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Sunni militants advanced in western Iraq and killed 21 people after security forces left several towns, while Americas ...

Five NATO ships arrived Friday in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda to bolster defence in the region amid tensions with ...

President Vladimir Putin will make his first visit to the Crimean peninsula since Russia annexed the territory in ...

An Australian naval captain has been relieved of his command after his vessel was involved in an incursion into ...

Al-Qaeda has claimed an attack on a Yemeni army headquarters in a tightly secured district of Aden in which 20 people ...

Israel is allow the resumption of diesel deliveries into Gaza on Sunday, a day after the territorys sole power plant ...

Russian soldiers took over parts of a Ukrainian missile defence unit in Crimea on Wednesday, Ukraines defence ...

Nearly 80 Afghan police have died every week during the current fighting season, officials said Tuesday, as the ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has installed General Moeldoko as the commander of the Indonesian Defence Forces ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal to North Korea on Monday to refrain from "any further provocation", ...

Japan has ordered its armed forces to shoot down any North Korean missile headed towards its territory, a defence ...

China has agreed to buy two dozen fighter jets and four submarines from Russia, state media reported Monday, the ...

Taiwan is set to produce 50 medium-range missiles next year that will target military bases in southeast China, a ...

Singapore is in the "final stages of evaluating" the F-35 to upgrade its air force, a process US sources say ...

Russia's Defence Ministry said the power of North Korea's nuclear test blast on Tuesday surpassed seven kilotons, a ...