#self defence

Japan will increase military spending in 2013 for the first time in more than a decade, the ruling party said Tuesday, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered Japan`s Self Defense Forces (JSDF) to be fully prepared for any ...

Peace envoy Kofi Annan expressed "grave concern" to Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday and Western nations ...

The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against ...

Sam Lau picks up his sword and waves it in a series of terrifying slashes as he runs towards a student, who retreats ...

The French military confirmed on Wednesday that earlier this month it had air dropped arms shipments to Libyan rebels ...

Israel will do everything necessary to prevent a planned international flotilla from reaching Gaza, despite the fact ...

European happiness with the death of Osama bin Laden was tempered on Wednesday by details showing he was unarmed when ...

Maldives police on Sunday used tear gas and batons to break up a protest by opposition activists demanding President ...

A senior security officer was shot dead at a construction site in north Iraq on Sunday as new figures showed the ...

NATO warplanes intercepted a MiG-23 fighter jet operated by a Libyan rebel pilot on Saturday and forced him to land ...

Japan resumed throwing water at a quake-hit nuclear plant early Saturday to avert a catastrophe in what the head of ...

A Japanese man who was swept 15km out to sea by Japan`s deadly tsunami was plucked to safety on Sunday after being ...

Taiwan plans to slash the number of its troops by 9,200 this year amid warming ties with China, but the cut will be ...

Pakistani intelligence considers that an American in custody nearly month for killing two Pakistani men on ...