Foreign Affairs

Washington: US Air Force Maj Gen Heath Collins will pin on a third star and become the Missile Defence Agency’s (MDA) next director, according to the Pentagon’s general officer announcement on May 31. Collins...

Cape Town: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar June 1 said that the BRICS nations should approach key contemporary issues seriously, constructively and collectively. "The BRICS meeting is an important event in our diplomatic calendar...

Tel Aviv: Israel insists that Iran is bluffing its way to the bomb. The Israeli government told Washington that it does not give envy credit to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "The Iranians are...

Washington: A new US military aid package for Ukraine that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million and will include additional munitions for drones, US officials said May...

  Washington: The debt ceiling agreement negotiated between House Republican leaders and the White House would cap the defence budget topline at President Joe Biden’s $886 billion request for fiscal 2024, a 3.3% increase over...

Washington: The Pentagon has sent its new classified cyber strategy, which has been informed by lessons learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supersedes the department’s 2018 iteration, to Congress. An unclassified summary of the...

Tel Aviv: Israel is further strengthening its relations with Azerbaijan which shares border with Iran. Geographically, this makes it very important in the overall Israeli defence assessment. Israeli president Isaac Herzog will arrive in Azerbaijan...

  Tel Aviv: The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), under the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s DDR&D, along with the Israeli Navy and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems have successfully completed a series of multi-system and multi-tier...

  Ahmedabad: Delivering a talk on 'Modi's India: A Rising Power' at the Anant National University on May 27, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India faces a "very complicated challenge" from China and the Narendra Modi...

Tel Aviv: The navies of Iran, China and Russia performed a joint drill in close vicinity to the operational area of the US Fifth Fleet. This cooperation, according to Israeli source should turn on...

Tel Aviv: Only very special weapon systems may be capable of destroying the Iranian underground nuclear facilities. The US has such systems and in recent days Washington signaled that it is ready to use...

Washington: US Congressmen Ro Khanna and Michael Waltz May 23 wrote a letter to US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, urging him to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver a joint address...

Washington: The US Air Force says it is looking at ways to better control access to classified information, in the wake of revelations that superiors of the Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with...