U.S. President Barack Obama's defense secretary nominee on Wednesday pledged to protect the nation and its allies in a turbulent world.
Nine people were killed in two clashes Tuesday between Mexican military troops and groups of armed civilians claiming to be self-defense forces.
Japan and the United States announced Friday that they will delay the revision of their defense guidelines planned in the end of this year until the first half of 2015 so as to keep in step with Japan's legislation over the right to collective self-defense, according to local media.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Russia will remain India's "most important" defense partner.
The U.S. rearmament program of cruise missiles poses a main threat to Russia's security as it would have the capability of launching a barrage of up to 7,000 missiles at the first-strike stage against Russia in 2015-2016, a senior Russian air defense designer said Monday.
Israel is in advanced talks to acquire a second batch of F-35 fighter jets from the United States, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday, citing unnamed Israeli defense sources.
Japan and the United States released an interim report on the update of their defense cooperation guideline here on Wednesday, in a bid to expand the scope of cooperation between their militaries by removing the existing geographical limits.
South Korea's defense chief said Tuesday that if the United States deploys its advanced missile- defense system on the Korean Peninsula, it would help his country' s security and defense.
Israeli citizens may be heading out to vote in June 2015, if politicians can't come up with an agreed formula for the 2015 budget.
Japan's Social Democratic Party chief Tadatomo Yoshida said Tuesday that it is the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe himself who worsens the country's security environment.
It would be "foolish" for Australia to let itself to be drawn into any kind of strategic alignment with Japan that would be directed against China, warned Hugh White, a renowned Australian strategist.
The Japanese government has launched a special team under the National Security Secretariat to prepare relevant legislation for exercising the collective self-defense right following the Cabinet's decision the previous day to lift the ban on it, local media reported Wednesday.
China on Tuesday urged Japan to respect Asian neighbors' security concerns and not to harm China's sovereignty and security interests as Japan approved a resolution to allow it a larger military role in Asia.
The Japanese government on Friday submitted its final draft decision on lifting the ban on collective self-defense to the ruling bloc, which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet expects to approve as early as July 1, local media reported.
Japan began to promote its enterprises to proactively involve in joint international development of weapons, including fighters, according to a new defense industry strategy adopted by Japan's Defense Ministry on Thursday.
The secretaries-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner New Komeito agreed Wednesday that a Cabinet decision to enable Japan to exercise collective self-defense right is hard to come before the current Diet session which ends Sunday, local media reported.
Japan and Australia Wednesday held their 5th round of "two-plus-two" talks involving foreign and defense chiefs from both sides and vowed to enhance bilateral security and defense cooperation, especially in the area of submarine technology transfer.
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