The European Union announced Tuesday the launch of a new naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enforcing the U.N. arms embargo on Libya, after Italy blocked a previous operation claiming that the warships attracted migrants to Europe’s shores.
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As Russia’s share of the pie shrank, the United States increased arms exports by 23% in the last five years, helping to make Saudi Arabia the world’s largest arms importer, a Swedish peace group reported Monday.
Read moreNorth Korea fired two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea on Monday, South Korean officials said, resuming weapons demonstrations after a months-long hiatus that may have been forced by the coronavirus crisis in Asia.
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A counter-terrorism analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency pleaded guilty on Thursday to leaking secret information to journalists, including details about foreign countries’ weapons systems.
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A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational Friday, Russia’s defense minister reported to President Vladimir Putin, bolstering the country’s nuclear strike capability.
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President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.
Read moreThe Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons agreed Wednesday to ban the nerve agent Novichok, which was used in the attempted assassination last year of a former Russian double agent.
Read moreJulia Ann Poff, 48, of Brookshire, Texas was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for sending a mail bomb to former President Barack Obama and other officials, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston said.
Read moreThe Justice Department announced indictments of three men who illegally smuggled rifle parts from the United States to Saudi Arabia and tried to pass the items off as shower curtain rods or car parts.
Read moreThree Saudi Arabians — Hatim Humeed Alsufyani, 36, Mosab Alzahrani, 27, and Abdulwahab Mohammed A. Alabdulwahab, 30 — face criminal charges of buying more than $100,000 in weapons parts in the United States while on student visas and smuggling them to Saudi Arabia, federal prosecutors said in Los Angeles.
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Across political party lines, most voters are growing increasingly alarmed at the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons technology, according to a poll released Monday.
Read moreEmbattled Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria on Thursday accused Turkey of using banned weapons such as napalm and white phosphorus, a charge Ankara denied.
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A Defense Intelligence Agency analyst was charged Wednesday with providing journalists top secret and classified national defense information, including secrets related to an unnamed foreign country’s weapons systems.
Read moreA New York man and a weapons company sued Nassau County (Long Island) in federal court, claiming its ban on civilian purchases of Tasers and “electric arms” is unconstitutional.
Read moreAlleging aid to the Iranian missile program and other military efforts, the Treasury Department slapped new sanctions Wednesday on two business networks with ties to Tehran.
Read moreThe Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change.
Read moreA black-market arms dealer who sold guns, anti-tank rockets, anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons to governments and militant groups around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
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The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ruled against Nevada in a battle with the federal government over its secret shipment of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas, but the state’s attorney general says the fight isn’t over yet.
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A poll found Wednesday that a majority of Republicans support legislation banning assault weapons in the United States, a sentiment that contradicts President Donald Trump’s statements that there is no “political appetite” for such a ban.
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North Korea said Thursday that Kim Jong-un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
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