The attack comes amid fears of a return to conflict following clashes between government troops and Tigrayan forces.

As Ukraine assesses damage from recent Russian drone attacks, officials are praising Elon Musk for stripping Russia of one of its tools of attack: Starlink internet service.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

The attacks came just hours after the army said it had broken a siege on the city that had lasted for years, News.Az reports, citing Xinhua. The

Reports indicate a second Iranian drone has been destroyed near the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group in the Arabian Sea, only hours after the first confirmed shootdown. Tracking data suggests the aircraft—believed to be a Shahed-129 or Shahed-139—approached close to the carrier’s position before being intercepted,

The pairing of fully autonomous drone strikes and dehumanizing imagery can undermine public support for military action, even when necessary.

"We have ships ‌heading to Iran ​right ‌now, big ‍ones ... and ⁠we have talks going on with ​Iran," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We'll see how it works out." (Reporting by Steve ​Holland,

Iran has tentatively agreed to resume nuclear talks with the United States as it tries to avert the threat of further military strikes, in what would be the first such negotiations since the Trump administration bombed three of Iran’s nuclear sites last summer.