It’s Official: Mustard Gas Has Been Used in Syria
Sulfur mustard has supposedly been disposed of in Syria over a year ago, when President Bashar al-Assad’s regime agreed to clear out its chemical...
Satellite Surveillance To Track Commercial Airplanes
by Konstantin Bodragin
Satellite surveillance is commonly thought of as belonging to the realm of spies, spooks, and secretive military intelligence types. Command, Control, Communications,...
North Korea Is Jamming China’s Phone Signals
North Korea has stepped up its restrictions on cellphone reception along its border with China. Signals from Chinese cellphone towers increasingly are unable to...
First “East of Suez” UK Naval Base In 40 Years Begins...
by Konstantin Bodragin
UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond and his Bahraini counterpart Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa held a groundbreaking ceremony last weekend,...
Three Million Refugees expected in EU By 2017
Three million refugees and migrants could arrive in the European Union by 2017, according to predictions made by the EU's executive arm.
The European Commission has estimated one...
US Defence Firm’s Secretive Agreement With Iran
Details emerged this week of a secretive deal between GTT Communications Inc, a firm closely associated with the American intelligence community, and the Government...
Germany Tightens The Reins On Spy Service
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...
Greece, Turkey Join NATO Cyber Defense Center
Finland, Greece and Turkey finalised their accession process to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCD COE). The Greek Republic and the...
South Korea Remains Under US Protection Against North
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,...
IS Oilfields Remain Operative Despite US, Russian Airstrikes
Oil sales — the extremists’ largest single source of continual income — are a key reason the Islamic State has been able to maintain...
Boiling Tension in the South China Sea
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...
Thailand’s Government Is Under Attack
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...
Nightmare: Pakistan To Deploy Small Tactical Nuclear Weapons
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 Planning ‘Massive’ Tri-Services Military Base in Syria
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...
How Big Data Can Help Migrants
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...
Russia continues to stride towards north pole
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,...
Russian drone shot down in Ukraine
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...
Paris Air Show presents all the latest technological developments
Preparations are finished for the opening of the International Aviation and Space salon in La Bourget , near Paris. This is an undisputed summit...
Special Operators Are Using Rapid DNA Readers
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 has confirmed an I-HLS report
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 Demonstrates Submerged Ballistic Missile Launch
North Korea claims to have successfully launched a ballistic missile from a submarine beneath waters off the coast of its mainland. That missile has...
Syria’s chemical arsenal: no longer a secret
The world is blind. Inspectors find – months after Israel did – undeclared chemical weapons in Syria.
Many months after Israeli intelligence asserted that Assad...
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