China’s top intelligence official has warned that artificial intelligence is creating new national security risks and becoming a major arena of strategic competition between global powers, calling for stronger safeguards and international
China’s top intelligence official has warned that artificial intelligence is creating new national security risks and becoming a major arena of strategic competition between global powers, calling for stronger safeguards and international
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Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline after a drone attack by allies of Iran, opening a new and potentially consequential front in the Middle East war as fighting around
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Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
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Taiwan is betting that drones can transform both its military preparedness and its industrial future, but the country’s ambitious plans are colliding with an uncomfortable question: can Taipei build thousands of effective
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The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement has emerged at a moment when the security order across the Middle East and South Asia is becoming less predictable. Signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye
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A striking contradiction is emerging in East Asia. As Japan expands its defence partnerships, strengthens its military capabilities and deepens cooperation with countries across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, China is increasingly portraying
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At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, humanoid machines jumped, boxed and danced before cheering spectators. Some fleet-footed robots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 metres. Their increasingly
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Tweeting from his prison cell, Pakistan’s cricketing hero and former prime minister Imran Khan described the country’s de facto leader, Field Marshal Asim Munir, as a mentally unstable, cruel dictator driven by
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A concert, a demonstration or a football match may appear to be an ordinary gathering of people. But as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in facial-recognition systems, such events can also become
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by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
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For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin has pursued political objectives through military escalation. The question now confronting Europe is not simply whether the Russian president intends to continue the war in
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Japan is preparing to take another major step in expanding its defence capabilities, with the Defense Ministry seeking a record ¥8.9 trillion ($56 billion) for fiscal 2027 — a figure that government
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The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle over who speaks for the US military, and growing concern among senior commanders about the resources being consumed by the
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For Adam Lee Heimerman, an alleged vandal, the reaction to his arrest has been extraordinary. After the 37-year-old congressional candidate from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was arrested at the end of July, internet
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India has legitimate security concerns arising from cross-border militancy. Its history of terrorist attacks and regional confrontation gives New Delhi ample reason to investigate suspected cross-border militant networks. But legitimate security concerns
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