Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on US troops occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a US base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a US counter-strike said to have killed at least 19 people.
Russia awards state honors to the pilots involved in the US drone incident, despite denying involvement, while the US called Russia's actions "reckless."
The Pentagon has released a video showing a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a US surveillance drone in international airspace over the Black Sea, causing damage to the drone's propeller.
A Chinese rocket's second stage that launched three military surveillance satellites in June broke up over Texas with a debris field that could be several hundred miles long.
The US Navy's "doomsday plane," the E-6B Mercury, has landed in Iceland to conduct operations in the US European Command zone, amid rising tensions with Russia over the suspension of the New START nuclear treaty.
