Warlike rhetoric and threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will strengthen South Korean military's will to retaliate against the DPRK's provocations, Seoul's Defense Ministry said Friday.
The Syrian government troops have started a large-scale offensive on the northern outskirts of Damascus, after tightening the screws on rebels in the southern rim of the capital.
The Syrian troops backed by a big firepower unleashed on Sunday a military operation to storm a key town in the northern outskirts of the capital Damascus after fully besieging it, as the rebels rained down Damascus with mortars as part of their reprisal.
The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it was "recalibrating" part of its 1.5 billion U.S. dollars of annual aid to Egypt in response to the situation in the country, holding the delivery of certain large-scale military systems and some cash assistance to the government.
The Israeli military confirmed that its forces destroyed a Syrian cannon post in the northern Golan Heights on Wednesday in response to mortar fire that earlier wounded two Israeli soldiers.
Russia would increase spending on its nuclear arsenals by 50 percent in the next three years, a parliamentary defense committee said Tuesday.
A series of joint military drills between the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft started on Tuesday morning at an SDF training field in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga, the country's Kyodo News Agency reported.
The U.S. military conducted an operation in Somalia Friday night against Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, known as "Ikrima," a top commander in the al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab, but failed to capture him, the Pentagon said Monday.
Chinese military officials will be required to go through a thorough audit before they are promoted or retire, the Central Military Commission said in a guideline Tuesday.
The U.S. Senate delayed a test vote Monday on authorizing a limited military strike on Syria, amid signs of a possible breakthrough in international diplomacy to seek a political solution.
The Israeli Defense Forces stationed an Iron Dome anti-missile battery near Jerusalem, a military spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.
Facing opposition from some lawmakers and a skeptical public, President Barack Obama is intensifying an effort to swing the public opinion on his plan to attack Syria, with planned TV interviews and a major speech to the public next week.
A possible U.S. military strike against Syria should not overshadow major economic agenda of the ongoing Group of Twenty (G20) summit, representatives from civil societies said Thursday.
Possible U.S. attack on Syria will be "in nobody's interest," Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday a military strike against Syria for alleged chemical weapons use is not about President Barack Obama's "red line," but because the use of chemical weapons cannot be tolerated.
Visiting head of Iran's parliament' s foreign policy committee said Tuesday he agrees with Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour that there is a "U.S. plot against the region's security and stability."
The U.S. Congress is not a legitimate source to issue a permit for military intervention in Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Sunday.
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