4+ hour, 17+ min ago  (139+ words) Sweden said Saturday it had scrambled two pairs of JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets a day earlier to intercept two Russian combat aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea near its airspace. The two incidents occurred on Friday in the southern and…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (103+ words) The Defense Post British forces on Sunday intercepted a sanctioned oil tanker belonging to Russia's shadow fleet in the English Channel, the defense ministry said. "In the first UK-led operation of its kind, the vessel SMYRTOS was boarded by Royal…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago  (350+ words) North Korea denounced on Saturday a joint statement by South Korea and the European Union that condemned Pyongyang's military ties with Russia throughout the Ukraine war. The statement, adopted on Wednesday during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's visit to…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (180+ words) Asia Pacific " Page 530 of 530 The Defense Post The U. S. military has not detected any change in posture of North Korean forces despite the politically charged rhetoric coming from Pyongyang, Chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford said on…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (317+ words) Palestinian and Israeli civil society groups urged support for a two-state solution, saying "the window of opportunity" was closing, as they met in Paris on Friday. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the most right-wing in Israel's…...

23+ hour, 59+ min ago  (233+ words) The United States and Iran have "never been closer" to a deal on ending the war in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday. "The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer," Araghchi wrote on…...

20+ hour, 45+ min ago  (492+ words) Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has called US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in protest after American strikes on three largely Indian-crewed merchant vessels off Oman killed three Indians, upping the diplomatic ante. The call came after New Delhi summoned…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (166+ words) A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded at least three others in southern Russia, a regional official said Saturday, with nearly 100 people fighting to extinguish a fire caused by the strike. The attack damaged port installations in the…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (234+ words) NATO said Friday it will cut troop numbers in its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo as the security situation has improved. The KFOR mission " currently 4, 600-strong " has been stationed in Kosovo since the end of the 1998-1999 war between ethnic Albanian separatist…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (351+ words) The United States plans to slash the number of fighter jets and warships it provides to NATO in Europe, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The reported cutbacks come as European nations race to bolster their defense capacities since…...