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          Defence

          HMS Lancaster's sailors and Royal Marines posing with the haul of illegal narcotics. PA

          British navy warship seizes drugs worth £30m from smugglers in Gulf

          UKMay 30, 2025
          UK Defence Secretary John Healey welcomes Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in London. Photo: UK's Ministry of Defence

          UK and Saudi Arabia discuss defence as Tempest jet project progresses

          UKMay 29, 2025
          The National

          Shadi's take on EU approval for a new $170 billion arms fund

          CartoonMay 27, 2025
          The baptism site of Jesus Christ on the Jordan River in the West Bank, pictured in 2016. Once surrounded by hundreds of mines laid during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, an operation by The Halo Trust to remove them ended successfully in April 2020. Heidi Levine for The National

          Defence and aid are two sides of the same coin

          CommentMay 21, 2025
          UAE Armed Forces honour guards participate in the departure of Australian Governor General Sam Mostyn at Al Shati Palace. UAE Presidential Court

          The UAE Armed Forces are a symbol of unity and resolve

          CommentMay 06, 2025
          Israeli emergency workers clear a road outside Ben Gurion airport after a missile launched from Yemen struck on May 4. AFP

          'Israel got lucky': More Houthi missiles expected after Ben Gurion attack

          MENAMay 05, 2025
          Scale AI chief executive Alexandr Wang defended the company's AI assistance with US national security entities. Photo: CSIS

          Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang describes ‘moral imperative’ for his company to work on military solutions

          TechnologyMay 02, 2025
          Germany's chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, Friedrich Merz, left, and co-leader of the Social Democratic Party, Lars Klingbeil. Reuters

          German government takes shape as SPD backs coalition deal

          EuropeMay 01, 2025
          A fighter jet takes off at Israel's Hatzerim Airbase. Israel's military expenditure surged 65 per cent to $46.5 billion in 2024, the steepest annual increase since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Reuters

          Israel's military spending soars amid sharp rise in global expenditure

          EconomyApril 27, 2025
          US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth faces renewed criticism over his use of the Signal messaging app. AFP

          Calls for Pete Hegseth’s removal grow after further leak of mission specifics

          USApril 21, 2025
          The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. EPA

          US to send second aircraft carrier strike group to Middle East

          USApril 01, 2025
          An artist rendering of the F-47, the US's sixth generation warplane. US Air Force / Reuters

          What is the F-47? The US’s sixth-generation fighter plane

          USMarch 21, 2025
          The National

          Shadi’s take on a boost in Europe’s defence spending

          CartoonMarch 19, 2025
          A Lithuanian soldier prepares to catch a Parrot reconnaissance drone landing during a military exercise near Hohenfels, Germany. Getty

          To defend itself, Europe needs to buy European – but that’s easier said than done

          CommentMarch 18, 2025
          A B-52 Stratofortress similar to this flew over the Middle East earlier this week. AFP

          US Air Force flies B-52 bomber over Middle East

          USMarch 06, 2025
          The National

          Shadi's take on cuts to Britain's foreign aid budget

          CartoonFebruary 26, 2025
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