Russia will strengthen its border with Finland if NATO's striking weapons are deployed in Finland, Viktor Bondarev, chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Federation Council, said Sunday.
2022-05-16 22:00Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinisto, held a phone conversation on Saturday and discussed Helsinki's intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
2022-05-15 17:48U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu spoke over the phone on Friday, marking the first call between the two since Russia launched the special military operation in Ukraine.
2022-05-14 18:32Africa has become the main target of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group by suffering 41 percent of all its attacks worldwide, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told a ministerial conference of the Global Coalition against the IS on Wednesday.
2022-05-12 17:35Sri Lanka's Defense Ministry on Tuesday ordered the country's armed forces to open fire on anyone looting public property or causing harm to others following a day of violent clashes.
2022-05-11 19:52Russia held its annual Victory Day military parade at Moscow's Red Square on Monday to mark the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.
2022-05-09 22:48Belarus will not participate in Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press (AP).
2022-05-06 22:28A sudden test of reaction forces has begun in the Armed Forces of Belarus, BELTA News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing the country's Defense Ministry.
2022-05-05 21:58African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) repulsed a deadly pre-dawn attack by the al-Shabab militant group on its military camp in the central Somalia town of El Baraf, local security officials confirmed Tuesday.
2022-05-04 22:01Russia will solemnly celebrate May 9, "as we always do," and the pace of the operation in Ukraine depends, first of all, on the need to mitigate risks for civilians and Russian troops, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
2022-05-02 20:04Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) expressed firm will to maintain the absolute superiority of the DPRK armed forces, the state media Korean Central News Agency reported on Saturday.
2022-05-01 09:57An Israeli man was shot dead late Friday evening in the West Bank city of Ariel, according to the Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's national emergency medical service.
2022-04-30 09:03The applications by Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be processed quickly should the Scandinavian countries choose to do so, the military alliance's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday.
2022-04-29 09:56Four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli missile attack early Wednesday on several sites near the capital Damascus, state news agency SANA reported.
2022-04-28 09:50UN peacekeepers are intensifying their security and protection activities in Mali's Menaka region in the face of increasing violence, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.
2022-04-27 11:11A grand military parade was held on Monday night at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), to mark the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
2022-04-27 00:23Four Katyusha rockets landed near a Turkish military base in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh on Sunday without causing casualties, a local official said.
2022-04-25 09:46The U.S. Navy has begun an investigation after three sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington were recently found dead.
2022-04-23 22:10Five African countries on Thursday resolved to deploy a regional force to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to fight a rebel insurgency in the country.
2022-04-22 15:20UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders to receive him to discuss steps to bring about peace following Russia's special military operation in its neighbor.
2022-04-22 00:45A trainer aircraft of the Nigerian air force crashed on Tuesday in the northern Kaduna state, killing two pilots on board, an air force spokesperson said on Wednesday.
2022-04-21 00:31Two soldiers were killed and two wounded Saturday while defusing a bomb in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala.
2022-04-17 22:11The United States is funneling hundreds of millions of dollars more in military assistance to Ukraine that includes "new capabilities", in an apparent escalation of the conflict in Eastern Europe.
2022-04-14 20:29UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday voiced grave concern over the recent escalation in Palestinian-Israeli tensions, said his spokesman.
2022-04-12 08:11Iranian lawmakers on Sunday demanded the United States provide a legal guarantee that prevents future U.S. governments from quitting a possible agreement aimed at salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), state TV reported.
2022-04-11 08:50The ongoing conflict between the Indonesian joint security forces and an armed separatist group has been heating up in the country's easternmost province of Papua, causing casualties.
2022-04-11 08:36British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday vowed to provide more economic and military assistance to Kyiv amid the Ukraine-Russia conflict after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
2022-04-10 17:21South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday visited the headquarters of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), the presidential transition committee said.
2022-04-07 15:11The United States, Britain and Australia announced Tuesday that they will cooperate on developing hypersonic missiles.
2022-04-06 17:12The imposition of new sanctions by the United States amid transparent negotiations in Vienna on the restoration of a 2015 nuclear deal indicates Washington's ill will and lack of seriousness in the talks, the Iranian government spokesman said on Tuesday.
2022-04-06 09:02Teams led by Nepal Army will be collecting waste on four mountains including Mt. Qomolangma, the tallest peak in the world.
2022-04-06 09:59Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree to approve the composition of a Ukrainian delegation for the talks with Russia over security guarantees, the Ukrainian president's press service said Monday.
2022-04-05 16:00Kim Yo Jong, a senior official of the DPRK, said on Saturday the South Korean defense minister's reckless rhetoric would worsen bilateral relations
2022-04-03 17:27A Russian parliamentary commission held its first meeting on Thursday, announcing the establishment of four working groups to investigate U.S.-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine.
2022-03-31 22:56Armed forces of Uzbekistan and India held a joint military drill "Friendship-2022" at the Yangiaryk combined training ground in the northwestern Khorezm region, the Uzbek Defense Ministry press service said on Thursday.
2022-03-31 22:48UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was saddened by the deaths of eight peacekeepers in a helicopter crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday.
2022-03-30 15:59Defense Services Asia 2022, a biennial defense and weaponry show, opened Monday in the Malaysian capital city Kuala Lumpur.
2022-03-28 23:29Russian and Ukrainian delegations will hold a new round of face-to-face negotiations on March 29-30, head of Russia's negotiation team Vladimir Medinsky said on Sunday.
2022-03-28 16:13Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has stressed that the country will further develop a "powerful strike means" to reinforce national defense capabilities, the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday, days after Pyongyang claimed that it launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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