Defence`s Feeds

A hacking group has released a batch of what it claims are classified Iranian government documents, some of which revealed new details of an attack early this year on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran.

In 1988, Hossein Mortazavi Zanjani was the head of Tehran's notorious Evin prison, where hundreds of political prisoners were secretly executed following an order by the founder of the Islamic republic, Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) says at least 142 people were executed in Iran in May, the highest monthly total in eight years, amid a brutal crackdown on dissent that the Norway-based watchdog says is aimed at spreading "societal fear."

Iran carried out 142 executions in May, marking the highest number of people put to death in one month in the country since 2015, a rights group said Thursday.

Following the Wednesday beating of a journalist in Iran by the bodyguards of Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the country's first supreme leader, Iranian reporters are saying that such violent harassment is par for the course with the poor state of media freedom in Iran.

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A Russian intelligence agency has said that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) installed malware on thousands of Apple phones used by Russian citizens and foreign diplomats serving in the country.

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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had disclosed a reconnaissance operation by US intelligence agencies involving several thousand Apple gadgets, including those registered with foreign embassies in Russia.

Thailand's Provincial Electricity Authority plans to switch off power supplies in two sections of southeastern Myanmar early next week at the request of the junta government, officials in Mae Sot district told BenarNews.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is on its way to participate in a multinational exercise to be held in Indonesia next week, as part of Chinese military diplomatic activities that boost understanding, exchanges and communication with foreign militaries to safeguard peace and stability amid rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific region stirred up by the US.

Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu began his visit to Singapore and met Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen on Thursday ahead of the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, laying the groundwork for setting up a hotline between the two countries with the aim of strengthening mutual understanding and trust while enhancing the ASEAN-China defense cooperation.

With a population largely ethnically Chinese, Singapore has grown close to Beijing, which has been its largest trading partner since 2013. In turn, the financial hub has been China's largest foreign investor and has become a key partner in initiatives like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

A pre-dawn Russian missile attack that targeted Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, killed at least three people, including a 9-year-old girl and her mother, and injured 16 others, Ukrainian officials said Thursday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked NATO for a "clear" decision on Ukraine's future with the Western military alliance as another wave of air strikes on Kyiv killed at least three people, including one child, who were shut out of an air-raid shelter.

Two influential Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to change course and back the establishment of a U.N.-sanctioned special tribunal to hold Russian leaders accountable for their invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. lawmakers and a top U.S. diplomat expressed support on May 31 for the creation of an international tribunal separate from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try crimes of aggression that have taken place during the war in Ukraine.

With Ukraine's Children's Day celebrations on Thursday marred by the death of a girl alongside other civilians in a Russian missile attack in the capital Kyiv, the UN's top humanitarian official in the country, Denise Brown, said she was "shocked and saddened" by the incident.

Earlier this week, for the second time in a month, unmanned aerial vehicles - drones of the sort utilized by militaries, spy agencies, and similar entities - were spotted flying over the Russian capital.