President Trump opened a small window for diplomacy with Iran on Wednesday, but combined his words with bald threats that made it hard to see how the two countries could break out of their cycle of co...
By David E. Sanger/ New York Times News Service
in New York
Over an intense half-hour before dawn on Wednesday, Iran bombed targets in Iraq, striking in and around two large military bases that house thousands of Iraqi and American servicemen and women.But whe...
By Alissa J. Rubin/New York Times News Service
in Baghdad
President Donald Trump used his biggest stage of the year to announce he will hold his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.Trump announced during his State of the Union address that he ...
Former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi has said that any unavoidable announcement once the model code of conduct has kicked in should ideally be made by an official and not the minister so t...
Pakistan and China on Wednesday articulated the hope that all countries would uphold peace and tranquility in outer space, after India demonstrated its capability to bring down a satellite.Likening In...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement of India’s successful anti-satellite missile test two weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections has left some defence ministry officials amused, b...
India on Wednesday used a homegrown missile to destroy a satellite 300km above the Earth, demonstrating a technology intended to bolster defence through deterrence and hitherto available only with Chi...
New activity has been detected at a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles plant, South Korean media said on Thursday, as US President Donald Trump said he would be very disappointed if Pyon...
A military base deep inside Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, experts and satellite images suggest, evidence of the type of weapons programme it has lon...