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Iran and the bomb: Does Tehran really want nuclear weapons?

Iran is well aware of the deep hostility that its neighbors and the Trump administration and Iran’s neighbours have towards…

Opinion Editor

Google will not use artificial intelligence for weapons, CEO Sundar Pichai says

Google announced it will not use artificial intelligence for weapons or to "cause or directly facilitate injury to people," as…

Fergus Kelly

Turkey’s thirst for power threatens water war with Iraq

Iraq, including Kurdistan, relies on the Euphrates and Tigris for 98 percent of its water. Hydroelectric dam building in Turkey…

Diliman Abdulkader

Afghan President Ghani announces temporary unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced a temporary ceasefire with the Taliban coinciding with the end of the Ramadan holiday

Joanne Stocker

NATO and Rafael carry out unmanned surface vehicle missile exercise off Israeli coast

Rafael and NATO carried out joint training of the Protector unmanned surface vehicle off the Israeli coast this month, demonstrating…

Joanne Stocker

From 4×30 readiness to Russia’s resurgence, NATO defense ministers face hectic meeting schedule

Ahead of the NATO defense ministers meeting, Drake Long looks at Turkey, Russia and other hot-button issues likely to come…

Drake Long

Five Kenyan police killed in roadside bomb blast near Somalia border

Five Kenyan paramilitary police officers were killed after their vehicle struck a homemade landmine in Liboi, close to the eastern…

Staff Writer With AFP

Sweden mobilizes 22,000 home guard reservists for major military exercise

Marking its national day, Sweden called up 22,000 reservists for an exercise of a scale not seen in 40 years…

Staff Writer With AFP

Suspected Mozambique jihadists kill 7 people with ‘machetes,’ burn 164 homes

Suspected jihadists hacked seven people to death with machetes and set dozens of homes on fire in northern Mozambique, police…

Staff Writer With AFP

Biji Manbij? US and Turkey plan for the Syrian city’s future without the YPG

After months of talks and threats of military action against the strongest force fighting ISIS in Syria, the U.S. and…

Joanne Stocker