The 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team will deploy to Eastern Europe to replace soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Army officials said.

Rafael Mariano Grossi the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran next week as Tehran’s nuclear program enriches uranium a step away from weapons-grade levels and international oversight remains limited.

Ecuador is defending its storming of Mexico’s Embassy in Quito last month, with lawyers for Ecuador telling the judges at the International Court of Justice on Wednesday that it acted to take into custody “a common criminal” — Ecuador’s former vice president — who was holed up inside the diplomatic post.

Lawmakers are resisting plans by the Navy to cut the size of its ship and submarine fleet, rallying behind a push to procure an additional attack submarine and raising alarm about impending ship retirements.

South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik says his government is considering sharing advanced military technology with Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. through the so-called AUKUS partnership.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will stress the need for a rules-based international order when he attends a meeting of the Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, where he is scheduled to give a keynote speech at the OECD ministerial meeting on Thursday.

Drone footage shows months of Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine. Chasiv Yar is a strategic high ground, and capturing it would set the stage for a potentially broader Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine that Ukrainian officials say could come as early as this month.

Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against activists and journalists following a BBC report that alleged security forces “sexually assaulted and killed” Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who was protesting the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022.

Beijing’s state-controlled propaganda units are forging ties with Chinese tech companies, including the sister company of popular e-commerce firm Temu, in what researchers say is likely a coordinated effort to gather targeted data on foreign users that can be used to bolster misinformation campaigns and other state propaganda work abroad.

The Islamic State, in a statement posted on its Telegram website, said one of its members attacked a “Shiite temple” with machine-gun fire, claiming responsibility for an attack that targeted members of the country’s minority Shiite community inside a mosque in western Afghanistan that killed six people.