Ten members of Taliban militants surrendered to the government in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said on Tuesday.
2018-02-06
India test-fired its surface-to-surface nuclear capable Agni-I (A) ballistic missile off Abdul Kalam Island in its eastern sate of Odisha Tuesday, local media reported.
2018-02-06
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday reiterated the Japanese government's commitment to relocate a controversial U.S. air base within Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, amid rising antipathy on the island due to a recent spate of U.S. military-linked mishaps.
2018-02-05
The Afghan government has increased air strikes against armed groups' oppositions and 37 militants have been killed since Saturday, officials said Monday.
2018-02-05
The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected the U.S. claims about the Syrian government using chemical weapons in the war as "lies."
2018-02-04
Israeli troops apprehended several additional suspects for investigation in hunt for the killers of Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the West Bank village of Burqin on Saturday.
2018-02-04
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will stop by the northwestern U.S. state of Alaska on Monday before continuing his journey to South Korea, where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 9, local TV reported Saturday.
2018-02-04
Massive Russian air strikes have killed at least 30 militants in northwest Syria, where a Russian fighter jet was shot down, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement Saturday.
2018-02-04
A Russian pilot was killed after his warplane was targeted by the Syrian rebels in the northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, a monitor group reported.
2018-02-04
The Syrian army is only a few kilometers from a strategic stronghold of the al-Qaida-linked militants in the northwestern province of Idlib, a military source told Xinhua on Friday.
2018-02-03
U.S. Army researchers, in cooperation with university scientists, have developed new techniques to train robots or computer programs to perform tasks under the guidance of a human instructor.
2018-02-03
The Libyan coast guard has rescued 362 illegal migrants in three separate operations in western Libya, the Navy's spokesman said Friday.
2018-02-03
Remnants of a mortar shell from World War II were found Thursday at Philopappou Hill in the Greek capital, a city that has witnessed many battles during the chaotic times, local media reported.
2018-02-02
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Thursday met with his British counterpart Gavin Williamson at the Pentagon to discuss bilateral cooperation on issues of global concern.
2018-02-02
U.S. Pentagon confirmed Thursday that an interceptor missile missed its target in a test off the Hawaiian coast, according to multiple reports.
2018-02-02
It seems U.S. President Donald Trump is unshakable in his determination to nullify the legacies of his predecessor Barack Obama.
2018-02-02
Afghan security forces killed 20 armed militants in Taliban former stronghold Kandahar province over the past 24 hours, spokesman for Defense Ministry General Dawlat Waziri said Thursday.
2018-02-01
India on Wednesday launched the third of its six Scorpene-class submarines, named "INS Karanj", at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai city, said Indian Navy officials.
2018-02-01
A test of U.S. ballistic missile defense reportedly failed to intercept an incoming target in Hawaii on Wednesday.
2018-02-01
Algerian counterterrorism troops killed as many as 13 armed militants since the beginning of January, said a statement Defense Ministry on Wednesday.
2018-02-01
The US State Department said on Monday that a Russian SU-27 engaged in an "unsafe interaction" with a US EP-3 aircraft in the international airspace over the Black Sea earlier on the same day.
2018-01-31
An explosion targeted a Turkish military convoy in the western countryside of Aleppo province in northern Syria on Tuesday, a monitor group reported.
2018-01-31
An emergency text alert warning residents in the U.S. state of Hawaii of an imminent ballistic missile threat on Jan. 13 was a false alarm due to human error and inadequate safeguards, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
2018-01-31
Egyptian troops have arrested two terror suspects and destroyed 14 hideouts in the central part of North Sinai province, the Egyptian army announced Tuesday.
2018-01-31
The Syrian army dug out 45 bodies of soldiers killed by the al-Qaida-linked militants near a key air base in the northwestern province of Idlib, local media reported Tuesday.
2018-01-31
Japan's Air Self-Defense Force deployed its first F-35A stealth fighter jet at its Misawa base in northeast Japan's Aomori prefecture on Friday in a planned buildup of military assets that have been deemed constitutionally unsound and unsettling for regional stability, Japanese media reported.
2018-01-30
The U.S. State Department said Monday that a Russian SU-27 engaged in an "unsafe interaction" with a U.S. EP-3 aircraft in the international airspace over the Black Sea earlier on the same day.
2018-01-30
Russia became "more open" over the issue of deploying UN peacekeeping troops in Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas, the Ukrainian state-run Ukrinform news agency said on Monday, citing a U.S. envoy.
2018-01-30
Nearly 7,000 Ukrainian servicemen are participating in the Britain-led Operation Orbital, a training program for the Ukrainian armed forces, British Ambassador to Ukraine Judith Gough said Monday.
2018-01-29
UN peacekeepers are increasingly targeted by armed groups, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday.
2018-01-29
The Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) on Sunday officially received the final shipment of new Black Hawk helicopters from the United States, bring the total number to 12 of all aircraft received over the last nine months, the U.S. Embassy in Amman said.
2018-01-29
The Pakistan army said on Sunday that Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in disputed Kashmir region injured three civilians.
2018-01-29
A Palestinian dressed as an Israeli soldier was captured and arrested on Sunday after he attempted to enter an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, the army said.
2018-01-29
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that arms have been piling up in Syria under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State (IS) "although there were no jihadists left in the country."
2018-01-28
The Syrian talks in Vienna started on Thursday with an opening meeting between the government delegation and the UN special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura amid a new escalation over the issue of Syrian chemical weapons.
2018-01-26
The Nigerian Army Thursday said 11 suspects have been arrested in connection with a missing soldier in Opallo village of restive northeast Adamawa State.
2018-01-26
A pair of fighter pilots have become the first in the British military to fly the new F-35 Lightning warplanes straight from training, according to the Ministry of Defense (MOD) on Thursday.
2018-01-26
The Pakistani security forces arrested 20 militants during multiple operations conducted in southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday, the military said.
2018-01-26
South Sudan on Wednesday vowed to deploy military forces to stem rampant wave of child abductions and cattle rustling that are predominantly among rival pastoral tribes in the northern parts of the war-torn country.
2018-01-25
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson against the escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula by using aggressive rhetoric, including threats of a naval blockade, in a phone conversation Wednesday.
2018-01-25