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In what has become a force of habit for President Donald Trump, he announced the termination of his Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and the appointment of his replacement, Christopher Miller, by tweet: “I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism …

Christopher C. Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will take on the defense secretary role “effective immediately,” Trump tweeted.  “Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service,” he added. Rumors have circulated for months that Esper would either be fired or resign. In June, he …

Speaking on a conference call put together by The Arab Council for Regional Integration, Gantz accused Turkey, a country Israel has a trade relationship with, of helping to destabilize the region and working against peace efforts, including Tel-Aviv’s September deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was brokered by …

Around 2,300 “enemy personnel” have been killed or wounded since fighting broke out on Sunday, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported. Officials added that an Armenian S-300 air defense missile system was destroyed at the frontline in Karabakh, along with around 130 tanks and more than 200 artillery pieces. Yerevan had previously …

Officials in Yerevan said the incident took place in Armenian airspace and that the pilot of the Su-25 pilot was killed. The attack comes hours after Ankara said that it would help Azerbaijan repel “Armenian aggression,” offering both diplomatic and military assistance. Armenia said earlier that it was prepared to …

“I would have rather taken [Assad] out,” Trump told Fox & Friends on Tuesday, insisting “I had him all set,” but “Mattis didn’t want to do it.” The admission flies in the face of Trump’s 2018 claim during a White House briefing that the suggestion of killing Assad was “never …

Speaking to Russian TV on Sunday, Shoigu noted a sharp increase in foreign surveillance and training flights testing the country’s borders and air defenses. Last month such activities increased by some 30 percent compared to last August. Moreover, the bloc’s aircraft have been actively training in conducting air strikes , routinely …

The Ministry of defence of Ukraine stated about the sharp aggravation of the situation in Donbass from the beginning of the present day. Reported sighting the 12 attacks of positions of the joint forces. “In addition to 12 the impact of attacks on our positions from the beginning of the …

Japan has decided to abandon the plan to deploy the country’s missile defence of the us production of Aegis Ashore. This was announced at a meeting on the security of the ruling liberal democratic party, Japan’s defense Minister Taro Kono, the Agency Kyodo. According to the Minister, the decision was …

The Russian government continues to increase public spending on defense and security forces, despite a sharp deterioration in the Federal budget, which in may was faced with a 3-fold decrease of oil and gas revenues. For the first five months 2020 military expenditures reached 1,409 trillion rubles, it follows from …