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Canada’s lead negotiator told Reuters on Thursday that Canada is set to co-announce the creation of a global defence bank with ten European countries at the Nato summit next week.
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, has announced the launch of a real-time virtual simulation of the emirate.
A bomb blast at a cafe in Damascus on Thursday killed six people and wounded 22, according to Syrian authorities, making it the deadliest bombing since a suicide attack on a church last year.
Russians will head to the polls in September to elect a new State Duma and regional officials in a vote that the ruling United Russia party is expected to dominate but which could offer insight into how four years of war in Ukraine have reshaped the country’s political landscape.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand for loyalty from other NATO members, insisting that no member state should impose its will on the others.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology over the forced adoption of babies born to unmarried British mothers in the decades after World War II, describing the scheme as a “stain on our history”.
Details of a growing family of standard-sized weapon systems appeared on social media, along with video of an EMALS in action
Details of a growing family of standard-sized weapon systems appeared on social media, along with video of an EMALS in action
Claims against Israel Defense Forces battalion include deliberate targeting and destruction of residential buildings in 2023 and 2024 without military justification
If you were to only listen to the BBC and read the Daily Telegraph, you might believe that Britain was facing an imminent invasion that only a full switch to a war economy could prevent.
A bomb exploded inside a crowded cafe in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding nearly a dozen, according to Syrian authorities.
The Spanish government is ordering state-backed companies to cut their ties with US defense contractor Palantir, Spain’s El Confidencial newspaper has reported. The move follows similar bans in France and Germany.
The University of Birmingham has significantly weakend its restrictions on investing in weapons companies, Middle East Eye has learnt.
An explosion ripped through a cafe in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday, killing at least five people and injuring 16, according to the Syrian Ministry of Health. Authorities believe that the blast was caused by a bomb.
An explosion ripped through a cafe in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday, killing at least nine people and injuring 20, according to the Syrian Ministry of Health. Authorities believe that the blast was caused by a bomb.
IDF soldiers were dispatched near Beit Ummar after reports emerged of an attempted ramming attack in the area on Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi pose for photos ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, July 2. © Reuters
Australia’s biggest gas producers are poised to cash in on an expected $18 billion revenue surge over the next year due to the fallout from the Iran war, intensifying calls for the government to levy a 25 per cent tax on their exports.
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Former Netflix film chairman Scott Stuber is betting on a Kalshi and Polymarket movie.
The European Union will sanction Russian military producers involved in the deadly attack on Kyiv Thursday morning, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced on X.
An explosion was heard in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state media Al-Ekhbariya reported.A bomb blast at a crowded cafe in central Damascus killed at least five people and wounded 16 others on Thursday, Syrian state media said.
More than 90 percent of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed, and Israeli forces are in control of 80 percent of the besieged territory, authorities in the enclave say, as the world marks 1,000 days since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began.
Tanzania has deployed military personnel and police in Dar es Salaam and other major cities ahead of planned protests over last year’s contested election.
South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative says base infrastructure expansion ‘has fallen short of expectations’
South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative says base infrastructure expansion ‘has fallen short of expectations’
Just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of an impending "massive" escalation by Moscow, the skies over the Ukrainian capital erupted in a flurry of inbound drone and missile activity.
Russian forces launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, killing 18 people.
Europe reacted with anger after Russia unleashed one of the most intense missile and drone attacks on Kyiv so far this year, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens.
One of the latest ideas circulating around Gaza’s post-war transition is the creation of Hamas-free camps - or, in the more cautious language of planners, “temporary communities” - inside the Israeli-controlled Green Zone, where civilians could receive shelter, services, and protection under a future Palestinian civ…
The Group of Seven nations will discuss standards on artificial intelligence security and defense, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has said.
Two unidentified drones attacked the Russian Embassy in Sweden overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, with one dropping a container of red paint and another falling near the building with a fake explosive device attached, diplomats have said.
Iran’s joint military command warned Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a “forceful response,” again ratcheting up tensions over a waterway crucial for international energy supplies.
While the J-15T was designed to use an advanced launch system, new images show it operating from the older Liaoning carrier
While the J-15T was designed to use an advanced launch system, new images show it operating from the older Liaoning carrier
There’s an undeniable sense of exhaustion in Brisbane food and beverage right now. After the pandemic and high interest rates and cyclones, the recent US-Iran War and its deleterious economic effects have plenty of local operators wondering (off record, if not on) what’s next.
A younger generation of analysts close to Iran's ruling establishment says the only way to reach trade deals with the Arab states of the southern Gulf is to maintain military pressure on them.
A younger generation of analysts close to Iran's ruling establishment says the only way to reach trade deals with the Arab states of the southern Gulf is to maintain military pressure on them.
One thousand days have passed since the Hamas-led attack on Israel sparked the war in Gaza. Other conflicts have emerged in the region, and fragile ceasefires show scars of persistent attacks. Both Israelis and Palestinians are weary of the strain.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi pose for photos ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, July 2. © Reuters
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Thursday said the Baltic country's top political leaders had agreed that a constitutional ban on the domestic deployment of nuclear weapons should be removed.
Israel's largest oil refineries sustained far heavier damage from Iranian missile strikes during the US-Israeli war on Iran than authorities previously acknowledged, Israeli media reported.
Funeral ceremonies for Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed in US and Israeli strikes, will be held in Iraq’s holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, the Iraqi government announced on Thursday.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) is considering moving its military bases’ operational systems in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to Israel in order to increase their distance from further Iranian missile and drone attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday.
A new United Nations Group of Experts report paints the clearest picture yet of the AFC/M23’s military strength and political ambitions in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, while highlighting the movement’s increasingly close ties with former President Joseph Kabila. The report suggests that this evolving re…
This frame grab of footage aired Wednesday, July 1, 2026, by Iranian state television shows a vessel that ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz. (Iranian state television via AP)
Japan’s leader was in India to meet with the country’s prime minister. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was greeted in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AP video/Rishi Lekhi)
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been stressing the fact that Israel has to be strong to survive in the Middle East. This isn’t a new theme or mantra, but rather one he has made into a consistent ideology over the last few decades.
A woman looks at an apartment building burning after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)