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Newly appointed Mossad director Roman Gofman has removed two senior officials who designed a failed operation to overthrow Iran’s government, according to reporters. One had led the agency’s intelligence directorate since December; the other headed its Iran division. Security sources say Gofman and the pair clashed from the outset, though the departures are being framed […]

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, binding three of the Sunni Muslim world’s most influential states as Middle East turmoil escalates. The “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement” states that an armed attack against any one signatory would be treated as an attack on all, according to a joint

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was driven in the back of an armoured personnel carrier to a wartime command centre during a late-night phase of the island’s annual Han Kuang exercises, his office said on Thursday. Images released showed Lai in body armour and a helmet. It was the first time a sitting president has personally

German police say a drone carrying an explosive device was found at Leipzig/Halle Airport, a key hub for NATO military transport and Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines. An employee spotted the device overnight near parked Ukrainian cargo planes. A police robot removed the detonator, and authorities later carried out a controlled explosion. A second unidentified object reportedly

The U.S. Army has used up much of its global stockpile of long-range precision missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data. The weapons are principally the Army’s surface-to-surface ATACMS and newer Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). Two sources said the U.S. has used “virtually all” of them. Each

Ahead of four state elections this September, a Russian influence operation known as Matryoshka, also called Operation Overload, is flooding social media with fabricated content aimed at German candidates. DW Fact Check has identified more than 180 fake posts on X, Bluesky and TikTok, working from an archive kept by the investigative collective Antibot4Navalny. The

Chinese military researchers have utilized outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models, including those developed by OpenAI and Anthropic, to train domestic systems for defense purposes. This finding is based on a review by Reuters of over 80 Chinese academic papers and patents, along with additional research compiled by the Jamestown Foundation, based in Washington.

Gardaí have charged two individuals following the interception of a suspected New IRA bomb near the Irish border. A car was stopped on the main Dublin to Derry road near Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. During a search, officers discovered a bag on the rear seat containing Semtex, a military-grade explosive, along with a detonator. Isobella Perrie

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested a Russian citizen on suspicion of spying for New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS). The individual, born in 1971 and residing in Khabarovsk in Russia’s far east, has been placed in custody. According to the FSB, the man “proactively established” contact with the NZSIS and transmitted information that