South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast.
Ukraine is using US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicles in unorthodox ways and making an impact.
Vice Adm. Eduardo Santos discussed grounding the BRP Sierra Madre in the South China Sea to create an obstacle and disrupt China's territorial claims.
The US has restricted Ukraine from using its powerful long-range missiles to strike air bases inside Russia.
Senior figures in Israel's government have said it is closing in on its war aims of defeating Hamas militarily and the return of hostages seized on Oct. 7. After nine months of pummelling by one of the most powerful militaries in the Middle East, Hamas is much weakened from the force that carried out the cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Early in the war, Hamas propaganda videos showed well-drilled fighters in body armour and battle fatigues, their torsos wrapped with ammunition belts.
India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India's government said. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Thursday on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Laos, where they stressed the need for an early resolution of outstanding issues along the disputed Line of Actual Control, the long Himalayan border shared by the two Asian giants.
A Ukrainian commander said Russia will be forced to scale back its frontline assaults in under 2 months due to losses, and will switch to defense.
Russia intends to destroy dozens of US-built warplanes as soon as they arrive in Ukraine.
Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, the center of the country’s lucrative gem-mining industry. The ruling military council denied its Lashio headquarters had been taken over, and two town residents contacted by phone said fighting there was continuing.
Strike Fighter Squadron 105 was stationed aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and racked up a number of firsts during combat missions.
Ukraine said Russia is trying to make naval drones by learning from fragments of Ukrainian ones. A drone war expert said it's unlikely to help.
STORY: From above, it's clear to see that Tindal Air Base, set in remote shrub-land of northern Australia, was designed as a small airfield with fast jets in mind.Now, it's buzzing with new construction.The United States has quietly begun overhauling it...... constructing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of facilities there to support B-52 bombers, F-22 stealth fighters, and refueling and transport aircraft.The expansion aims to help U.S. ally Australia project power into the South China Sea, if any crisis erupts with Beijing.The Australian government also has its own program of new projects at Tindal...... spending US$980 million on hangars, a new airport terminal, and other facilities, which are near completion.Fiona Pearce is a Royal Australian Air Force Wing Commander."What we are moving towards is a multi-purpose base so we are going to be big enough to take any aircraft in the world and to park and fly every different variant of aircraft. So there's runway increases, fuel increases and a whole bunch of other facilities that are being worked on as well."Australia is the top overseas location for U.S. Air Force and Navy construction spending under 2024 and 2025 U.S. Congressional Defense Authorizations, totalling over $300 million.A few hundred miles north, a base in Darwin is also being upgraded with U.S. help.Tender documents show intelligence briefing rooms, runway upgrades, warehouses and maintenance hangars are in the works. U.S. Marine Corps have routinely trained in Darwin since a 2011 agreement between Canberra and Washington.Commanding officer of the U.S. Marine Rotational Force Colonel Brian Mulvihill says that's now evolved into a regional deterrence role of about 2,000 Marines each year, and future upgrades to RAAF Darwin aim to support specific needs of the Marines."The United States paid to have larger fuel storage put in place at RAAF Darwin in support of our aviation assets. As well as, that's done, and then the next project is to expand the parking apron for the MV-22 Ospreys to give them more space in and around the busy airport that is Darwin and RAAF Darwin."While remote locations pose challenges to sourcing materials and a workforce...... Indigenous Australian residents also have complaints about the new developments.Seventy-five-year-old Tibby Quall, is among several Traditional Owners who say growing demand for defense-related housing in Darwin has led to land-clearing of forests they want protected, while rising prices have pushed Indigenous families out of the city.While U.S. and Australian officials say they can visit sacred sites on the bases...Quall says his family has no real voice on how the land is used.
Russian and Chinese bombers flew together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, in a new show of expanding military cooperation that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday raises concerns. The flights Wednesday were not seen as a threat, and the bombers were tracked and intercepted by U.S. and Canadian fighter jets.
Indian soldiers and top brass gathered Friday in the remote Himalayan foothills to commemorate a battle fondly remembered among compatriots for imposing a humiliating military defeat on arch-rival Pakistan.The high-altitude confrontation began when Pakistan-backed militants crossed into Indian territory at Kargil, a remote and high-altitude outpost on the countries' shared frontier.
Bomber jets from Russia and China flew over the far east of Russia and the Bering Sea near Alaska on Thursday during a joint aerial patrol. Although not seen as a threat by the North American Aerospace (NORAD), US and Canadian warplanes intercepted two of the bombers. Russian and Chinese bomber jets carried out a joint patrol over far eastern Russia and the Bering Sea near Alaska, Russia's defence ministry said Thursday.It said "Russian space forces' Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers and the Ch
Three Chinese students are under investigation by South Korean police for allegedly illegally photographing a US aircraft carrier visiting the country, Korean media reported on Wednesday. The Chinese nationals were caught flying a drone towards Naval Operations Command (NOC) in the southeastern city of Busan on June 25 and are alleged to have illegally captured photos of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) which was docked at the base, Korea JoongAng Daily said. CVN 71, a nuclea
The U.S. Defense Department admitted that it spread propaganda in the Philippines aimed at disparaging China’s Sinovac vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a June 25 document cited by a former top government official earlier this month. The U.S. response to the Philippines was recounted in a podcast by Harry Roque, who served as spokesman for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The news agency was able to verify its contents with a source familiar with the U.S. response.
The remains of a teacher and four soldiers were found in an operation in Khan Younis on Wednesday.
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced the indictment of an alleged North Korean government-backed hacker for allegedly participating in a scheme to break into US hospital computer systems and extort them for ransom.
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons programme, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday. The hackers, dubbed Anadriel or APT45 by cybersecurity researchers, are believed to be part of North Korea's intelligence agency known as the Reconnaissance General Bureau, an entity sanctioned by the U.S. in 2015.
The Israeli Defence Forces announced on Thursday that they had found the bodies of five hostages killed during the October 7 attacks who have been held in Gaza ever since. Corpses of a kindergarten teacher and four soldiers were found during a military operation in Khan Younis, the main city in the southern Gaza Strip, where the IDF have launched new attacks this week. Those found are among the 120 hostages listed as still being held in Gaza. Israeli forces recovered on Wednesday the bodies of f