MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed regional conflicts and a crisis in ties with the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency who paid a rare trip to Moscow last week, the Kremlin said on Monday. CIA chief William Burns was in Russia for two days of meetings with top officials at ...

WASHINGTON: China is expanding its nuclear arsenal much more quickly than anticipated, the United States has said, but Beijing on Thursday slammed the Pentagon report as overhyping the threat. The United States has declared China its principal security concern for the future, as Beijing works to ...

The US link has no plans to ask permission link the Taliban link if it decides to bomb Afghanistan in the future, the Pentagon said. Since the withdrawal, the US link has maintained that it has “over the horizon capabilities” to carry out airstrikes link in Afghanistan. But even though ...

Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa reiterated on Friday that Islamabad had no favourites in Afghanistan. He was talking to US chargé d'affaires Angela Ageler at the General Headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi a day after bomb explosions rocked the Kabul ...

The Pentagon said Friday it was cutting the number of troops and air defense units deployed to the Middle East link, confirming a Wall Street Journal report that eight Patriot batteries link were being moved out from the region. The move comes as President Joe Biden's administration seeks to ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has shot down a request from an American intelligence agency for cross-border counterterrorism missions. During an interview with HBO Axios’s Jonathan Swan that due to air on Sunday, the premier reiterated the country’s stance on the use of ...

President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to give complete security control of Kabul Airport to Turkey after the US completes withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters on Thursday Biden and Erdogan met at the ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Tuesday completed “greater than 50%” of its task of withdrawing troops and equipment from Afghanistan as the US is going to end its longest war this year. The US military has removed “the equivalent of approximately 500 C-17 loads of material out of ...

WASHINGTON — The rapid U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan link is creating intense pressure on the C.I.A. to find new ways to gather intelligence and carry out counterterrorism strikes in the country, but the agency has few good options. The C.I.A., which has been at the heart of the ...

A leading newspaper has claimed that Pakistan has allowed the US warplanes to use its airspace in support of their forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. “In a second major move in recent months to fix ties with the United States, Pakistan has granted permission for American warplanes to ...