TANMEN, China — In the disputed waters of the South China Sea, fishermen are the wild card. China is using its vast fishing fleet as the advance guard to press its expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea, experts say. That is not only putting Beijing on a collision course with its Asian neighbors, but also introducing a degree of unpredictability that raises the risks of periodic crises. In the past few weeks, tensions…
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China has deployed fighter jets to Woody Island in the South China Sea, building up military hardware on an island in the disputed region, according to a US media source. Satellite imagery from April 7, published by Fox News and verified by US defence officials on Tuesday, showed two Chinese Shenyang J-11 fighter jets on Woody Island. The discovery of the jets and fire control system on Woody Island come as Australia participates in annual…
The US-led coalition fighting IS in Syria and Iraq has put the militant group on the defensive says President Barack Obama. London: The US-led international military coalition’s bid to recapture Mosul from Islamic State will be a “difficult fight” and is still “some time away”, the official spokesman Colonel Steve Warren says. In an interview with Fairfax Media, Operation Inherent Resolve’s official spokesman identified Mosul, north of Baghdad, as the next “big-ticket item” for international…
The Taliban group leaders are convening key meetings in their safe havens inside the Pakistani soil, a top Afghan defense official said Wednesday. The Chief of Army Staff General Qadam Shah Shaheem told reporters in Kabul that the Taliban gatherings, including meetings to pledge allegiance are taking place in Pakistan. Gen. Shaheem also criticized the cross-border shelling by Pakistani military in eastern provinces and said the Afghan leadership is hopeful that the provocative acts are…
WASHINGTON: Talk about biting the hand that feeds. Even as it bilked billions of dollars in aid from the United States, Pakistan is now revealed to have funded the 2009 attack on a CIA camp on its border with Afghanistan that killed seven American agents and contractors and three others. The explosive disclosure comes in a declassified 2010 cable published by the national security archive, that, despite being redacted in parts, asserts unequivocally that “some…