April 9, 2025: In January Tripoli prison warden Osama Al-Masri Njeem was arrested and jailed while visiting Italy to watch Juventus play football. Two days later Al-Masri was released and flown back ...

April 1, 2025: Mirage-2000 fighters finally arrived in Ukraine during February of this year. Ukrainian pilots had earlier been trained in France to fly the Mirage aircraft. France only has about 40 ...

Iraq has been at war since 2003, when troops from the U.S. and Britain invaded to oust dictator Saddam Hussein. The invasion succeeded in less than 40 days, but resistance from irregulars and Islamic ...

Since World War II the main American airbase in the Pacific was on the island of Guam. This has turned Guam into a vulnerable target for long range Chinese ballistic missiles. Guam is still important, ...

Global defense spending reached $2.46 trillion in 2024. NATO members account for nearly half of global defense spending. Major Nation Defense Spending NATO spending is likely to continue increasing ...

Russian leaders were intensely proud of having the largest tank fleet in the world for over fifty years. While the Red Army largely disintegrated in the early 1990s, the army sought to keep as many of ...

American political and military leaders agree that European NATO countries should spend more for their own defense. To encourage that the Americans plan to remove U.S. forces from Europe and tell the ...

The United States has had military bases overseas since World War II ended in 1945. These included over 300 installations dispersed throughout 49 countries in Europe and Japan. There were 225 in ...

They are equipped to identify a ship by reading its mandatory transponder and track its movement through Singapore controlled waters. The drone’s electronics handles avoiding obstacles. Additional ...

Beijing coveted the DRC's mineral trove -- a global position of immense economic import. In 2006 and 2007, Chinese front companies began buying DRC cobalt, copper and rare earth mineral operations. In ...

That won’t mean much if the personnel shortage problem cannot be solved. So far at least 17 ships have been sidelined because no crews were available. MSC needs to fill at least 95 percent of its ...