Taipei: Burkina Faso, an African country has announced to break off political ties with Taiwan. While it becomes the second nation to make such a declaration within the span of only a month due to China’s pressure, Dominican Republic had also previously made a similar announcement. Being antagonised due to this, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen […]
Washington: United States has cancelled the invitation given to China to participate in the large-scale war exercises known as the ‘Rim of the Pacific’ (RIMPAC). US Defence Secretary, James Mattis announced this decision accusing China of not having the militarisation of the ‘South China Sea’ ceased yet. Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, currently on a […]
Sochi: ‘The new advanced Russian weapons will dominate the next decade, because there is no defence system in the world that can match or intercept the new Russian weapons,’ claimed Russian President, Vladimir Putin. The Russian President made a very suggestive statement saying that these Russian weapons will help maintain the power balance in the […]
Taipei/Beijing/Washington: Disturbed by the military cooperation between Taiwan and United States, China organised a war exercise close to the Taiwanese airspace. It threatened Taiwan by flying its bombers and fighter jets close to the airspace. The Taiwanese ‘F-16’ fighter jets chased off the Chinese fighter jets, adding to the tension in the east Asian region. […]
Canberra: The advanced fighter jet ‘Sukhoi-30’ crashed near Latakia in Syria after taking off from the Hmeymim airbase in north western Syria. The Russian defence ministry has informed that there was no attack on the jet and both the pilots have been killed in the crash. Russia has started strong preparations to retaliate against the […]
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has threatened Qatar saying that ‘Qatar should send its army to Syria and provide financial aid to the United States military campaign here. If that is not possible then Qatar should give up the United States protective shield and be prepared to lose its regime’. Qatar has reacted on the threat and […]
Moscow : Russia has started a powerful war exercise with participation of more than 100 fighter jets and approximately 1000 personnel. The objective of this war exercise is to prepare Russia to defend itself in case of an enemy attack. 50 military operations will be conducted in all, during these war exercises, informed the Russian […]
Washington/London/Damascus: The United States, Britain and France launched 105 missiles on Syria on Saturday morning. The United States, Britain and France have claimed that this attack was very successful. At the same time, the allies reminded that the attack had a very limited objective. All the three countries have claimed that the attacks were not […]
Kano: 34 people were killed and more than 90 injured in an attack in Northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, known to be the most dreaded terrorist organisation in Africa, on Sunday night. A few months ago, the Nigerian government had claimed to have finished Boko Haram. Against this backdrop, these attacks highlight the failure of […]
Moscow: The Russian fighter jets have once again started lurking over the European border. The Ukrainian Air Force informed that the Russian fighter jets and bombers are lurking close to the border of the eastern European countries like Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria and the Black Sea. These new incidents are a proof that Russia is […]