What is the significance of the Biden-Xi summit on Wednesday? In one line: two adult leaders engaging in serious, candid, private conversation about the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. What is the significance of the Biden-Xi summit on Wednesday? In one line: two adult leaders engaging in serious, …

Near Donetsk’s Avdiivka, Russian forces shift from tanks to infantry due to logistical issues and effective Ukrainian drone and artillery strikes as Russian armor struggles in Avdiivka’s mud, facing Ukrainian drones, mines. Today, there are a lot of updates from the Avdiivka direction. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. …

New rocket and drone attacks targeted US bases in Syria in the hours following the latest US airstrikes designed to dissuade the IRGC and its militias from continuing their attacks on American personnel. Bases used by the US military in Syria have come under four separate rocket and drone attacks …