[ad_1] China has conducted military “combat patrols” in the disputed South China Sea, raising the stakes in the disputed seas on the same day as the United States holds the first joint military exercises with the Philippines, Japan and Australia. Beijing’s surprise announcement of a naval drill on Sunday came a day after defence chiefs…
[ad_1] The small but strategically placed Maldives will strengthen its military to defend its vast maritime territory, the new president vowed on Monday after ordering Indian troops to withdraw from the archipelago. Mohamed Muizzu said in his first address to parliament he would turn the modest Maldivian National Defence Force (MNDF) into a modern military…
[ad_1] Russia said Wednesday that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. “On board were 65 captured Ukrainian army servicemen being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, six crew members and three escorts,” the defence ministry was quoted as saying by Russian…
[ad_1] Israel’s military announces its deadliest single day for troops since the Gaza ground invasion began with 24 soldiers killed. According to international media reports, the Israeli army said Tuesday that 24 soldiers had been killed in Gaza the day before, the biggest single-day toll since the start of its ground operation on October 27….
[ad_1] Ukrainian regional governor said Tuesday at least 16 people were wounded including two in critical condition after the latest Russian strikes using S-300 missiles hit a non-military area of Kharkiv, days after the attack that killed three in the same region. The missiles hit residential buildings, according to the city’s Governor Oleg Synegubov. The…
[ad_1] Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians are likely to flee Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia says it is prepared to take them in after Azerbaijan’s military victory last week in a conflict dating to the fall of the Soviet Union. About 120,000 civilians in the region in the South Caucasus will leave for Armenia because they…
[ad_1] Azerbaijan launched “local anti-terrorist activities” in Karabakh to restore constitutional order by disarming and forcing the withdrawal of Armenian military formations after six Azerbaijani citizens were killed in separate mine blasts in the breakaway region. Baku blamed Armenian separatists for the death of the four Azerbaijani police officers and two civilians. “Anti-terrorist operations in…
[ad_1] A group of senior military officers has gone on national television in Gabon saying they have seized power because elections held over the weekend were not credible. The officers, appearing on Gabon24 in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said they had cancelled the elections, dissolved all state institutions and closed the country’s borders….
[ad_1] Mali and Burkina Faso have dispatched warplanes to Niger in a show of solidarity against possible military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). A report aired on Niger’s state television highlighted joint efforts by Mali and Burkina Faso in support of Niger and the deployment of warplanes within Niger’s borders…
[ad_1] North Korea has fired several cruise missiles towards the sea to the west of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s military said, marking the second missile launch in apparent protest over the arrival of a nuclear-armed United States submarine at a South Korean port. According to international media reports, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff…
