Foreign Affairs

Washington: Cuba has agreed to allow China to construct a surveillance facility on the island that could allow the Chinese to eavesdrop on electronic communications across the south-eastern US, sources familiar with the intelligence...

New Delhi: At a time of rising tension and uncertainty in the region, ASEAN Chair Indonesia announced on June 8 (Thursday) that the Southeast Asian bloc will hold its first-ever joint military exercise in...

New Delhi: In the coming years, China is going to be India’s biggest challenge and there is need to build a credible nuclear arsenal and have a rethink on the nuclear doctrine, was the...

Tel Aviv: Iran has renewed the harassment of merchant ships cruising in Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. The Israeli navy has taken "different steps" to protect Israel ships using these waterways as in...

Tel Aviv: The US is losing what was left from its presence in the Gulf region and that is causing big worries in Israel. "The Americans live in virtual reality. They don’t understands the...

New Delhi: US Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin-III will arrive on an official visit to India starting next week with an aim to expand defence industrial partnership. The US Defence Secretary will travel to New...

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...