In this case, Kiir’s regime has committed mass atrocities and continues to perpetrate crimes in Jonglei and Upper Nile States ...

As 2025 comes to an end, we at War on the Rocks reflect on the stories and events that our readers found most compelling in a year marked by fresh conflicts, long-standing rivalries, cutting-edge ...

Mechanized warfare is not dead. Observers have been debating this topic since the Ukrainian military and volunteers beat back the Russian assault on Kiev in 2022. The professional discourse that has ...

Moscow said a Ukrainian drone attack targeted a residence of President Vladimir V. Putin, which Ukraine denied, accusing the Kremlin of fabricating an excuse not to make peace. By Neil MacFarquhar and ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday said his nation is at war with the United States and Israel, as well as Europe more broadly. “We are in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and ...

Iran’s president declared his nation was in a “total war” with the US, Israel and Europe, just as Tehran looks to rebuild its nuclear capabilities and strengthen ties with Hamas. Masoud Pezeshkian ...

The US on Wednesday released its annual report on China’s military power — revealing that China will be prepared to invade Taiwan in a little more than a year as its fast-growing war machine poses an ...

Don’t be fooled by the anti-interventionist language. The Trump administration is only too eager to use military force. President Donald Trump signs an executive order renaming the Department of ...

Jan. 1 is marked each year as the World Day of Peace, a tradition begun by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and continued by every pope since. Across decades and vastly different global moments, each has insisted ...

NATO chief Mark Rutte and other European leaders have issued repeated warnings in 2025 about a possible Russian attack on NATO countries in the coming years. Some experts doubt Russia’s capability or ...