Tag: USA

Russia, US maintain substantive dialogue on strategic stability – Moscow’s deputy UN envoy (TASS)

Moscow and Washington maintain a substantive and meaningful dialogue on strategic stability, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva Andrei...

Russia’s draft resolution on OPCW not approved over US pressure, Foreign Ministry says (TASS)

The US has put pressure on the representatives of a number of countries at the UN in order to prevent the review of Russia’s...

Russia looks forward to continuing cybersecurity cooperation with US, diplomat says (TASS)

Moscow is hopeful that successful cybersecurity cooperation with the United States will continue, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva...

US troops abroad leave chaos in their wake, Russian Embassy in Washington says (TASS)

US servicemen roam "recklessly around the world" leaving behind chaos, the Russian Embassy in Washington posted on Twitter on Friday. "We are perplexed by concern...

US attempt to steal Iran oil should be prosecuted internationally: MP (IRNA)

An Iranian legislator has called on diplomatic apparatus of the Islamic Republic to pursue legal action against the attempt for stealing Iranian oil shipment...

Joint Chiefs’ Information Officer: US is Behind On Information Warfare. AI Can Help (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

The United States needs a better strategy and more advanced tools for information operations, Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, the Joint Staff’s chief information officer, said...

Lockheed wins $10.9B contract to modernize F-22 (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The Air Force on Friday awarded Lockheed Martin a $10.9 billion contract to modernize its F-22 Raptor fighter jet. The massive indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity deal for...

Send Ukraine US troops, weapons, key Republicans tell Biden (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Republican Reps. Mike Rogers and Mike Turner are urging U.S. President Joe Biden to further arm Ukraine and “deploy a U.S. military presence in the Black...

DARPA nabs Gremlin drone in midair for first time (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

For the first time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recovered an unmanned X-61 Gremlin air vehicle to a C-130 in flight, marking a...

The Army wants to change how it sustains critical technology and communications gear (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

The Army is changing how it sustains technological equipment to improve the maintenance process, according to the service’s top official in charge of those...

Germany, US plan major aerial drill to defend Europe (Vivienne Machi, Defense News)

Two Eurofighter aircraft belonging to the German Air Force sped down the runway on a perfectly autumnal October morning at Neuburg Air Base, about...

Top U.S. Diplomat Heads To Bosnia Amid Threats Of Serbs’ Secession (RFE RL)

The U.S. administration is sending a top diplomat to Sarajevo amid growing concerns that the Serbian-majority entity that makes up part of Bosnia-Herzegovina could...

Facebook’s Foreign Disasters (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

“The ugly American,” the title of a novel published in 1958 by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, entered the language to refer to boorish American officials...

US approves sale of air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia (Jared Szuba, Al Monitor)

The Biden administration on Thursday approved a $650 million sale of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles for Saudi Arabia, citing US support for the Gulf kingdom’s self-defense. The...

US court convicts Chinese intelligence agent of spying (Al Jazeera)

A Chinese intelligence officer has been convicted in US federal court of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from US...

Official Myanmar records mistaken about detained US reporter (Al Jazeera)

Testimony by prosecution witnesses on Friday in the case of Danny Fenster, a US journalist who has been detained in Myanmar for more than...