The U.S. Space Force has completed a two-satellite surveillance network over the Indo-Pacific, closing out the first national security space partnership between the United States and Japan with the August 10 launch of a second American sensor aboard a Japanese navigation satellite.
A grenade thrown into a school courtyard in western Kabul wounded at least 52 people on Monday, most of them children, in an attack on a private institution serving the city’s Shia Hazara community.
Moroccan security forces arrested hundreds of migrants near the border town of Fnideq on Saturday, disrupting a second coordinated attempt to enter Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta. This comes two weeks after roughly 80,000 people crossed into the territory in a surge that killed nearly 100.
A U.S. Navy helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles into a Panama-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday, disabling the vessel as it transited a waterway now governed by the American blockade of Iran.
An attacker on a Zoom call could have seized control of every other participant’s device without a single click from the target, using a flaw that an Israeli-founded offensive-security firm found and weaponized in under a day with publicly available AI models.
A Ukrainian firm has unveiled a reusable interceptor drone that snares enemy aircraft in a net rather than destroying itself on impact, a design aimed squarely at the fiber-optic drones that Russian electronic warfare cannot touch.
Robert Gilman, a 32-year-old former U.S. Marine held in Russia since 2022, is near death after spending roughly seven weeks in a dissociative stupor, a stress-induced state in which a person becomes unresponsive.
A Chinese Long March 7A rocket exploded roughly 85 seconds after liftoff from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on August 10, destroying its payload and triggering a fleet-wide review of the engine that powers most of China’s modern launch vehicles.
DARPA has asked industry to design a cheap, mass-producible next-generation air-breathing hypersonic cruise missile (NGHCM) built to penetrate advanced enemy air defenses. The agency posted this official request for information to SAM.gov on August 7, and industry responses are due October 6.
The Pentagon has given weapons manufacturers 21 days to submit plans for accelerating production of missiles and interceptors, after five months of fighting with Iran cut deeply into stockpiles that were already considered thin.
Two men convicted over the death of PC Andrew Harper remain eligible for early release under the Government's prison policy, prompting renewed anger from his family, police colleagues and campaigners.