Foreign Affairs

Warsaw: Poland’s Ministry of National Defence has signed a contract to buy 72 K239 Chunmoo multi-barrelled missile launchers from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace for roughly $1.6 billion, the company said in a statement. The deal...

Paris: France’s synchronised test firing of naval cruise missiles from a surface ship and a submarine 400 kilometres apart adds a land-attack capability for European navies that may be more difficult for air defences...

New Delhi: In a development that could have security implications for India, China is building a road in a part of illegally occupied Kashmir close to the Siachen Glacier – touted as the world’s...

New Delhi: As co-chairs of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)'s Governing Council and Executive Committee from 2022 to 2024, India and the United States have collaborated to establish disaster-resilient infrastructure around the...

Moscow: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a bilateral meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and both sides reviewed progress in bilateral cooperation and discussed important issues of mutual interest. Doval held the...

New Delhi: India April 25 firmly rejected the US State Department report on Human Rights in India, which mentioned “significant human rights abuses” during the violence that broke out in Manipur last year and...

Manila: American and Filipino forces launched their largest combat exercises in years on April 22 in a show of allied firepower near the disputed South China Sea that has alarmed Beijing. The annual exercises...

London: The British government has pledged to significantly increase spending on weapons for Ukraine as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak starts a two day visit to Germany and Poland. A £500 million ($620 million) package of...

Fort Novosel (USA). With more than a dozen US aviators killed in helicopter crashes in the first half of fiscal 2023, it has prompted an aviation-wide stand down in April 2023. The US Army, after a...

Christchurch: As part of its modernisation effort of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China has disbanded and replaced its Strategic Support Force, a pivotal component of the PLA. The Strategic Support Force, or SSF,...

Abu Dhabi, UAE: EDGE, one of the world’s leading advanced technology and defence groups, welcomed Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Hungarian Minister of Defence, yesterday as part of an official visit to EDGE’s headquarters and facilities in Abu...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) now has launched a new system of information warfare, called the Information Support Force (ISF), said Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence, on Friday 12...

Paris: Belgium postponed the deployment of the frigate Louise-Marie to the Red Sea for “an indefinite period of time” after the vessel failed a number of technical tests during training, the country’s Defence Ministry...