The Biden Administration is moving forward with the controversial Trump-era $23 billion sale of F-35 and MQ-9B drones to the U.A
Foreign troops under NATO command will leave Afghanistan as part of the drawdown, following the United States suit. “Standing shoulder to shoulder, we have paid a high price in both blood and in treasure
Iran has begun enriching Uranium Hexafluoride to the purity level of 60% in newer generation of centrifuge machines at the Natanz nuclear facility and will accumulate the product next week, Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Kazem Gharibabadi, said Wednesday. “This will improve significantly both the quality and...
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) admitted that Sundays “act of sabotage” of Natanz nuclear facility had led a number of the centrifuge machines (used in uranium enrichment) going off-grid. In remarks made during the inauguration of Iran Quantum Technologies Center on Monday, AEOI chief Ali...
Turkey has reportedly frozen an $83 million deal to buy Leonardo helicopters after Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi called its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “dictator.” According to La Repubblica and Il Fatto Quotidiano, Turkish authorities have started to send "threatening signals" since there is no reaction from Rome
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Indonesia has started building marine combat force headquarters in Natuna Island, scene of earlier showdowns with Vietnam and China. The headquarters of the Marine Combat Force of the First Fleet Command will be part of the Combat Operations Executive Command in western Indonesia
An Iranian “cargo vessel” used by its Revolutionary Guards suffered damage of an unknown nature when mines attached to its hull exploded on Tuesday. Named Iran Saviz (MV Saviz), the vessel provides logistics support to the Iranian commandos deployed to escort trade vessels in the Red Sea
Philippine fighter aircraft flying over Chinese fishing boats “taking shelter from the weather” near a Chinese reef in the South China Sea are inappropriate, and might inflame tensions and risk accidents, Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times has claimed. However, Philippines has said the so called fishing boats are “trespassing” in seas within Manilas exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
Taiwan deputy to the National Peoples Congress (NPC) Cai Peihui has proposed to allow youth from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to join the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Cai came up with the proposal after he learned that some Hong Kong young people who live in the Chinese mainland with their parents want to apply to military academies and “join the PLA to fulfill their duties as citizens and contribute to the country's national defense,” Chinese government-owned
Yemen's Houti rebels attacked Dhahran Air Base used by the Royal Saudi Air Force soon after a pair of U.S