Good morning! Start your Friday with SOFREP’s Morning Brief for May 23, 2025—your quick intel on defense and global affairs.

CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine (AP) — An exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine from their more than three-year war was ...

Depending on who you ask, a nuclear agreement between Iran and the United states is either a non-starter or almost a done ...

The Russian Security Council pointed out that during the forum, "high-level experts will, in a professional atmosphere free of politicization, discuss global and regional security issues that require ...

Iran and the U.S. have see-sawed between enmity and grudging diplomacy in the years since, with relations peaking when Tehran ...

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — The civil war in Myanmar, maritime disputes in the South China Sea and U.S. tariff hikes will top ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take “special measures in ...

Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their first ...

A report by the US Defense Intelligence Agency suggests that Russia has deployed an air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday expressed his gratitude for the European Union's adoption of its 17th ...

According to Ukrainian officials, Moscow fired a total of 273 UAVs at Ukraine on May 18. Over the last week alone, Russian Forces have fired 250-plus drones targeting Ukraine, mar ...

While rising U.S.-Iran tensions over Tehran's uranium enrichment jeopardize nuclear talks, three Iranian sources said on ...