Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-18 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF Manpower Directorate chief, Maj.-Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa released Lt.-Col. "A" from military service, the military confirmed on Thursday.
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[2026-09-18 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Yemeni government’s army said on Thursday that it targeted Houthi supplies and military positions in Taiz and Mocha in southwestern Yemen.
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[2026-09-18 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that Serbia had opened a factory to assemble advanced Israeli-made drones, which will supply the Serbian military and armed forces in other countries.
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[2026-09-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Without introspection and without self-critique, we, as individuals, as a society, and as a nation, cannot evaluate whether policies and priorities meet their goals, and we cannot know whether they are successful or not.
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[2026-09-18 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Houthis pose a threat to the region, and they have demonstrated their capabilities through their recent offensive along the Red Sea. A new report by Conflict Armament Research examines the sources of their weapons and highlights their continued close ties to Iran.
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[2026-09-18 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s missiles and drones have downed dozens of US aircraft, damaged or destroyed hundreds of the United States’ buildings at its bases in the Middle East, and drained its inventories of military equipment worth billions of dollars, the Pentagon conceded earlier this week.
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[2026-09-18 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Two sides have been discussing ways to improve communication channels, according to sources familiar with the talks
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[2026-09-18 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Two sides have been discussing ways to improve communication channels, according to sources familiar with the talks
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[2026-09-17 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan — More than 16 months after India and Pakistan fought a four-day air war, firing missiles and drones at each other, the South Asian neighbours came the closest since then to a military face-off — this time in the Arabian Sea.
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[2026-09-17 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Canada] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump himself has acknowledged the US need for Canadian aluminum – and has largely exempted metals from new tariffs
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[2026-09-17 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: China has privately asked Tehran to help rein in Yemen's Houthis after an appeal to Beijing by Saudi Arabia following the Iran-backed group's military blitz in the past week, according to three Iranian sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-09-17 21:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a press conference at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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[2026-09-17 21:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A Syrian military court on Thursday sentenced one defendant to death, another to 25 years in prison and a third to 20 years over deadly sectarian violence on Syria’s coast last year.
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[2026-09-17 20:43 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen is open to continue providing defensive military gear to Ukraine but is against sending money to the war-torn country.
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[2026-09-17 20:29 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-09-17 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An English village has overwhelmingly voted to “secede” from the UK in protest over government plans to house more than 1,200 male migrants at a nearby former military base. The referendum in Piddington, Oxfordshire has no legal force but drew nearly 92% turnout.
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[2026-09-17 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: European and Arab military chiefs are meeting in Paris to assess the Lebanese Armed Forces’ needs and discuss the looming end of the United Nations peacekeeping mission UNIFIL, amid fears of a renewed Israeli military campaign in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-09-17 19:05 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school and sports facility in February constitute war crimes
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[2026-09-17 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As it faces off against Beijing in the region, Manila has been expanding its unofficial security cooperation with Taipei
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[2026-09-17 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Marshall Islands] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As it faces off against Beijing in the region, Manila has been expanding its unofficial security cooperation with Taipei
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[2026-09-17 18:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.
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[2026-09-17 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An AI system that interferes with a nuclear command network or launches a military cyber operation could leave Washington or Beijing with minutes to decide whether the other government attacked, according to US and Chinese security experts.
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[2026-09-17 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: There's been another dangerous incident and major 'close call' involving a Russian ship in international waters off Europe.
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[2026-09-17 16:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The move shows how military ties have expanded beyond weapons and troops into labour and industrial production, the report says
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[2026-09-17 16:37 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The move shows how military ties have expanded beyond weapons and troops into labour and industrial production, the report says
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[2026-09-17 16:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the world wrestles with the ethical implications of artificial intelligence and the dangers of removing humans from life-altering decisions, Israel has pressed ahead with deploying AI as part of its military arsenal.
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[2026-09-17 16:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: North Korea's vice defense minister said on Thursday that a growing US-led military buildup and what he called an expanding nuclear alliance among Washington, Seoul and Tokyo justified Pyongyang's efforts to strengthen and expand its nuclear forces.
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[2026-09-17 16:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The BRICS summit that ended in New Delhi on Sunday produced no military alliance, common currency, or unified anti-Western front. It did, however, produce a 140-paragraph declaration showing how a group of countries with sharply different interests is trying to create greater room for emerging economies to shape the rules governing trade, finance, technology and international institutions.
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[2026-09-17 15:51 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-09-17 15:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-09-17 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: South Korea's foreign minister told reporters that no decision has been made on any military deployment to the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-09-17 13:00 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-09-17 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: CHANGWON, South Korea, Sept. 17 (Yonhap) -- A logistics soldier stood waiting beside a stack of supplies as a compact, crouching military vehicle rolled across the grounds.
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[2026-09-17 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China’s next-generation combat aircraft will be able to fly by themselves if a pilot loses consciousness, navigate without satellite signals and operate in self-reorganising large drone formations. That is the plan laid out by researchers from the Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, a top Chinese military aircraft design organisation, in a paper last month, the SCMP reported.
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[2026-09-17 12:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israelis should be stripped of their citizenship if they are found guilty of slandering the military, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, as the IDF faces new accusations of killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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[2026-09-17 12:29 UTC+10:00] [ENVIRONMENT] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Thimphu, Bhutan – Engineer Rinzin Galley stands on a platform overlooking a former military shooting range on the edge of Bhutan’s capital Thimphu, now home to a gleaming field of solar panels.
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[2026-09-17 11:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This is the first overt military tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours since they engaged in a four-day conflict last year
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[2026-09-17 11:10 UTC+10:00] [Indian High Commission] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This is the first overt military tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours since they engaged in a four-day conflict last year
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[2026-09-17 09:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-17 09:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Despite an ongoing blockade on Iranian maritime trade and attacks by Iran’s military on commercial ships, the United States military has said US forces have kept the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping, including the facilitation of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil through the strategic waterway.
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[2026-09-17 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The comments by Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, come soon after the US revealed that it has deployed weapons in space
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[2026-09-17 07:47 UTC+10:00] [Combat Forces Command] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The comments by Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, come soon after the US revealed that it has deployed weapons in space
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[2026-09-17 07:19 UTC+10:00] [Space] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Gen Dan Caine comments at Washington summit come after US revealed it has deployed weapons in space
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[2026-09-17 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine testifies at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, July 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
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[2026-09-17 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military conducted an explosion in the town of Kfar Tebnit in southern Lebanon and shelled the towns of Majdal Zoun and al-Mansouri, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
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[2026-09-17 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: More Palestinians in the West Bank believe Israel does not have a right to exist (46%) than those who believe it does (41%), according to a new poll published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-17 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed a Nukhba commander in the Khan Yunis area last week who had been involved in the abduction of several Armored Corps soldiers during the October 7 massacre, the military announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 00:48 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: WASHINGTON — German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius came to the Pentagon on Wednesday with a dilemma: Berlin wants a stronger, more self-reliant European military, but much of what it needs comes from the United States.
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[2026-09-17 00:36 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-09-17 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Abdul Malik al-Houthi, an elusive figure who commands a battle-hardened force, scored his biggest military victory in years when his Iran-aligned Houthi terrorist group swept through Yemen's Red Sea coastline and tightened its grip on a vital shipping waterway, rattling oil superpower Saudi Arabia.
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