Over the last two weeks, every household in Sweden received a booklet of instructions on how to prepare for war. Issued by the government and including...
In China’s northwest Xinjiang province, the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority have nowhere to hide. Facial recognition software reportedly alerts...
In its five months in Syria last year, a single U.S. Marine Corps artillery battalion fired more shells than any equivalent American military unit since...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited the Middle East last weekend with two simple aims – to wrap Iraq into America’s regional axis...
How will Vladimir Putin respond to the growing challenges against him? The Russian president, who turns 65 in October, might presently look unassailable – but...
If President Donald Trump wanted to make an impression with his first visit to Europe last week, he unquestionably succeeded. In their own ways, German...
WASHINGTON: Whether Washington likes it or not, Shiite Iran, a key ally of the governments of Iraq and Syria, is all but certain to be a major player in the...
WASHINGTON: As fighting between the army and Russian-backed rebels rages in eastern Ukraine, preparations are under way near its western border for a joint...
WASHINGTON: If Russia and Ukraine slide into outright war, the United States and allies will face tough choices on how to support a friendly state they have...
WASHINGTON: After more than a decade focused on combating Islamist militancy, Western military planners are once again contemplating potential war between...
LONDON: Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments...
The search for flight MH370, the Malaysian Airlines jetliner that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved more than two dozen countries and...
LONDON: With Western powers increasingly concluding Ukraine has lost Crimea to Russia, the U.S. and its allies face few viable options and serious questions...
LONDON: Saudi Arabia beat Britain to become the world's fourth largest defense spender in 2013, a report said on Wednesday, as Western cuts and Asian and...
LONDON: More than two years after the death of Osama bin Laden, the turbulent aftermath of the “Arab Spring” has helped his group – or more...
LONDON: The chaotic fallout of the “Arab Spring” is fueling a surge in the smuggling of drugs, weapons and people across the Mediterranean, and cash-strapped...
LONDON: When NATO forces start a major exercise in Latvia and Poland this weekend, they will be rehearsing how to oust an anonymous invading enemy from a...
WASHINGTON: From his home in the English town of Leicester, former business administrator Elliot Higgins trawls through sometimes hundreds of online videos a...
WASHINGTON: Striking Islamist militants with drones, supporting African forces in stabilizing Somalia and Mali and deploying dozens of training teams, the...
LONDON: As it tries to play Russia off against Europe to salvage its economy, Cyprus has embarked on a high-stakes poker game that could see almost everyone...
LONDON: France, Britain and the United States are inching towards providing military aid to Syria's rebels, hoping to beef up more secular forces at the...
DUBAI/DOHA: In the centre of Cairo, young men hold up a burning flag for the cameras to show their fury at a nation they believe is meddling in their country...
ABOARD RMS QUEEN MARY 2: Posted between septuagenarian passengers in deck chairs, lookouts stand watch over the Gulf of Aden, scanning the horizon for...
DUBAI: The revolts that began in Tunisia at the end of 2010 and spread across the Middle East and North Africa had a devastating impact on tourism, but not...
PORT SAID, Egypt: Egypt has seen no shortage of empires come and go, from its own ancient civilisations to those of Greece, Rome, Britain and France. Now, it...