UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday appointed Lieutenant General Mohan Subramanian of India as the new force commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
2022-07-06 10:21Three terrorists were killed as the Pakistani military conducted a clearance operation in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Saturday.
2022-07-04 09:55Two Canadian ships departed for a four-month deployment in the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic region on Operation Reassurance to enhance NATO readiness, the Canadian Defence Ministry said Sunday.
2022-06-27 18:47Iran and the European Union announced here on Saturday the resumption of international negotiations in Vienna in the coming days to revive the Iranian nuclear pact.
2022-06-26 01:06Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey's concerns over Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO were not responded to with any substantial steps.
2022-06-26 00:40The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has called on the Korean People's Army to "improve the absolute power and the military and technical edge," the official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.
2022-06-24 17:20The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional 450 million U.S. dollars' worth of security assistance, including four more advanced rocket systems, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
2022-06-24 11:38Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday expressed hope for the nuclear talks in Vienna to resume "in the near future," state TV reported.
2022-06-23 23:25Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Thursday repeated its call on the Japanese government to scrap plans to relocate a U.S. military base within the prefecture.
2022-06-23 20:32The defense ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) vowed on Wednesday to strengthen the bloc's centrality, unity and rules-based order for the benefit of the people in the region, said a joint declaration.
2022-06-22 17:28The 16th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) kicked off here on Wednesday, with discussions focusing on key challenges and security in the region.
2022-06-22 15:45The Security Council on Monday strongly condemned Sunday's attack against the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, which left one peacekeeper from Guinea dead, as well as Saturday's attacks near Gao and near Bankass, in which dozens of civilians were killed.
2022-06-21 09:57Six terrorists were killed in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Sunday, a military statement said.
2022-06-20 09:58The withdrawal of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) from the eastern province of Tanganyika is good news as it reflects an improvement in the security situation, said Bruno Lemarquis, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the DRC.
2022-06-20 01:06Amid the ongoing protests against the Indian government's new recruitment policy for armed forces, the defense ministry said on Sunday that the scheme would not be rolled back.
2022-06-20 00:57In its second bid to curb the ongoing violent protests over the new recruitment scheme, the Indian government on Saturday announced a 10-percent reservation in defense ministry jobs for new recruits.
2022-06-18 21:49Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has welcomed key confidence-building measures towards the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ethiopia.
2022-06-18 00:02Cambodia is ready to host the 16th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) on June 22 in Phnom Penh, according to a defense ministry's press statement on Friday.
2022-06-17 21:45A detachment of Russia's Pacific Fleet has entered the Philippine Sea, engaging in anti-aircraft training activities as well as those in search of submarines of a mock enemy, said the press service of the fleet Friday.
2022-06-17 15:50Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who currently chairs the East African Community (EAC), has summoned army commanders in the East African region for a meeting to finalize preparations for deploying a force in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which has faced decades of war.
2022-06-16 21:09Russian President Putin likely still wants to capture much if not all of Ukraine but has narrowed his tactical objectives, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl said on Tuesday.
2022-06-15 11:28Japan's Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Tuesday he expected a key military pact made with South Korea on sharing information between them would become smoother under South Korea's new administration.
2022-06-14 23:27At least 50 civilians were killed in an attack perpetrated on Saturday night by unidentified gunmen against Seytenga commune, Seno province, in northern Burkina Faso, the government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said on Monday.
2022-06-14 10:32Russia has asked the United States to explain its military biological activities in some post-Soviet countries.
2022-06-13 15:29Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), said his country faces a "very serious" security situation and needs stronger self-defense measures, the Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday.
2022-06-11 20:18Russian warships are conducting drills in the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is holding exercises in the same region.
2022-06-11 17:49"If they are handed over (to Kiev), we will draw appropriate conclusions, and deploy our weapons to strike at the targets we haven't hit before," Putin told the Rossiya-1 television channel.
2022-06-07 01:45The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired eight short-range ballistic missiles eastward, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Sunday.
2022-06-05 23:58The Russian military conducted a series of drills utilizing the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system under the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
2022-06-01 23:32Over the years, NATO, led by the United States, has wantonly waged war and flagrantly trampled on human rights, bringing countless bloody tragedies.
2022-05-31 19:25Russian troops have entered the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk after "very fierce "fighting, a Ukrainian official said on Monday as the special military operation approaches the 100-day mark.
2022-05-31 15:30Dozens of Palestinian protesters were injured on Sunday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in several West Bank towns and villages, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
2022-05-30 17:05Cyprus and Israel on Sunday kicked-off their "biggest ever" joint military exercise in the Cypriot air, sea and land territory, a Defense Ministry statement said.
2022-05-29 22:38The United States, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan "strongly condemn" recent ballistic missile launches by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the top diplomats of the three countries said in a joint statement on Friday.
2022-05-28 20:31The Turkish military launched an airstrike on the targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq in the wake of the killing of one Turkish soldier on Thursday.
2022-05-26 22:36The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired three ballistic missiles eastward, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday.
2022-05-26 00:15A total of six people were killed and five wounded Monday in attacks by militants of the Islamic States (IS) group in the provinces of Kirkuk and Diyala, a provincial official and a police source said.
2022-05-24 15:49The Defense Ministries of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia traded barbs on a border shooting on Saturday.
2022-05-22 17:41Russian forces have "completely liberated" the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
2022-05-21 16:30Two policemen including an officer were killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, police and rescue teams said.
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