Senior defense officials from Indonesia and Pakistan have agreed to expand bilateral defense cooperation. Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin met with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, in the capital Islamabad. According to Pakistan-based The Nation newspaper, the meeting—attended by senior military officials—addressed developments in regional and global security dynamics, and the two...
Israeli military spokesperson Effie Defrin stated that the protests in Iran are “an internal matter,” while emphasizing that Israel remains on alert against surprise scenarios from a defense perspective. Despite saying, “The protests in Iran are an internal issue,” Defrin said that the military is prepared and on high alert regarding Iran in case of...
Statements made recently by the administration of US President Donald Trump regarding Greenland are creating uncertainty within NATO, Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson said on Monday. “Of course, we are affected by the Trump administration’s statements about Greenland, which are also generating uncertainty within the alliance,” Jonson told media. Jonson added that “being unpredictable toward...
On 12 January 2026, at the Vienna International Centre, the Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), Ambassador Kubanychbek Omuraliev, met with Driss El Hadani, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). During the meeting, potential areas of cooperation between the Organization of Turkic States and the United...
The European Union will have to negotiate with Russia at some point, European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho said on Monday. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday that Europe must start talking to Russia about Ukraine and called for the appointment of an EU special envoy for the Ukrainian settlement. “Obviously, at some point...
Enterprises of the Russian defense industry have fulfilled all tasks set in the state defense orders, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said on Monday. “Regarding the defense-industrial complex. Our enterprises have overall fulfilled all tasks of the state defense order. A special emphasis we have been and will continue to place on armaments...
Nordic countries have refuted US President Donald Trump’s claims about Russian and Chinese vessels operating near Greenland, which he cited to justify his plans to take control of the island, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing two senior Nordic diplomats with access to NATO intelligence. “It is simply not true that the Chinese and...
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said on Sunday that his country has been under attack by the United States for 66 years and is ready to defend itself to the last drop of blood. Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump said that Cuba would no longer receive Venezuelan oil as compensation for...
The United States will launch unprecedented strikes against Iran if Tehran attacks US military and commercial facilities, US President Donald Trump said. “If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they have never been hit before, and they won’t even believe it. I have options, and they are so strong,” he told...
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the US Justice Department was threatening him with criminal indictment as part of pressure from the Trump administration. “On Friday, the Justice Department served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. That...