Foreign Affairs

Washington: The Pentagon is launching an effort to update professional military education for its new focus on competition with China. As the services away from the counter-terror asymmetric conflict doctrine of the past 20...

  New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s ‘Act East’ policy could be collateral damage of the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. The flagship policy seeks to strengthen India’s ties with Southeast Asia, and counter China’s...

Washington: The US Army is fielding a new body armor system, including the Modular Scalable Vest (MSV) and other items in the system which have purpose-built design features for female body types. When Maj. Melissa...

Kabul: Post-war Afghanistan, in the eyes of the Taliban, will be a law-abiding country, a member of the community of nations, open for business, and at peace with itself, its neighbours, and the rest...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that he did not have a clear answer on Sino-Indian relations though they “were at crossroads” at this point of time. We had the border conflict of...

  Tel Aviv. The recent fighting in Gaza does not reflect in any way on the type of war that may erupt, if the Hezbollah in Lebanon starts launching its missiles into Israel. Israel in...

  Tel Aviv. The Head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which works with the United Nations, said on Thursday that Bashar al - Assad's regime had used chemical weapons, banned by...

  Tel Aviv. The US is dramatically decreasing its military involvement in Iraq .This creates great concern in Israel. Israeli sources say that by this the last barrier for the takeover of Iraq by Iran...

Washington. The US pull-out from Afghanistan is speeding up, with military planners saying almost half of US forces and equipment has been sent home or destroyed. US Central Command  said the withdrawal is “between...

  Tokyo: The new head of the US Indo-Pacific Command held talks with top Japanese officials and reaffirmed their alliance amid China’s increasingly assertive claims to contested areas in the region, officials said. Adm. John Aquilino,...

  New Delhi: BRICS member states reaffirmed the need for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including its Security Council, to make it more representative, effective and efficient, and to increase the representation of...

  Tel Aviv. Israel is determined to act against the Iranian nuclear program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, "Israel will do everything to stop Iran from having military nuclear capability even if this causes...

    Washington: The Pentagon plans to increase investments in defensive cyber tech like cryptology, endpoint management, and zero-trust architectures to protect DoD networks in its 2022 budget, while cutting back on overseas “hunt-forward” cyber operations. The...