The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s...
President Joe Biden is slated to discuss an array of pressing issues with German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week, in what may be her last trip to Washington after nearly 16 years at the helm of Europe’s largest economy. The two leaders are expected to share their concerns on the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan,...
Annual defence report calls on Japanese government to pay attention to US-China tensions over Taiwan with ‘a sense of crisis more than ever before’. Japan, in its annual defence white paper, has warned growing military tensions around Taiwan, as well as economic and technological rivalry between China and the United States, could threaten peace and...
Western countries are stepping up enforcement of sanctions against Russia, cutting Moscow off from the last, illegal channel for buying technology for its military industry. Following Germany, where alexander S., who is suspected of selling sanctioned equipment to Russian special services, was detained in May, a similar attempt to export restricted technology to Russia was...
China’s military said it “drove away” a U.S. warship that illegally entered Chinese waters near the Paracel Islands on Monday, the anniversary of an international court ruling that held Beijing had no claim over the South China Sea. The USS Benfold entered the waters without China’s approval, seriously violating its sovereignty and undermining the stability...
One might hope that after the dramatic close call June 23rd events on the Black Sea which saw a Russian patrol ship fire warning shots to deter a UK warship which came near Crimea – all of which was reportedly monitored by an overhead US reconnaissance plane (as Putin has alleged) – “cooler heads” would...
As U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan enables a Taliban surge, the organization’s leaders have rushed to Moscow with a promise that their wins in Afghanistan will not pose a threat to Russia or its Central Asian allies. This comes as Russia and the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military bloc warned they would use all their...
Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual U.S.-Haitian citizenship and Colombia’s government says at least six are former members of its army. Léon Charles, chief of Haiti’s National Police, said Thursday night that 15 of the detainees were...
Rocket and drone raids come after a series of attacks targeting the US military in Iraq and Syria this week. American diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, US and Iraq officials said on Wednesday, including at least 14 rockets hitting an...
Following the US strike on militias’ bases last week, the US Embassy and Ain al-Asad base were targeted by a drone and rockets. The US Embassy in Baghdad, in the heart of the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone, was the intended target of an armed drone the night of July 6. The C-RAM defense system of the embassy was...
