Foreign Affairs

  Tel Aviv. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli police anti-terror unit are using a special simulation site to train and prepare for special operations. Maj. General (Ret.) Avi Mizrahi, who was the commander...

  Tel Aviv. Israel is worried from the constant flow of US made military systems to Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. The new source- weapons that the US armed forces have transferred to the Iraqi army. According...

Tokyo: In what is seen as further strengthening of US – Japan defence relations, the US military will help Japan monitor “unprecedented” Chinese incursions around East China Sea islands controlled by Tokyo but claimed...

  Kabul: Taliban said on July 28 that they would observe a three-day cease-fire this week during the festival of Eid al-Adha as Afghanistan’s president suggested the long-delayed talks between his government and the insurgents...

  New Delhi: In a significant development, Australia became the first country outside the South China Sea region to approach the United Nations over China’s territorial claims and development of artificial islands in the area...

    October of 1917, Russia had its first tilt towards communism. Lenin overthrew Tsars Nicholas ll and invoked Marxism and this paved the way for other communist revolutions in the world, In 1919, two years...

  Washington: More than three years after the newest -- and most expensive -- aircraft carrier was supposed to be delivered to the US Navy with 11 working weapons elevators, it has crossed the halfway...

  Washington: In a boost to the American defence industry, the US State Department has officially liberalised restrictions on exporting military-grade unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to foreign nations which the defence industry has been seeking...

Washington: An American F-15 fighter jet flew about 1,000 metres from an Iranian passenger airliner over Syria while conducting what it called a “standard visual inspection” of the aircraft, officials from US Central Command...

Tel Aviv. Israel and India will cooperate on developing techniques to identify the Coronavirus. A senior delegation from Israel’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDRD) is set to depart to India in the...

London: UK and US governments have turned to startups and inventors in a competition to adapt commercial technology solutions to answer pressing challenges in the military space sector. The two countries have jointly put up...

  Washington: The head of US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) hopes to have an active Aegis Ashore system in Guam by 2026 as part of a concept he calls “Homeland Defense System Guam.” Adm. Phil Davidson told...

Washington: In a strong bipartisan vote, American lawmakers on July 21 passed their US$740.5 billion plan for the annual defence authorization bill, including provisions for a hefty military pay raise next year, new restrictions...