Defence`s Feeds

Britain has sanctioned 14 Russian officials, including two government ministers, for what it says is their role in Russia's forced relocation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children since the start of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February last year.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has announced 14 new sanctions in response to Russia's attempts to destroy Ukrainian national identity.

The Government has adopted a new strategy for Sweden's recovery and reform cooperation with Ukraine for 2023-2027. The strategy will provide a total of approximately EUR 522 million (SEK 6 billion) and is Sweden's largest-ever bilateral development assistance strategy.

The Swiss Confederation is using Swiss expertise to support humanitarian demining in Ukraine. It supports the Ukrainian authorities' activities and contributes to the clearance of mines and unexploded ordnance through projects carried out by the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and the Fondation suisse de déminage (FSD).

Russia said Monday it is ending its participation in a nearly year-old agreement that allowed Ukraine safe passage to export its grains from three Ukrainian ports past Russian warships on the Black Sea.

Russia said Monday it is ending its participation in a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine safe passage to export grain from three Ukrainian ports past Russian warships on the Black Sea.

It began in 1992 with a brief conversation between two general officers about how to help emerging democracies following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.

Throughout the month of July, approximately 6,000 U.S. Marines from I Marine Expeditionary Force are dispersed across Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Republic of Palau as they participate in a wide range of exercises, community projects, key leader engagements, and subject matter expert exchanges.

UNITAS LXIV is officially underway. The opening ceremony of the world's longest-running multinational maritime exercise formally launched this year's iteration on July 12, 2023.

A joint vision statement has been signed between the heads of the Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, and the United States Air Force, setting out their mutual intent to work collaboratively on the development of their countries' Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft.

When the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghanistan's Shi'ite Hazara minority feared that the historically persecuted community would once again become the main target of Taliban atrocities.

Women in the western Afghan city of Herat say they have been harassed and threatened by members of the Taliban's notorious morality police for not wearing the hijab, or Islamic head scarf.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has announced the Islamic Republic's readiness to contribute to the advancement of regional initiatives on the issue of Afghanistan under the auspices of the United Nations.

Azerbaijan's Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev says his country is intent on expanding trade and economic ties with Iran despite political rifts caused by an attack in late January on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran.

The ongoing war between Sudan's military and a paramilitary force has placed the country in jeopardy of not being able to feed itself and has thrown many people into deeper depths of hunger and poverty, according to a Reuters report.

Vietnamese authorities reportedly have heightened security and increased the persecution of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands after a deadly attack last month on government buildings there.

The UN World Food Program (WFP) says it won't be able to provide assistance to one-hundred thousand people who are in urgent need of assistance in Haiti, unless it receives immediate funding.

Americas The US Navy has taken delivery of the second John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler, the USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206), from General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. The handover follows the completion of acceptance trials to assess the vessel’s readiness and overall capability. The Brazilian Air Force 1st Air Defense Group (1st GDA) […]

Jesse Choi, son of Sunwah Group CEO Jonathan Choi, and director of the group's South East Asia branch, has been meeting with foreign diplomats, mostly French and British, and Vietnamese Cambodian officials in Ho Chi Minh City over the past

Over the past week, China has deployed numerous Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) underwater drones from its base on the