[ad_1] Chinese and US defense officials had their first known formal contact since Donald Trump returned to the White House, in a meeting that partially coincided with Beijing conducting large-scale military drills around Taiwan. Military officials from the US and China held a maritime safety consultation in Shanghai on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a…
[ad_1] Beijing: China’s military on Tuesday announced it was conducting joint army, naval and rocket force exercises around Taiwan in a statement on the Eastern Theater Command’s official WeChat social media account. “These drills mainly focus on sea-air combat-readiness patrols … assaults on maritime and ground targets, and blockades on key areas and sea lanes…
[ad_1] An armed resistance movement against Myanmar’s military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people. The Karen National Union, one of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic armies, said in a statement that the junta “continues to carry out airstrikes…
[ad_1] Israeli military said on Friday it killed the head of Hamas’ military intelligence in southern Gaza. Jerusalem: The Israeli military said on Friday it killed the head of Hamas’ military intelligence in southern Gaza on Thursday. In a statement, the military named the Hamas leader as Osama Tabash. It said he was also the…
[ad_1] Jerusalem: The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen on Friday, one day after shooting down two projectiles launched by Houthi militants. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that it fired a ballistic missile toward Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said…
[ad_1] Beirut: Israeli air strikes on Friday targeted the military airport near Palmyra in central Syria, a war monitor said, reporting the latest Israeli attack in the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. “Israeli warplanes targeted the Palmyra military airport,” the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Since Islamist-led rebels overthrew Assad in…
[ad_1] Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday gave the final seal of approval to a massive spending package to build up the military and overhaul infrastructure. Worth hundreds of billions of euros, the so-called spending “bazooka” has been pushed by the likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose centre-right CDU/CSU won elections last month and…
[ad_1] New Delhi: Even as the Quad steadily strengthens its hold across the Indo-Pacific region, India may soon consider being a part of another key multilateral alliance that focuses on the South China Sea. The group in question is the ‘Squad’ – whose members currently include Japan, Australia, the US, and the Philippines. The group…
[ad_1] Cairo: Israeli strikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, health officials in the enclave said, and the Israeli army, which resumed attacks against the territory, said it targeted a Hamas military site in the north. Three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Sabra…
[ad_1] Donald Trump in late January banned transgender people from the armed forces. Washington: A US federal judge on Tuesday suspended the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, citing the principle of equality. Referencing the US Declaration of Independence, which states that all humans are “created equal,” the judge suspended President…
