With Russia’s diminished influence in Syria, Ukraine calls on Israel to reconsider its stance and provide essential defensive weapons and technology.

With a month left in the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden has a long list of foreign and domestic policy actions he hopes to get done before president-elect Donald Trump assumes office, where the Republican is expected to try to reverse much of Biden's record.

Associated Press journalists have been covering these conflicts since they began. Now, as 2024 ends and a new year begins, we asked two veteran AP reporters — Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Samya Kullab in Kyiv — to talk about what they saw the past year and what struck them. Here are their accounts:

Ukraine, like the United States, is a volunteer society, and immediately after the war, groups sprang up around the country to bring supplies to villages and towns under shelling and help or shelter those who wanted to evacuate. The TrustChain has drawn on such groups.

Russia's president says he should've prepared more before launching his country's full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Geopolitical uncertainties increased in 2024 as tensions escalated in West Asia. Israel was involved in four conflicts in the region, including with Hamas in Gaza and Iran. Peace remained elusive in R

AI warfare may conjure images of killer robots and autonomous drones, but a different reality is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. There, artificial intelligence has been suggesting targets in Israel’s retaliatory campaign to root out Hamas following the group’s Oct.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden delivered a rare Oval Office address asking Americans to back assistance to Israel and Ukraine in the name of preserving democracy across the globe.

The THAAD antimissile systems were among the list of weapons that Ukraine requested from the U.S. in December 2023. Kyiv has appealed for the system to be deployed to fight against Russian aggression, although the Pentagon has rejected this prospect.

The weapon was first fired at Dnipro in Ukraine on November 21 in a response to Ukraine’s first use of Western weapons to strike deep into Russian territory. Putin said Russian forces were moving towards achieving goals in Ukraine and were taking control of territory.

German arms exports to Ukraine doubled, while halved to Israel, with Ukraine receiving 8.1 billion euros in weapons.

Building on Part 1 A Cultural and Spiritual Vision of Russian Unity, this essay examines Ukraine’s search for legitimacy. The first indication of Ukraine’s attempt to establish itself as a ...