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The fatal crash of a Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet late in August was what happens when pilot training has been rushed, a senior Western defence official has reportedly…
This decision comes after the new cabinet's commitment to increase defence spending to meet NATO’s 2 per cent GDP target, raising the annual defence budget by…
The Kremlin said on Wednesday, September 4, that Russia was adjusting its nuclear doctrine because the United States and its Western allies were threatening Russia…
There is a long tradition of Westerners resorting to India to find peace.
The head of the UN's nuclear agency on August 27 warned of the risk of a serious accident at a Russian nuclear plant because of fighting nearby between Russian and…
An unidentified object, which Polish news portal Salon24 reported the Polish military believed was a Russian Shahed drone produced by Iran, has entered Polish territory…
Ukraine's military has reported large-scale Russian missile and drone attacks across the country, including the capital Kyiv.
Ukraine has surprised the world with an impressive offensive into the Kursk oblast.
The Swedish Home Guard, the military reserve force of the Swedish Armed Forces, faces a soldier shortage after a wave of applicants realised what joining up would…
Germany is set to establish its first permanent military base abroad since the end of the Second World War.
Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow, the city's mayor said, with Russian air defence units destroying 11 of the munitions targeting…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday his country's assault on Russia's Kursk region showed that Kremlin threats of retaliation were a bluff, and…
Bohdan Krotevych, a chief of the semi-independent Azov Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, declared recently that Japan, Finland, Moldova, Georgia and Poland should use…
Croatia has said it will reintroduce compulsory two-month military service starting in 2025, local media is reporting.
The European Commission via Erasmus+ has funded four projects of the youth section of the Al Sharq Forum from 2021 to 2023 with a total of €110,279
Police in Ireland have launched a terror probe after a priest was stabbed outside an army barracks late on August 15.
British and French foreign ministers will travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to call for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and a de-escalation in…
For all of human history, waging war for territory has been the norm. Most, if not all, modern countries had their modern borders defined by war.
Following Ukraine's recent incursion into Russia's Kursk province, Moscow has stepped up its assaults on key energy targets across Ukraine.
Russia on August 12 evacuated civilians from parts of a second region next to Ukraine after Kyiv increased military activity near the border just days after its…
Peter Stano, the European Commission's lead spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security, has confirmed the bureaucracy's support for Ukraine's strikes within Russia.
A Ukraine invasion of internationally recognised Russian territory has sparked energy concerns.
Ukraine struck Russia's Kursk region with drones and rockets on Wednesday as part of what Russian officials said was a major attempt to smash through the Russian…
An exchange involving 24 prisoners has taken place in Turkey - the first since the last major swap between the West and Russia in 2010 of 14 prisoners.
Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary-General of the European Union’s External Action Service (EEAS), has been criticised after he posed for a group photo together with…
Ukraine has received its first F-16 fighter jets from the West, European politicians and news agencies have reported.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of 30 July morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group said, drawing fears of wider escalation…
Until now, Ukraine’s government has taken a maximalist approach to its negotiations with Russia.
A referendum will likely be required to end the war in Ukraine, Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said.
European countries including Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands are exploring ways to attract new recruits for their armed forces.
