planning environment used by F-35 fifth generation fighter squadrons, with the planned effort expected to run for five years and potentially be worth between $50 million and $100 million. The F-35 Mission Planning Environment is a ground-based component of the fighter’s wider mission-support architecture.

Josh Luckenbaugh, NDM
A new Army program inviting industry to co-invest in modernization projects that could provide both commercial and warfighting benefits has resulted in several…