The Afghan Taliban announced on Saturday that a high-level delegation of its government met with a U.S. delegation in Qatari capital Doha.
2021-10-10 17:16Iran has enriched more than 120 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium, the head of the country's atomic energy agency said on Iranian state television Saturday evening.
2021-10-10 15:14A nuclear-powered U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine was damaged after it "struck an object" while submerged in waters in the Indo-Pacific region on Oct. 2, the U.S. Navy said in a statement on Thursday.
2021-10-08 15:09Bahrain, Russia and other members of the UN Human Rights Council pushed through a vote on Thursday to shut down the body's war crimes investigations in Yemen.
2021-10-08 15:04A total of 74 Houthi rebels and eight Yemeni army soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a battle between the two sides in Yemen's central province of Marib, Xinhua reported, citing a government military source.
2021-10-07 00:41Somali National Army (SNA)'s Special Forces (Danab) on Monday killed seven al-Shabab militants during a sting security operation carried out in Lower Shabelle region, the southern part of the country.
2021-10-05 00:00South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed on Friday to create a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, according to the presidential Blue House.
2021-10-01 20:44The UN Security Council on Wednesday renewed the authorization of vessel inspection and seizure off the coast of Libya to curb migrant smuggling and human trafficking.
2021-09-30 09:44Boeing announced on Wednesday that it will continue assuring the C-17 Globemaster III's worldwide mission readiness through a follow-on contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense, valued at up to 23.8 billion U.S. dollars including potential options and incentives over ten years.
2021-09-30 09:43Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said Tuesday he took full responsibility for the August 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians.
2021-09-29 09:39Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday during a Senate hearing that it is a "strategic failure" with the Taliban back in power and U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
2021-09-29 08:09Abdulla Shahid, president of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on Tuesday called for redoubling efforts to ensure meaningful progress in global nuclear disarmament.
2021-09-29 08:06The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) test-fired a hypersonic missile Hwasong-8 in Toyang-ri, Ryongrim County of Jagang Province on Tuesday morning, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Wednesday.
2021-09-29 08:01The U.S. has tested an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds five times faster than the speed of sound, marking the first successful test of this class of weapon since 2013, the Pentagon said on Monday.
2021-09-28 14:48UN Undersecretary-General for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu on Monday warned of the trend toward the modernization and expansion of nuclear arsenals.
2021-09-28 08:16Boeing announced on Monday that it has delivered the first of 78 contracted Block III F/A-18 Super Hornets to the U.S. Navy.
2021-09-28 08:13Russia has launched large-scale military drills in Crimea with the participation of the country's airborne forces, the defense ministry's Zvezda broadcasting service said Monday.
2021-09-27 22:20A soldier was killed and two others were injured when terrorists targeted a security forces' check post in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, an army statement said on Sunday.
2021-09-26 23:29The Indonesian military has intensified its hunt for armed criminals after five Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers and one female nurse were killed this month in three separate attacks committed by armed militants in the country's eastern provinces of Papua and West Papua.
2021-09-25 21:05French President Emmanuel Macron and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden said they will meet in October in Europe following their phone call on Wednesday over the new trilateral Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) security partnership.
2021-09-23 09:00A high-level meeting of U.S. and Russian military officials took place in Finland on Wednesday, the Finnish Defense Forces announced in a press release.
2021-09-23 07:58The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador.
2021-09-22 12:12U.S. President Joe Biden said in a speech at the United Nations on Tuesday that the United States is opening a new chapter of diplomacy after ending the two-decade Afghan war.
2021-09-22 09:36U.S. sanctions against Venezuela are hampering its technical cooperation program with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Venezuelan government said on Tuesday.
2021-09-22 09:29The head of mission and force commander of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) vowed on Tuesday to continue working with Lebanese authorities by supporting the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and people in southern Lebanon.
2021-09-22 09:01France will maintain its military presence in Mali, visiting French Defence Minister Florence Parly said here on Monday, following a meeting with her Malian counterpart, Colonel Sadio Camara.
2021-09-21 22:18The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK on Monday criticized the United States for transferring the technology of building nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
2021-09-20 17:59France has decided to recall its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations after Canberra scrapped a deal to acquire French-designed submarines and decided instead to invest in U.S. nuclear-powered submarines.
2021-09-18 09:03UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday asked for cooperation from the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in support of Afghanistan.
2021-09-18 09:04Wang said that it is necessary for the four countries to strengthen communication and coordination, speak in one voice, and exert positive influence over the issue, so as to play a constructive role for a smooth transition in Afghanistan.
2021-09-18 08:08The Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday to extend the mandate of a UN investigative team for crimes committed by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.
2021-09-18 08:01The European Union (EU) on Thursday unveiled a new strategy for enhancing its economic, political and defense existence in the Indo-Pacific region, vowing to cooperate with all actors in the region and seek no confrontation.
2021-09-17 08:12The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two unidentified ballistic missiles into eastern waters, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, citing the Republic of Korea (ROK)'s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
2021-09-15 19:30The use of drones by the U.S. military against targets in other countries has come under scrutiny again following a deadly strike that it carried out recently in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was alleged to have wrongly killed multiple civilians there, including young children.
2021-09-15 15:20Russian and Belarusian armed forces kicked off their joint strategic exercise "Zapad-2021" at a training ground in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region on Thursday.
2021-09-13 21:10The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) successfully test-fired new type of long-range cruise missiles on Saturday and Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday.
2021-09-13 11:16The Rubezh-2021 joint exercises of the Collective Forces of Rapid Deployment of the Central Asian region of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were held in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday.
2021-09-07 22:37A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed Tuesday afternoon off the coast of San Diego, California, prompting search and rescue operations by sea and air, according to the U.S. Navy's 3rd Fleet.
2021-09-01 16:52Japan on Sunday commemorated the 76th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, with Emperor Naruhito expressing his "deep remorse" over Japan's wartime actions at an annual mourning ceremony in Tokyo.
2021-08-15 23:04Pakistan will continue to support the efforts for political settlement of the Afghan issues and hopes that all Afghan sides will work together to resolve their internal political crisis, the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan said in a statement here on Sunday.
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