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The Ground Self-Defense Force conducts a live-ammunition drill at training grounds at the foot of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday.  | KYODO The Defense Ministry on Friday requested a record ¥5.32 trillion ($50 billion) budget for fiscal 2020 a s it stressed the need to beef up the nation’s defense capabilities in domains […]

Separatist UAE-trained fighters flash the victory sign at the eastern entrance to the key city of Aden on Thursday[Nabil Hasan/AFP] Separatists in Yemen regained full control of the country’s interim capital, Aden, on Thursday after they pushed back troops from the UN-recognised government, officials from both sides said. The news came as air raids hit Yemeni government forces […]

China has warned it will not ‘sit by and watch’ as unrest continues in Hong Kong [Damir Sagolj/Reuters] China rotated thousands of new troops into its garrison in Hong Kong on Thursday days before protesters planned to hold a march calling for full democracy after three months of sometimes violent demonstrations. China’s military will make […]

The Taliban on Wednesday said the group is close to finalizing the peace agreement with the US officials in the ninth round of their talks in Doha. A spokesman of the group, Suhail Shaheen, said on Twitter that the talks will continue today, Wednesday, as well, and that they are nearing to the final agreement. […]

AFP | In this file photo taken on August 26, 1944 US soldiers of Allied troops parade on the Champs Elysées Avenue in Paris, to celebrate the Liberation of Paris during the Second World War. In August 1944 ordinary Parisians rose up, led by Resistance fighters supported by workers, women and even priests to throw […]

National Force military firefighters stand in line to board a plane to Rondonia northern Brazil, to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest at the Military Air Base in Brasilia, on August 24, 2019. (AFP Photo) Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept […]

REUTERS Trump: France, Japan free to talk with Iran French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that G7 leaders meeting in the French seaside resort of Biarritz had agreed joint action on Iran with the aim of defusing tensions and opening new negotiations with Tehran. “We agreed on what we wanted to say jointly on […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un smiles after observing a test of what the North said is a “super-large multiple rocket launcher” on Saturday when it fired two short-range projectiles off its eastern coast. Yonhap Despite North Korea’s repeated missile threats, the South’s relevant government authorities remain silent without taking any proactive steps over the reviving […]

Popular Mobilization Forces Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi paramilitary groups on Wednesday blamed the United States and Israel for a series of recent blasts at their weapons depots and bases. In a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Egypt’s Ahram Online, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said the United States had allowed four […]

North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho rebuked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for complicating their nuclear negotiations, after the top U.S. diplomat made remarks that Washington would “keep on the sanctions that are the toughest in all of history” against the North. “It is misjudgment for Washington to […]