CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix…
Read more ‘Deliver or Die’: Inside the Drug-Boat Crews Ferrying Cocaine to the U.S.It was a pre-Thanksgiving afternoon that few Americans could have imagined: U.S. troops defending themselves in a gunfight in the streets of the American capital. A witness took…
Read more Exclusive | Witness Photos Captured Attack on the National GuardThe fire spread at an astonishing pace. It started Wednesday afternoon. When Ho Wai-ho and his fellow firefighters arrived at the scene about 10 minutes later, the blaze…
Read more The Deadly Mix of Factors That Made a Hong Kong High-Rise Fire so DevastatingHASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along…
Read more ISIS Prisons and Camps Are Festering in a Fragile Syria as Aid Peters OutPresident Trump has said he wants Ukraine to agree to a 28-point peace plan by Thanksgiving. The problem for Kyiv is that many of the points cross their…
Read more Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, AnnotatedFor more than two decades, a loose-knit group of Venezuelan generals and senior officials has enabled the shipment of thousands of tons of cocaine to the U.S. and…
Read more The Web of Venezuelan Generals Accused of Fueling the Cocaine TradeTwo years on, Israel’s war in Gaza might be finally drawing to a close. The conflict built an unprecedented arms pipeline from the U.S. to Israel that continues…
Read more The Gaza War Has Been Big Business for U.S. CompaniesESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold. But…
Read more Alaska’s New Mining Rush Chases Something More Coveted Than GoldA detachment of Israeli engineering troops was demolishing tunnels behind the withdrawal line in Gaza last month when Hamas militants sprang from a hidden shaft, fired an antitank…
Read more Hundreds of Hamas Fighters Are Stuck in Tunnels in Israeli-Controlled GazaNAGOYA, Japan—The tourists who crowd the bullet trains from Tokyo tend not to disembark at Nagoya as they speed along the so-called Golden Route linking the Japanese capital…
Read more Japan Is Overrun With Tourists. This City Wants More.The Lebanese militant group is rebuilding its battered ranks and armaments, defying the terms of the cease-fire and raising the possibility of renewed conflict with Israel. Omar Abdel-Baqui…
Read more Hezbollah Is Rearming, Putting Cease-Fire at RiskHurricane Melissa has strengthened to a Category 5 storm and is expected to produce catastrophic floods and heavy infrastructure damage in Jamaica. Flash floods are projected to sweep…
Read more Hurricane Melissa Barrels Down on Jamaica as Category 5 StormStartups from Silicon Valley to Europe and beyond are racing to develop cheap, reliable systems to counter hostile drones. Bertrand Benoit Source link
Read more Drone Threats Ignite Burst of Counterdrone WizardryWASHINGTON—The Tomahawk cruise missile that President Trump is considering for Ukraine has been the weapon of choice for decades for U.S. presidents seeking decisive military solutions. A highly…
Read more Ukraine Wants Tomahawks. Trump Has to Decide if They Would Help End the War.BUENOS AIRES—When he ran for president of Argentina, Javier Milei compared the country’s currency to excrement, telling Argentines to forget the peso and vowing to scrap it altogether.…
Read more Milei’s Radical Overhaul of Argentina Meets Its Match in the Humble PesoABOARD THE MV NUNALIK—Greenland lurked in the distance as Capt. Donald Gibson rushed to the bridge of his cargo ship amid a sudden Arctic storm. Snow lashed against…
Read more Inside the West’s Race to Defend the ArcticBy Oksana Grytsenko and Jane Lytvynenko | Photography by Emanuele Satolli for WSJ MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—Yaroslav Pavlivskiy waved his hands as he sprang from his car, pleading for mercy…
Read more Russian Drones Turn the Streets of Kherson Into a Civilian Kill ZoneThe pro-Palestine activists and others aboard the flotilla of boats heading for Gaza were off the coast of Crete when their marine radios crackled to life in the…
Read more Israel, Gaza Aid Flotilla Brace for a Confrontation at SeaRussia, not long ago a rising military force in Africa, is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent. The Kremlin’s new official guns-for-hire military force, the…
Read more Russia’s Ambitious Plans in Africa Are UnravelingDenmark said it had suffered a hybrid attack by a professional actor after drones were observed over several airports late on Wednesday, the second time in less than…
Read more Denmark Says New Drone Flights Over Military Base, Airports Are ‘Hybrid Attack’