A J-10C fighter jet equipped with a domestically developed WS-10 Taihang engine reportedly made its first public appearance in a live-fire training session after entering service with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force. This could be an indication that the engine is now technically stable, reliable and mature, …

The U.S. Army will divest all Stryker Mobile Gun Systems by the end of fiscal year 2022. This decision comes after a comprehensive analysis highlighted obsolescence and systemic issues with the system’s dated cannon and automatic loader. While updating and providing new capabilities is most commonly associated with modernization, the …

Turkey’s President said late Thursday that he expects Nigeria to show solidarity with the Palestinian people amid the latest attacks by Israel on Jerusalem and Gaza. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari discussed the necessary international attitude towards Israel in response to the regime’s inhumane attacks on …

Gaza (IP) – As the Gaza health system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases, Authorities cleared out hospital operating rooms, suspended nonessential care and redeployed doctors to patients having difficulty breathing. In Israel, airstrikes and artillery attacks so far, at least 120 Palestinians, including 31 children, have …

The UN Security Council will publicly discuss the worsening Israeli-Palestinian tensions on Sunday. The decision to hold the meeting came after reaching a compromise over US objections to a meeting on Friday. Diplomats said the United States, a close ally of Israel, had initially suggested a virtual public meeting could …

Gaza (IP) -In response to the Israeli regime’s threat of a ground offensive against Gaza, the spokesman for the military branch of the Islamic Jihad Movement stressed that the ground battle was the shortest way for the resistance to victory and that the fate of the Zionist soldiers would be …

Such statements are agreed by consensus. All 15 council members also have to agree to a meeting under rules guiding the body’s virtual operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States has objected to a request by China, Norway and Tunisia for a public, virtual meeting of the United Nations …

Some 2,000 rockets fired since fighting began on Monday. The Israeli Air Force bombed Hamas’s underground tunnel network late Thursday night in the northern Gaza Strip in what military officials said was one of the most aggressive aerial assaults in recent years. In a 40-minute-long air campaign which began around …

Rocket barrage comes as IDF prepares for possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Plans were to be presented on Thursday to Netanyahu. Two rockets hit houses in Sderot beside the Gaza border just as Hamas reportedly said that it is prepared for a “reciprocal ceasefire” as rocket barrages continued …

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed Iran’s readiness to hold close relations with Saudi Arabia. Speaking to reporters in Damascus on Wednesday, the top Iranian diplomat said, “We are and have been always prepared to have close relations with Saudi Arabia.” He said both Iran and the “Syrian brothers” have …