Defence`s Feeds

"Over the past several days, children have again been killed and injured in attacks in the Russian Federation and across Ukraine.

State media released footage on Tuesday showing the PLA Air Force's systematic application of three types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which provide intelligence support to the PLA Army, Navy and Rocket Force. Among the three, the GJ-3A armed reconnaissance drones made its first public appearance.

Several people were reported killed and injured in clashes between armed groups in the western Libyan cities of Surman and Zawiya on Tuesday amid reports of a jailbreak, Anadolu Agency reported citing the local reports and authorities.

Britain will be better protected from undersea threats and hundreds of jobs will be secured through a new £135 million contract to maintain and repair Royal Navy torpedo weapons.

Results may be months away, but efforts are advancing towards enhanced treatment and the world's first vaccine for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday as deaths and cases rise in the largest ever outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The Cheongung-II, a homegrown mid-range surface-to-air missile system (M-SAM-II), has begun operations.

President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) on Tuesday called on the international community to take a unified stance against China's Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, promulgated last month.

Papua New Guinea's decision to close Taiwan's trade office in Port Moresby is puzzling from a diplomatic standpoint, but it signals a coming expansion of its economic relationship with China, experts told Radio Free Asia.

South Korea on Tuesday protested Japan's continued territorial claims to the islets lying halfway between the two countries, called Dokdo by South Korea and Takeshima by Japan.

A visit by officials from Afghanistan's unrecognized Taliban government to Moldova has triggered a political storm in the small Eastern European country.

Afghanistan's dire hunger crisis now affects 14 million people including babies fed on little more than weak tea and bread by their despairing and dirt-poor parents.

The Philippine government continues to reject China's declaration of Bajo de Masinloc as a "nature reserve," warning Beijing against implementation of any measure in the feature.

Gaza remains unsafe for civilians as Israeli attacks continue, including on schools and canvas classrooms, despite the October Israel-Hamas ceasefire that ended two years of war, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Tuesday.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says a deal with Iran on opening the Strait of Hormuz, a key global energy shipping lane, is near.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has rejected rumors of his resignation, emphasizing that he will not resign and will continue to work resolutely.

Iran and Oman are continuing talks on establishing safe shipping arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says.

Major General Mohsen Rezaei said Iran will "under no circumstances" allow a second corridor to be opened in the Strait of Hormuz, Fars News reported.

The secretary-general of Hezbollah emphasized that Iran has prevailed in its confrontation with the United States and the Zionist regime and thwarted their goals in the region.

Prominent imprisoned political activist Mostafa Tajzadeh has issued a statement from inside Iran's notorious Evin Prison calling on Iranian authorities to "immediately end the execution of young people," warning that the accelerated pace of hangings risks pushing the country toward internal conflict.

The growing strategic partnership between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea has become one of the defining security challenges facing the United States and its allies. In their recently published book Axis of Aggressors, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery and his co-authors Bradley Bowman and Elaine Dezenski document more than 600 instances of cooperation among the four authoritarian states, arguing their coordination extends across military, technological, economic, and cyber domains.