by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, has made a second visit to Sri Lanka within a few months. Prior
The Sri Lankan Navy assumed command of Combined Task Force (CTF) 154 during a change-of-command ceremony on 26 January. Commodore KMH Bettage of the Sri Lankan Navy succeeded Commodore Haytham Khalil of
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A Chinese aerospace company has unveiled its prototype for a next-generation supersonic passenger aircraft capable of flying at Mach 4, twice the speed of the legendary Concorde. Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology Co
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President Donald Trump, on Truth Social and in interviews, is pushing the idea that Russia needs to hurry up and make a deal on Ukraine before Trump, taking advantage of Russia’s economic problems, imposes
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Two Iranian cargo vessels, the Golbon and Jairan, are en route from China to Iran, carrying over 1,000 tonnes of sodium perchlorate, a crucial ingredient for missile propellant, according to intelligence cited
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On the first day of his second term, President Trump revoked U.S. Secret Service protection for John Bolton, his former national security adviser. Bolton had been granted security in 2021 by President
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Antony Blinken spent his last two weeks in office giving media interviews defending his record as America’s top ‘diplomat’. But it was under Blinken’s watch that the US sparked the worst security
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A recent report by a US think tank has revealed how North Korea circumvented international sanctions to acquire a critical piece of equipment used in its nuclear weapons program. The regime obtained
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The Netherlands has secured a significant $175 million defense contract with Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, despite growing domestic opposition and an ongoing court-imposed ban on the export of F-35 parts to
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NATO’s perennial cycle of eastward expansion has been disastrous for European security, and “spells the beginning of the end of NATO as we know it,” Michael Maloof, senior former Pentagon analyst previously
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In a surprising twist, US and European intelligence agencies now agree that recent damage to underwater cables in the Baltic Sea was caused by accidents involving commercial vessels, not deliberate sabotage by
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