Australia is boosting the number of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers it plans to acquire for the defence force as part of the far-reaching defence strategic review.
Russia has unleashed a major missile attack on Ukraine, smashing a nine-storey apartment block in the city of Dnipro, killing at least five people and striking vital energy facilities across the country, officials said.
Israel's military has fired missiles toward the international airport of Syria's capital Damascus, putting it out of service and killing two soldiers and wounding two others, the Syrian army says.
Twelve ships carrying grain have left Ukrainian ports despite Russia abandoning a UN-backed deal to guarantee exports from the war zone, suggesting Moscow has stopped short of reimposing a blockade that might have caused world hunger.
