The measures, part of a broader retaliatory package, were approved by President Vladimir Putin, as a response to an array of US government sanctions imposed on Moscow a day earlier, including curbs to its sovereign debt...
A US Air Force reconnaissance plane flying in international airspace has been shadowed through the skies by a Russian fighter pilot off the country’s Pacific coast, Ministry of Defense officials in Moscow confirmed on Friday. A...
Ukraine threatens Russia but it appears Russia is not deterred. Russia has amassed nearly 80,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine. Meanwhile, Biden sheepishly decides not to move navy ships into the Black Sea after...
China’s latest military exercise near Taiwan on Monday “could be a rehearsal of a reunification-by-force operation,” China’s state-run Global Times suggested Tuesday. “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted an exercise near the island of Taiwan on Monday with...
Two missile ships, the Graivoron and Vyshny Volochek, will take part in drills as two US Navy vessels arrive in the region. Russia's Black Sea fleet revealed the two ships will join the hovercraft, Samum and the...
Christopher Pyne, former Australian defence minister, warned that an armed conflict may be likely with China due to its ongoing aggressive behaviour. Tensions between the two nations have ramped up since last April when Australia’s Prime...
Iran's top diplomat said on Tuesday that an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility which it blames on Israel was a "very bad gamble" that would strengthen Tehran's hand in talks to revive a 2015...
Beijing has been increasingly rattling sabers–and perhaps trying to provoke a crisis. Earlier this week, China sent twenty-five warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the largest incursion of its airspace to date. There has been...
Russia has warned the US to keep its warships away from Crimea 'for their own good' as it accused Washington and NATO of turning the region into a 'powder keg' amid soaring tensions on the...
Fears of nuclear warfare were believed to have peaked during the Cold War. A lengthy spell of eyeballing between the US and the Soviet Union led to nothing. On more than one occasion, however, the alarm was sounded, each time...