*MUNICH, GERMANY: *Global spending on defence rose by four per cent in 2019, the largest growth in 10 years, led by big increases in the US and China, a study said on Friday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said the rise was fuelled by growing rivalries between big ...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has hailed "tremendous" progress on defence spending commitments by NATO members. After emergency talks with NATO leaders in Brussels, he said allies had sharply increased defense spending commitments after he provoked a crisis session with a tirade at European ...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has demanded of NATO allies to immediately step up defence spending. Addressing the NATO summit in Brussels , he said the United States is protecting Germany, France and other allies for decades, which is inappropriate and we cannot accept it. President Trump ...

NEW DELHI - The Indian war hysteria has reched it's peak under the Right wing hindu extremist government of Narendra Modi who is bent upon destabilising the region and has started the arms race in Asia declaring Pakistan and China as it's arch enemies. India has overtaken the United Kingdom in ...

France  has approved an increase of nearly two billion euros in its defence spending for next year, reversing the cuts in the current year defence budget.The approval was given by the French National Assembly in Paris, raising the total defence budget of the country to 32.4 billion euros.A large ...

Defense spending by European NATO states inched up in 2016 compared to the previous year, data by the military alliance showed on Monday, but still remained below the threshold the new U.S. President Donald Trump said was crucial to achieve.Trump made NATO states in Europe nervous when he ...

BEIJING: (APP) China will raise defence spending by "around seven percent" this year, a top official said Saturday, just days after US President Donald Trump outlined plans to raise American military expenditures by 10 percent. China has been steadily building up and modernising its ...

BEIJING: The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China's upcoming defense budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power around the globe.China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with ...

ABU DHABI – Gulf Arab states are poised to continue to spend billions of dollars on defence despite low oil prices causing severe budget deficits forcing Gulf States to introduce austerity measures and cut spending.Saudi Arabia’s total defence budget is forecast at $82 billion (66 billion ...

The United States on Saturday redoubled its longstanding demand that Germany and other European countries spend more on defense, saying their failure to meet NATO's 2 percent military spending target was eroding the foundation of the Atlantic alliance."When even one ally fails to do their part, it ...