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
Taiwan is preparing to purchase its first weapons for a major air-defense initiative announced less than two months ago, underscoring the island’s determination to get the program operational as China intensifies military
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Revenues from arms sales and military services by the world’s 100 largest arms-producing companies climbed to a record $679 billion in 2024, a 5.9 per cent increase from the previous year, according
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President Donald Trump threatens to hang military officers who have the audacity to tell their troops not to obey unlawful orders. Trump called them ‘traitors’ and suggested they be locked up. The
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The Afghan man accused of shooting two members of the US National Guard just steps from the White House previously worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, newly surfaced information suggests. Rahmanullah Lakanwal,
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South Korea is considering updating its espionage law amid growing concerns about Chinese spies targeting military secrets. Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho recently met with Kim Byung-kee, floor leader of the ruling Democratic
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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping $40 billion special defense budget, a bold proposal that would reshape the island’s military capabilities through 2033 and push annual defense spending above
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro could offer crude oil cargoes, primarily destined for China, as a bargaining chip in potential negotiations with the United States, sources told Reuters. The U.S., under former President
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In a complaint filed Monday in US federal court, American families of those murdered, maimed or taken hostage accuse Zhao and Binance of knowingly enabling millions of dollars in payments to Hamas,
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by Eric Fifty years ago, the United States confronted one of the darkest chapters in its postwar foreign policy when the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
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by Durga Velayudham Recently, the Financial Times has exposed a second clandestine visit by Iranian nuclear scientists to Russia in November 2024, a trip that appears far more sinister than a benign
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