Defence`s Feeds

Canada has frozen ties with China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank after the bank's Canadian communications head resigned, explosively accusing the organization of having "one of the most toxic cultures imaginable" on his personal Twitter account.

Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of National Defence concluded a successful visit to Brussels, Belgium. During her visit, she participated in the thirteenth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defence Ministers. During the meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, Minister Anand and her Allied counterparts discussed the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and

Three West Virginia National Guardsmen participated in the Women in Strategic Intelligence Seminar in Doha, Qatar, May 14-18.

According to a letter sent today by Netherlands Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren to the House of Representatives, the Netherlands and a number of other European countries are working to ensure that the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16 can start as soon as possible. To this end, a training centre is being set up in an eastern European NATO member state.

Utah National Guard Soldiers from the Homeland Response Force - Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Task Force traveled overseas to train with Ghana Armed Forces as part of Exercise African Lion 2023 May 31-June 14.

More than two dozen Oregon Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team's 3-116th Combined Arms Battalion conducted tank gunnery training with members of the Royal Moroccan Army in the Tan Tan Training Area, June 8-10 during Exercise African Lion 2023.

It's hot and humid, and there are critters everywhere. "The Box" at the Joint Readiness Training Center is where Soldiers are battle-tested in a high-stress, multi-domain setting against a near-peer opposing force, becoming deployment-ready.

Today, we held the 13th meeting of the Contact Group, which was assembled by the US with a broader membership than just NATO Allies. The task of this group is to coordinate support for Ukraine. We may be pleased that Poland's role in supporting Ukraine is appreciated by our Allies. At the same time, I think that it is our achievement that among the

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In a slow-motion blow-up that has been underway since March, a diplomatic row between China and India over journalist visas has prompted each side to minimize the other's media presence in their territories.

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During his visit this week to China, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced support for China's policies in the far western region of Xinjiang, where the United Nations has found credible patterns of torture and ill treatment against the mostly Muslim Uyghurs living there.

A new law that imposes harsher penalties on gun trafficking is giving U.S. prosecutors a powerful tool to combat the illicit flow of weapons from the United States to drug cartels in Mexico.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on Ukraine and Russia to de-escalate their conflict after talks in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as an African delegation launched a mission to broker peace.

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi this week assessed the impact of the Kakhovka dam disaster on the safety of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and reinforced the team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts at the facility, during his third visit to the site in less than a year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Moscow's deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus has already happened, reminding the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

NATO plans to invite Ukraine into a new NATO-Ukraine defense council as an equal member, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference today in Brussels.

NATO Defence Ministers concluded two days of meetings in Brussels on Friday (16 June 2023), in order to prepare for the Vilnius Summit in July.

UN humanitarians continue bringing life-saving aid to survivors of the flooding from the Kakhovka Dam, but they've warned that hundreds of thousands more people in the country's south face severe water shortages.