Twenty-eight peacekeepers were killed and 165 wounded in Mali in 2021, according to the United Nations.
2021-12-17 14:57Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Thursday discussed in Cairo with the visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi the nuclear issues in Iran and Israel, according to the AL's statement.
2021-12-16 23:52The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to pass a roughly 770-billion-U.S.-dollar defense spending bill for fiscal year 2022.
2021-12-16 15:30The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) continues to provide military assistance to Ukraine, which only escalates the internal conflict in the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
2021-12-16 15:00The United States and the European Union (EU) must return to a full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
2021-12-15 14:57The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will halt talks with the United States over a 23-billion-dollar weapons contract that includes buying the advanced F-35 fighter jets, the Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday.
2021-12-15 08:13U.S. Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22), which hit a sea mount in the South China Sea in October, pulled into San Diego Sunday morning after transiting from Guam, U.S. media reported Monday.
2021-12-14 16:02Russia will face "strategic and massive consequences" if it decides to attack Ukraine, warned the French foreign ministry on Wednesday.
2021-12-09 15:44India's Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and 12 others including his wife were killed and one was injured on Wednesday in a helicopter crash in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, officials said.
2021-12-08 22:20Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to New Delhi, India on Monday signed an agreement for the procurement of over 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles with Russia, officials said.
2021-12-06 23:16Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel was honored here on Thursday evening with a military grand tattoo ceremony, the most solemn ceremony of the German armed forces.
2021-12-03 21:25South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday held their annual military talks in Seoul, according to the South Korean defense ministry.
2021-12-02 23:03Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on coordinated efforts for economic uplift of the people of Afghanistan, an army statement said on Tuesday.
2021-12-01 00:55The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said that Iran is determined to advance with its "peaceful" nuclear program while cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.
2021-11-27 16:03Two soldiers were killed as a group of terrorists attacked a military check post in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, a Pakistani army statement said on Wednesday.
2021-11-24 21:27Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has had a number of "direct battles" with the U.S. forces in the Gulf, in which nine of its forces have been "martyred," Alireza Tangsiri, the navy commander of the IRGC, announced on Sunday.
2021-11-21 19:43Boeing announced on Thursday that the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) accepted the first of five Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft that will be operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF).
2021-11-19 16:40Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's housekeeper has been arrested and charged with offering an Iran-affiliated hacker group to spy on Gantz, Israeli security officials said Thursday.
2021-11-18 23:25A Palestinian man was killed on Tuesday morning by Israeli soldiers during clashes near the northern West Bank city of Tubas, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
2021-11-16 20:14EU and NATO member Poland on Monday said it had repelled an attempt by hundreds of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, to "illegally cross" the border from Belarus. Thousands more were on the way, said a government spokesman who suggested that some might come with weapons.
2021-11-12 23:30UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday appointed Maj. Gen. Patrick Gauchat of Switzerland as head of mission and chief of staff of the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), which was founded in 1948 for peacekeeping in the Middle East.
2021-10-29 10:50Syria on Thursday reaffirmed its support for the one-China principle, condemning U.S. interference in China's internal affairs.
2021-10-29 09:53The Afghan Taliban have assured that no terrorist organization will be allowed to use the Afghan soil for carrying out terror activities against Pakistan, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said here on Thursday.
2021-10-22 14:40Russia-China relations are "not directed against anyone," and are in the interests of both countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday in Sochi.
2021-10-22 08:24UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland told the Security Council on Tuesday that no progress has been made towards the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
2021-10-20 10:07Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and visiting U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met here on Tuesday to discuss ways to deepen practical cooperation between Kiev and Washington in the field of security and defense, the Ukrainian presidential press service said.
2021-10-20 08:04The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a short-range ballistic missile into the eastern waters, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Tuesday.
2021-10-19 15:11The U.S. State Department's inspector general will review the end of the Biden administration's diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, including the emergency evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a spokesperson.
2021-10-19 09:08The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Monday that Moscow has decided to suspend the operation of the Russian Permanent Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in retaliation for the alliance's "unfriendly actions."
2021-10-19 08:07The latest round of Syrian constitutional talks, participated by members of the Syrian Constitutional Committee's Small Body, will start in Geneva on Monday, a United Nations (UN) envoy said on Sunday.
2021-10-18 15:19A Russian fighter jet on Sunday escorted a U.S. strategic bomber over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan, said the Russian Defense Ministry.
2021-10-18 10:13South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed Friday to accelerate diplomatic consultations between the two countries to resolve a protracted row over wartime forced labor, according to South Korea's presidential Blue House.
2021-10-15 23:00The Myanmar military called on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signatories to further cement the agreement and non-signatories to join the pact, Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing said on Friday.
2021-10-15 20:50U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias signed an amendment to the U.S.-Greece Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA), which has allowed for U.S. forces to train and operate within Greek territory since 1990.
2021-10-15 09:44Ukraine and the European Union on Tuesday signed an open-skies agreement that will establish a joint aviation space, the Ukrainian presidential press service said.
2021-10-13 19:38Kuwait on Tuesday allowed women to register for the military service, according to the Kuwait army.
2021-10-12 20:32United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed an intra-Libyan agreement on the withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign forces, said his spokesman.
2021-10-12 17:21Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the Ukrainian issue during a phone conversation, the Kremlin said in a statement Monday.
2021-10-12 15:31Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has said there are no grounds to believe the United States is not hostile toward Pyongyang, accusing Washington of raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
2021-10-12 15:24Discussions between the U.S. and Afghan Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar were "candid and professional," the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.
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