The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.
As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in...
BEIJING - China's booming economy will underpin the modernization of its military - a process Beijing wants to carry out without foreign help, the country's defense minister said in reports on Dec. 29.
"In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military...
Over the course of two years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as ink to transcribe a copy of the Koran.
Since the fall of Baghdad, the so-called 'Blood Koran' has stayed...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Three American missile attacks killed 54 alleged militants Friday close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials said.
The attacks took place in the Khyber...
Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto proposed a new defense policy under which SDF troops would be dispatched into NK to rescue kidnapped Japanese citizens held in NK in cooperation with ROK government in the event of another war in Korea.
This is the first time Japanese government proposed...
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...
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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French provided satellite intelligence after the US refused to
A new arsenal of drones and satellite-guided weapons is changing the nature of warfare. America and its NATO allies possess these high-tech weapons, but smaller countries want them, too. Here's an inside glimpse of how the...
Highly placed sources in Washington have revealed that United States President Barack Obama is likely to stop over for a few hours in Pakistan on his way to India.
While Obama had announced that he would be visiting Pakistan in 2011, sources said that the pressure on the President by Pakistan...
Turkey's national security council removes Iran, Syria from list of threats to state, adds Israel, local media reported. Document says Israeli actions may prompt Middle East arms race
The Turkish national security council recently designated Israel as a "major threat" in a document known as...
Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles
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President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile...