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Details emerged this week of a secretive deal between GTT Communications Inc, a firm closely associated with the American intelligence community, and the Government...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) overstepped an intelligence-sharing agreement with Germany by requesting German technicians to snoop on allied governments‘ emails, a top-level...

Finland, Greece and Turkey finalised their accession process to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCD COE). The Greek Republic and the...

North Korea is an "up-close, dangerous and continuing threat,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter at a news conference with his South Korean counterpart,...

Oil sales — the extremists’ largest single source of continual income — are a key reason the Islamic State has been able to maintain...

Tensions are rising in the South China Sea. A large swath of maritime area, commonly known as the nine-dashed line, has been informally claimed...

Governments all around the world have had to put up with the dark side of the ever-growing extensive use of social media. Although the...

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is coming to the United States next week on an official visit, and the New York Times reports that...

Russia is planning to set up tri-services military base in Syria aimed at eliminating ISIS militants. “Russia may end up having one massive military base...

By Marzia Rango* The international community has been calling for an improvement to the availability and quality of migration statistics for decades. Just like in every...
Photo illus. CH-47 Chinook helicopter by US DoD

After Russia has declared before that is has bgun using two unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance and intelligence in the north pole’s aerial territory,...

Last year the world experienced a very big crisis that seemed to bring back the cold war to today’s reality. This sense of deja-vu...

Preparations are finished for the opening of the International Aviation and Space salon in La Bourget , near Paris. This is an undisputed summit...

Representatives from the U.S. Special Operations Command revealed that they were testing two rapid DNA readers in forward locations. The operators feed in a...

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg warned Monday that fighters from Islamic extremist groups may hide among the flood of migrants seeking refuge in Europe, increasing...

North Korea claims to have successfully launched a ballistic missile from a submarine beneath waters off the coast of its mainland. That missile has...

The world is blind. Inspectors find – months after Israel did – undeclared chemical weapons in Syria. Many months after Israeli intelligence asserted that Assad...

Boeing could be the latest international aircraft-maker to garner a deal for more fighter aircraft, with word that the US government is nearing agreement...

Two Turkish-made T129 attack helicopters were deployed at a southeastern military base in Turkey to support anti-terror operations against Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy....

A Tokyo utility company recently sent two specially-designed robots on an ill-fated mission into the Fukushima nuclear disaster site to assess the damage. Four...

The Russian Ground Forces' new suite of armored vehicles have been officially revealed for the first time by the Russian Ministry of Defense, ahead...

A new report on global trends in suicide terrorism shows that during 2014 more than 4,300 people in more than fifteen countries were killed...

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