A joint U.S.-Japanese military exercise in the Sea of Japan was suspended when two Russian Il-38 May anti-submarine aircraft flew over the area, the NHK channel said on Wednesday citing the Japanese defense ministry.
The biennial Keen Sword drills were suspended amid fears that the Russian...
ISLAMABAD Pakistan is expecting breakthrough regarding establishment of 1 gigawatt (GW) nuclear power plant during the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabaos three-day visit to Pakistan starting from December 17, official sources said on Monday.
According to the highly placed governmental and...
Secret American intelligence assessments have concluded that Iran has obtained a cache of advanced missiles, based on a Russian design, that are much more powerful than anything Washington has publicly conceded that Tehran has in its arsenal, diplomatic cables show.
Iran obtained 19 of the...
US trying to remove enriched Pak uranium: WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON: US diplomatic cables released on Sunday show that since 2007 the United States has been engaged in a secret effort to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor. According to the documents released by a...
This Sunday, during French Naval Ops off Pakistan (to support allied ops in Afghanistan), a French aircraft Rafale crashed into the sea (100 miles off Pakistan). Fortunately, the pilot was able to eject and was recovered by french SAR helico from the Carrier "Charle de Gaulle"
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Artillery Heard in North Korea; U.S. Carrier Enters Yellow Sea
By Sungwoo Park and Bomi Lim
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Residents of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island were ordered to bomb shelters after artillery shots were heard on the North Korean mainland and U.S. warships began naval...
North Korea readies missiles as U.S.-South Korea drill begins
YEONPYEONG, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, as the United States and South Korea began joint military...
BEIJING – This weekend's arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea poses a dilemma for Beijing: Should it protest angrily and aggravate ties with Washington, or quietly accept the presence of a key symbol of American military pre-eminence off Chinese shores?
The USS George...