Taiwan is seeing a surge of Chinese military planes near the island after a sharp drop in flights over the past two weeks had sparked discussions among observers.

A South Korean military transport aircraft bringing home 204 nationals from Saudi Arabia arrived in Seoul on Sunday evening, in the first airlift evacuation using a military plane since the conflict began in the Middle East late last month.

A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident U.S. Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. In a statement,

US Central Command said the incident that brought the plane down occurred in "friendly airspace" and was not the result of friendly or hostile fire.

A South Korean military transport aircraft is bringing home 204 nationals from Saudi Arabia, officials said Sunday, in the first airlift evacuation using a military plane since the conflict began in the Middle East late last month.

Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy