The 30th Mobile Brigade Combat Team's (MBCT) 230th Brigade Support Battalion (BSB), Augmentation Company, marked its mobilization to support U.S. Central Command with a deployment ceremony Friday, Aug. 7. This will be the North Carolina National Guard's eighth unit mobilized since October 2025 to support one of the Department of War's federal missions, with four more preparing to deploy before the end of the year.
A drone invaded Bulgaria's airspace across the border with Romania and exploded 100 meters after it reached the Bulgarian territory and some 1000 meters away from the Bulgarian compressor station of the Trans-Balkan Gas Pipeline.
Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "War criminal state Japan's possession of the capability for preemptive attack is a grave threat destroying global peace and security" on August 5:
China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit Tuesday from a commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan.
China succeeded in another orbital launch from sea on Wednesday, with Smart Dragon-3, developed by China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT,) delivering Satellite 01 and 02 of the Dongfang Huiyan spatiotemporal intelligent constellation hyperspectral remote sensing satellite system into their designated orbits.
As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues, Washington is debating how to sustain pressure on the Kremlin while confronting growing cooperation between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
The Philippine Navy (PN) on Wednesday announced that one of the country's most modern warships, the guided-missile frigate BRP Miguel Malvar, demonstrated its excellence in gunnery by winning third place in the Rim of the Pacific's (RIMPAC) Naval Surface Fire Support (NSFS) Rodeo multinational live-fire event.
Warning that Gaza remains unsafe for civilians, UN humanitarians said Tuesday that their partners report Israeli attacks on schools for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Next-generation Defence technology was put to the test by JTF629 soldiers deployed on Exercise Austral Shield 2026 in Weipa, Far North Queensland.
Le film, qui mêle accents poétiques et réalités documentaires, voit la propriétaire d’un champ de coton et sa petite-fille confrontées à l’arrivée d’un homme d’affaires puissant.
Iran and Oman are close to reaching an agreement to restore commercial maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu Agency reported citing The New York Times.
Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian said in a video published by several Iranian news agencies that he has no intention of resigning, dismissing weeks of speculation about his political future.
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the vulnerability of global trade to a single maritime chokepoint, with early data showing sharp falls in exports of energy, fertilizers and industrial products.
Ukrainian drones struck two more warehouses used by the online retailer Wildberries, as well as a third in the Moscow region that killed five people as Russia and Ukraine continued exchanging cross-border strikes with US-mediated peace talks stalled.
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