These are the key events so far on Monday, March 21. Fighting Russia has shelled houses and a shopping area in Kyiv’s Podil district, killing at least four people, city authorities say. An official in Odesa says Russia has started using “unmanned aerial vehicles in urban areas”. Ukraine and its …

About six months after the U.S. ended its longest war, the outgoing head of U.S. Central Command hinted that U.S. involvement in Iraq is probably going to go on even longer. As the 19th anniversary of Operation Iraq Freedom approaches, there are roughly 2,500 troops still in Iraq, playing a …

Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down their arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged port city. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine …