Wars and military conflicts articles
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Conflicts push global military spending to all-time high: report
Global military expenditure saw its steepest increase in over a decade in 2023, reaching an all-time high of $2.4 trillion as wars and rising tensions fuelled spending across the world, researchers said Monday. Military spending rose across the globe with particularly large increases in Europe, the Middle East and Asia,
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Trump says Israel's war with Hamas could end up in a global conflict
At a Friday press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, former president Donald Trump suggested that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza could escalate into a world war."What's going on in Israel could end up in a world war," Trump said.Trump then continued by criticizing President Joe Biden, saying he "doesn't know what the hell he is doing." console.log("2390 BODY2. CatId is:"+catID);if(catID==120){ console.log("2390 BODY. YES for anyclip script"); var script =...
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Russia's Military Is Recruiting Female Prisoners for Ukraine War: Kyiv
A top Ukrainian official said Russia has been actively recruiting women from penal colonies to fight in its war with Ukraine.Andriy Yusov, spokesman for Ukraine's military intelligence service (GUR), told the Kyiv Post in a story published on Friday that Moscow's forces have been using the female convicts for active battlefield duty."We are not only talking about auxiliary units, but combat units as well, if needed," Yusov said.Newsweek could not independently verify the claims made by Yusov,...