Defence`s Feeds

China's top legislature will deliberate on a draft law against cross-border corruption, according to a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on Tuesday.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has supported Operation Island Chief, a Pacific-led fisheries surveillance activity aimed at strengthening regional security.

The Defence Science and Technology Group sits where Defence's toughest challenges meet Australia's scientific and technological expertise.

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The upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been in turmoil in Beijing for the last few days. To mark the centenary of the birth of former president Jiang Zemin, (1926-2022), a solemn commemorative ceremony was held on [...]

Kirill Dmitriev is expected to lose his status as Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation [...]

In recent months, France's DRSD military intelligence agency has issued several espionage risk warnings linked to vehicles made by China's [...]

An article about the Grandview Institution (GVI) think-tank published in the Financial Times late last year sparked debate in the [...]

I never imagined that European colonialism was so barbaric, so contemptuous and shameful of all the teachings of Christianity that we are all descendants of Adam. pic.twitter.com/9O5h7Sp6PF

— Valhalla (@ELMObrokenWings) August 19, 2026

Plus de 3 millions d’enfants âgés de 0 mois à 14 ans bénéficieront d’une campagne intégrée de vaccination contre la poliomyélite, la rougeole et la rubéole dans quinze zones de santé de la ville de Goma et des territoires environnants (Nord-Kivu). Lancée officiellement lundi 17 aout 2026, l’opération se déroulera pendant cinq jours. Les autorités sanitaires assurent qu’elle sera menée malgré les difficultés d’accès à certaines zones ciblées.

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At the invitation of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, H.E. Mr Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, visited the Syrian Arab Republic on 17-18 August 2026 and held a meeting with H.E. Mr Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates. The visit, which included the site at Deir Ez-Zor and a second location related to the nuclear material identified by Syria recently, marks the most significant advance to date in the cooperation between Syria and the Agency, towards resolving the outstanding safeguards issues arising from undeclared activities related to the former regime, under Syria's Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Safeguards Agreement.

US President Donald Trump has said there are no negotiations underway or scheduled with Iran, a day after his son-in-law Jared Kushner said contacts between Washington and Tehran remained robust.

A 14-count superseding (S2) indictment was unsealed today charging 17 members of the Mabna Institute, an Iran-based company that, since at least 2013, has conducted a coordinated campaign of cyber intrusions into computer systems for 144 U.S.-based universities, 178 foreign universities, at least 42 U.S.-based private sector companies, at least 11 foreign private sector companies, at least five U.S. federal and state government agencies, and at least two non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The U.S. Army announced today an agreement with Hanwha Defense USA, Arlington, Virginia, for the development of prototypes for the Mobile Tactical Cannon program, a critical priority in the Army's ongoing continuous transformation and long-range fires modernization efforts.

While the majority of people displaced by months of airstrikes and insecurity in Lebanon have returned to their areas of origin, many are faced with damaged homes, widespread destruction and a lack of essential services, with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warning that the displacement and humanitarian crisis is far from over.

Amid ongoing deadly hostilities in Gaza, the enclave's farmers face the increasingly difficult challenge of finding safe land to grow their crops.

A popular former defense minister whose dismissal last month sparked protests has delivered a videotaped address to Ukrainians in which he assailed wartime corruption, warned of a systemic crisis of governance, and said the country must find a way to hold elections despite the continuing Russian invasion.

Arab and Islamic countries strongly condemned the Zionist regime's attack on Syria's Abu al-Duhur military airbase, calling on the international community to take action to prevent repeated aggression by the regime.