The purge was part of a colossal effort to stamp out corruption in China’s military ranks. Since Mr Xi took power 14 years ago, he has dismissed hundreds of officers and filed criminal charges against ...

The Doomsday Clock is ticking ever more loudly as arms control mechanisms fail and leaders become more reckless. The time to be alarmed is now, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall ...

US President Donald Trump said that Iran is “seriously talking” with Washington. Meanwhile, security has been tightened, and law enforcement forces are increasing their presence across Iran, including ...

The New START treaty is set to end on 5 February. Without it, there would be no constraints on long-range nuclear arsenals for the first time since Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign ...

Merz’s response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler’s programmatic speeches in the early 1930s.

Satellite images reveal activity at two Iranian nuclear sites, suggesting that Tehran may be obscuring its efforts to salvage ...

The move was the third time the Trump administration has tried to expedite arms shipments to Israel by going around the ...

T he Trump administration is contemplating another attack on a foreign adversary, using a familiar script. Once again, the ...

GETTING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER: Besides the aircraft carrier Lincoln, the U.S. has positioned at least eight other warships in the region. “We have a lot of very big, very powerful ships sailing to Iran ...

Trump's new National Defense strategy positions Israel as a "model ally" in Middle East doctrine, fundamentally reshaping U.S ...

Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are neither safely deterred nor meaningfully disarmed.

President Trump likes to take credit for persuading NATO to spend 5% of GDP on defense, but in 2025 he didn’t ask Congress to ...