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India will get a strategic toehold in the South China Sea region as its new satellite monitoring station in Vietnam is expected to be...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - one of the group’s most dangerous branches - has released an audio message by Ibrahim Al-Qusi, one...

By ARIE EGOZI Washington is angry , the security council will convene and condemn. This is the beginning of another sad joke. North Korea is ignoring the...

Following the 13 November attacks in Paris, terrorism analysts in the United Kingdom and Europe say the continent’s intelligence and security services have accepted...

More than 200 fighters of the Somali militant group al-Shabab have reportedly defected from the al-Qaida affiliate and established the first coherent Islamic State...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) carries with it the promise to transform our lives. Sadly, it also harbours many risks. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has been...

Materials to produce deadly sarin gas arrived in ISIS camps in Syria after originating in Turkey, claims Turkish MP Eren Erdem. Sarin gas was...

Anonymous are stepping up their game in the fight against ISIS, if latest claim by the hacktivist collective is to be believed. It has now...

ISIS has reportedly obtained equipment and blank passport books required to make fake Syrian passports when taking control of Raqqa and Deir Ezzour in...

The European Union is increasing efforts to understand and combat terrorism and extremism. To this end, the EU has sent intelligence and security experts...

In another development in the so-far peaceful tit-for-tat dispute between China and its US-backed neighbours over territorial claims in South China Sea, the US...

In a further escalation of the space arms race, Russia has launched and tested an anti-satellite missile on Nov. 18. The missile system, called...

Over the last 18 months, the number of foreign fighters in Syria and in Iraq has doubled, according to a study by the Soufan...

The Earth is big and its climate is complicated, with many different variants to take into account in order to be able to tell...

At least one of Turkey’s border is now being controlled more tightly. Following an agreement with the European Union, Turkey is cracking down on...
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For over a week Crimea has been without reliable power supply after explosions damaged pylons and cut off electricity supply from Ukraine. While the...

Threats from terrorist organisations and belligerent states are numerous. They range from terrorist attacks, like we have seen in Paris, through offensive operations similar...

Paz Shabtai This past year’s events have already caused considerably heated debates on Europe’s illegal immigration crisis. Now the November 13 attacks in Paris have...

  The government of Japan requested to purchase three Global Hawk drones, eight Kearfott navigation systems, eight global positioning systems, as well as other support...
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Facebook is aiming to bring the internet to underserved parts of the world. To do so it has teamed up with defence contractor Raytheon,...

In an effort to increase cooperation and shared cyber defence capabilities between allies, NATO Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Sorin Ducaru and Czech Director of...
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French President Francois Hollande closed the country’s borders late Friday night in response to deadly terror attacks that gripped Paris. "We have to assure...