The global arms industry continues to grow with total sales up 4.6% last year, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday.

here are “no signs of life” on New Zealand’s White Island after a monster volcano erupted there Monday, officials said.

A Taliban suicide bomber Monday detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a military base in southern Afghanistan, killing at least nine soldiers and injuring several others.

urkey deported 11 French citizens over links to the Daesh terrorist group, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting the country’s Interior Ministry on Monday.

A volcano erupted Monday on a small New Zealand island frequented by tourists, and a number of people were missing and injured after the eruption.

volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, faces a formidable test as he tries to negotiate an end to the war with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine at a summit with Vladimir Putin in Paris on Monday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper urged Turkey on Monday to stop holding up support for a NATO defense plan for the Baltics and Poland, as Ankara presses the alliance to support its fight against U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia in Syria.

A senior Trump administration official confirmed Monday it has released $105 million in military aid to Lebanon after it was delayed for months without explanation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that he talked with United States President Donald Trump about the possible annexation of the Jordan Valley, suggesting that Washington was open to the move.

China retaliated against the US Monday by suspending US Navy port visits to Hong Kong — but China has actually been rejecting port call requests from the US for months now, US Pacific Fleet told Insider.

The United States government on Monday said it may slap punitive duties of up to 100 percent on $2.4bn in imports of French Champagne, handbags, cheese and other products, after concluding that France’s new digital services tax would harm US tech companies.

US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested the possibility of approaching the Supreme Court to halt the impeachment inquiry initiated against him by the House Democrats.

Delegations of two Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad left the Gaza Strip on Monday for Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials

Iran continues to sell its oil despite U.S. sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports, the country’s Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri was quoted on Monday as saying by state TV, adding that Washington’s “maximum pressure” on Tehran had failed.

In an area of northwestern Syria supposed to be free of acts of aggression, on Monday at least 11 civilians were killed and 20 injured in Russian airstrikes, a local civil defense agency said

US President Donald Trump leaves on Monday for a NATO summit in London expecting to participate in the alliance’s meeting, while the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly been urging him to stay away from the British election campaign coming up later in December.