Foreign Affairs

The Hague:  European Union leaders have wrapped up a busy week for defence, endorsing a landmark plan to unlock a combined €800 billion ($866 billion) in European military spending, though some political fissures became...

New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Security Council’s work ranges from early warning to preventive diplomacy, from peacemaking to verifying peace agreements to protecting civilians, from negotiating ceasefires to helping parties implement...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has been invited to visit Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as part of India's efforts to strengthen cyber ties with these Baltic nations. This initiative comes in response to...

Tel Aviv: A military confrontation between the US and Iran looks today a very realistic scenario as Tehran rejected any possible form of negotiations with Washington. Iran's Foreign Minister said talks with the United States...

Tel Aviv: While Iran is galloping to the nuclear bomb, its economic assets are being disrupted by Cyber attacks. A hacker group called Lab Dookhtegan said it has disrupted the communication networks of 116 ships...

Washington: US “near peer” adversaries are “practicing dogfighting” in space to simulate orbital combat in yet another step up their wide-ranging effort to develop capabilities to deny, disrupt, degrade and/or destroy US space capabilities,...

New Delhi: During a recent meeting here,  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh urged his Dutch counterpart, Ruben Brekelmans, to halt arms supplies and military technology transfers to Pakistan, which India accuses of sponsoring terrorism. Singh emphasised...

New Delhi: In a boost to India’s nuclear development, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently emphasised the dynamic nature of India's nuclear sector during the Raisina...

Washington: The Pentagon attempted to reassure its international partners in the F-35 program that there is no “kill switch” on the stealth fighter jet that the US could use to render it ineffective —...

Tel Aviv: The US wave of strikes on targets of the Houthi rebels in Yemen continued on March 16. Reports from Yemen claim that at least 50 people were killed so far including some...

Tel Aviv: The Israeli Navy and Air Force are on high alert to act against any attempt of the Houthi rebels in Yemen to attack Israeli cargo ships in the Red Sea. This comes after...

Jeddah: Senior officials from Ukraine and the United States opened talks focused on ending Moscow’s three-year war against Kyiv, hours after Russia shot down over 300 Ukrainian drones. It was Ukraine’s biggest attack since...

The Hague: The German military continued its rearmament but still suffered from serious personnel shortages last year, a report presented to the country’s parliament showed. The paper also detailed the European power’s more assertive...