Defence`s Feeds

At least 20 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, as torrential downpours continue to batter northern China on Wednesday, as the Chinese capital saw its heaviest rainfall since records began 140 years ago.

Fortifications are being actively constructed near the tent camp of the private Wagner mercenary group in the village of Tsel in eastern Belarus, the site believed to be where troops from Yevgeny Prigozhin's company have settled after its aborted mutiny in Russia in late June.

The Agricultural Commission of the DPRK intensifies the technical guidance to ensure that all the farms cultivate the crops in a sci-tech way to actively cope with the changes of weather.

China's security ministry has opened its official account on the country's popular everything app, urging its citizens to participate in counter-espionage work.

The United States is pushing back at a Chinese government initiative that encourages its nationals to participate in counterespionage activities. The State Department said on Wednesday that encouraging citizens to spy on each other is "something that's of great concern."

After China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) debuted on WeChat on Tuesday, calling on the whole society to contribute to counter-espionage efforts, the agency released detailed guidelines on Thursday on how to report and where to report suspected spy activities while emphasizing the importance of punishing espionage and protecting human rights.

The Taiwan High Court on Monday approved a motion filed by prosecutors to detain an Army lieutenant colonel and hold him incommunicado on suspicion of recruiting military officers to collect military intelligence for China.

Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, has lauded the Iranian government for countering a disinformation campaign by adversaries to tarnish public opinion about the country's nuclear activities.

The first day of the naval exercises of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) kicked off on Wednesday morning in Abu Musa island while featuring the Qadir cruise missile system, unmanned vessels equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), and the Fath ballistic missile.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has launched drills to show its power and combat defense readiness in protecting the security of the Persian Gulf as well as the country's islands.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on Wednesday started a naval wargame in Iran's Abu Musa isand focusing on strong defense for Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has received the Qadir cruise missile and the Fath-360 ballistic missile equipped with artificial intelligence (AI).

Only two days earlier, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif dropped hints about the Islamic Republic's plans to unveil "new strategic systems and capabilities" for maritime defense.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) appears to be preparing measures to ward off the possibility of renewed unrest as the one-year anniversary aproaches of the death of Masha Amini, who died in September 2022 while in police custody for an alleged hijab violation.

Junta troops have detained 17 civilians from a village in Myanmar's southernmost Tanintharyi region, locals told RFA Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Russian navy has kicked off its live fire naval exercise in the Baltic Sea, involving more than 50 vessels and 30 aircraft.

Late last month, the authorities in Serbia refused to extend the long-term residency there of St. Petersburg district councilman Vladimir Volokhonsky.

A military court in Moscow has sentenced 12 associates of a notorious gangster from Russia's North Ossetia region in the North Caucasus to prison terms between 12 years and life.

The "Ocean Shield 2023" military drills have begun in the Baltic Sea, involving more than 30 Russian Navy warships and vessels, as well as 30 aircraft and about 6,000 military personnel, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday.