


NATO has launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening its operational awareness in the Arctic, underlining how rapidly the High North has moved from a peripheral concern to a central theatre in the alliance’s strategic calculations. The departure of the…

Ukrainian forces have struck fuel facilities and a key road bridge linking occupied Crimea with occupied southern Ukraine, in what appears to be an expanding effort to disrupt Russian military logistics across the peninsula. Ukraine has reported a new series…

A NATO cyber simulation in Poland has shown how quickly attacks on energy, banking and public information systems can merge into a single crisis, with allied officials testing responses to a Russia-style campaign shaped by Ukraine’s wartime experience. The three-day…

Israel’s interception of two projectiles fired from Lebanon has underlined the fragility of the latest ceasefire effort on the Israel-Lebanon front, only days after the European Union approved new military support for the Lebanese Armed Forces. The Israeli military said…

The revelation that Britain’s entire available fleet of hunter-killer submarines has reportedly been confined to dockyards for maintenance and repair should have triggered a political earthquake. Instead, it has been greeted with the sort of weary resignation that has become…

Radiation levels remained within normal limits after a Russian drone damaged a building at Ukraine’s centralised spent nuclear fuel storage site, officials said. Russia struck a building at Ukraine’s Centralised Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near Chornobyl in the early…

The leaders of Britain, France and Germany are meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in London in a renewed attempt to coordinate European support for Ukraine and define the security guarantees that could underpin any future settlement with Russia. The talks, hosted…

China has opened a new point of maritime pressure east of Taiwan after launching what Beijing described as a special maritime law-enforcement operation in response to planned boundary talks between Japan and the Philippines. The operation, announced through Chinese state…

The United States has urged Taiwan to spend more effectively on defence and prioritise unmanned systems after Taiwan’s parliament approved only part of a major supplementary defence package requested by President Lai Ching-te. Raymond Greene, director of the American Institute…

Turkey is seeking a larger role in Western defence markets as European governments increase military spending, expand procurement and reassess their dependence on the United States for long-term security guarantees. The shift reflects both Turkey’s growing defence-industrial capacity and the…