Critics say the move would help the Israeli military protect increased settlement activity near Palestinian population centers in the West Bank. By David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon David M.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia has begun constructing its first entirely new military base since the Soviet era in the village of Novaya Vilga near ...

NASA unveiled plans in March to develop a lunar base as part of its “Ignition” event that outlined the agency’s new direction in human spaceflight. The plans, though, were rather notional: a ...