Palestinian militants carried out a surprise attack on Israel Saturday morning, firing thousands of rockets and sending fighters into southern cities near the border with Gaza. Israel said it was ...

Ukraine's new incursion into Russia shows that surprise is still possible despite ubiquitous surveillance, analysts said. The Institute for the Study of War said in its update on Thursday that the ...

Despite nearly 1,000 U.S. troops in eastern Syria and presumably border-to-border surveillance of the country by outside powers including Russia and Iran, all failed to detect the attack or anticipate ...

The Brussels attacks make it essential that we retake Raqqa. Raqqa, like Mosul, is compressed against the Euphrates River. Daesh would therefore face three choices in a battle for the city ...

Being able to see the enemy preparing means neither side has made extensive use of surprise attacks that could make big gains. Instead, fighting has been attritional, with each side trying to ...

Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, an official body, said Ukrainian forces had launched surprise attacks against Russian forces in several locations ...

A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters says it has taken full control of Raqqa, ending three years ... while 22 were reportedly killed in the final attack on the hospital. Up to 300 militants ...