Military analysts say Beijing’s long-range UAVs could play crucial role in surveillance, blockades, strikes and assassinations.

During the 20th party congress in Beijing this week, all eyes will be on who CMC chairman Xi Jinping chooses to join the top brass.

Three important meetings between the People’s Liberation Army and the US military were cancelled as part of Beijing’s retaliation measures.

After knocking them over with his car, Colonel Priyanto and two of his subordinates tossed their bodies into the river – but one of the victims was still alive.

Ridge Alkonis’ car veered into cars and pedestrians striking an elderly woman and her son-in-law, both of whom died. His parents say it was a terrible accident but prosecutors claim deadly negligence.

Iran’s defence ministry said the incident occurred at a research centre in the Parchin military complex, scene of a giant unexplained blast in 2020, and where Iran is suspected of conducting tests on nuclear weapons’ triggers.

Japan is holding back from reacting to Moscow’s ‘sabre-rattling’ around the disputed Northern Territories, as Tokyo grapples with protecting its energy security while pressuring Russia to end its Ukraine invasion.

Thermobaric weapons suck up oxygen, then create a blast wave that ‘obliterates’ victims and is especially destructive in enclosed spaces.

With one of the largest and strongest armies in the world, Russian power dwarfs neighbouring Ukraine on every measure.

Artemiy Ryabchuk, aged 20, was on guard duty at a military factory in the city of Dnipro when he opened fire on his colleagues killing five people and wounding five more.

Security experts have warned that the escalating competition between China, the US and others could end in military conflict.

American lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Thursday offering support for the island’s authorities, who Beijing accuses of seeking independence.

The Aukus alliance, a three-party security pact between Australia, the UK and the US, will equip Australian forces with the know-how to build nuclear-powered submarines.

The People’s Liberation Army has been reshaped since major reforms began in 2015 to modernise the world’s largest military.

Several countries accuse ‘cyber actors’ backed by Beijing of hacking the Microsoft Exchange email server, as allegations of Chinese cyberattacks mount.

China has the weight of numbers on its side, but America has various technological and financial advantages.

China’s inventory consists of weapons from several countries, primarily Russia.

The party and the PLA are entwined and in the early years of its rule, all Communist Party leaders had military experience.

Beijing and New Delhi may have agreed to ease tensions but with political relations still sour and troops remaining eyeball-to-eyeball at the border, are the nuclear-armed neighbours really on the road to resolution?

Democratic lawmakers have questioned the legality of killing top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and warned Donald Trump does not have authority to march the United States into a war.

Of North Korea’s six atomic tests, Kim was responsible for four. Experts estimate North Korea has assembled 20-30 nuclear warheads.

Earlier this year, Kurdish-led forces, with backing from a coalition made up of the US and dozens of other countries, took Isis’s last territory in Syria and eliminated its caliphate.

The rebels have never politically controlled any province or even a single city. However, from bases in the forests and mountains across the country, guerillas have waged Asia’s longest-running insurgency.

Joint patrol carried out by China and Russia may have been designed to send a message that their collaboration is ‘a force to be reckoned with militarily in East Asia’.

Political analysts say the next US defence secretary is likely to echo Trump’s convention-busting ‘America first’ foreign policy