In early 2020, members of a Taliban-linked criminal network in Afghanistan detained in raids told interrogators that they had heard that Russians were offering money to reward killings of American and coalition troops. The claim, that Russia was trying to pay to generate more frequent attacks on Western forces, was stunning, particularly because the United … Read more
Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation’s capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior US intelligence officials said. They said communications intercepted by the National Security Agency in January showed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard discussed mounting “USS Cole-style attacks” against the base, referring to the … Read more
New Delhi: India and China on Thursday utilised BRICS NSA platform to maintain a channel of communication even as Delhi awaits Beijing’s message for an early meeting of the Army corps commander. NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi were part of BRICS NSA meet organised under Russian BRICS Presidency. Russian NSA Nikolai … Read more
New Delhi: The foreign ministers and national security advisers of the Quadrilateral, a strategic forum between India, the US, Japan and Australia, are preparing to meet in September and October, as China’s foreign policy unnerves countries in the Indo-Pacific region. Plans are afoot to organise back-to-back and in-person meetings ahead of the US Presidential polls … Read more
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force – and this time there’s no daylight between them. Trump last week announced that Dr Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor – now living in Russia – whose spectacular leaks shook the U.S. intelligence community in 2013. The Republican president’s comments followed an interview Trump gave to the New York Post this week in … Read more
One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board. According to India’s Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to … Read more
India, which has earned the trust of many nations around the world, including that of the United States, can attract global supply chains away from China and reduce its reliance on Chinese companies, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. In his virtual keynote address to the annual ‘India Ideas Summit‘ of the US … Read more