Iran’s supreme leader issued a veiled threat in the same speech in which he stated that “no one is seeking war,” saying it wouldn’t be difficult for the Islamic Republic to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels amid rising tensions with the United States, state media reported Wednesday.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Friday announced the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, a compact that requires countries to put in place regulations on the international sale of certain types of weapons.
Read moreTwo months out from Guatemala’s presidential elections, one of the candidates was arrested Wednesday in Miami on charges of conspiring with the Sinaloa drug cartel to import tons of cocaine into the U.S. and assassinate political rivals in a bid to secure millions of dollars to finance his election.
Read moreRussian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Turkish counterpart in Moscow on Monday, discussing how to coordinate their next moves in Syria and how to deepen business ties, including the sale of advanced Russian missiles to Turkey that has riled the United States.
Read moreIt’s a sign of how violent Alabama prisons for men have become: Makeshift knives and other homemade weapons are everywhere. Inmates scrounge metal from dish racks, light fixtures and yard fences and fashion them into long knives. Many keep more than one.
Read moreIt didn’t pass the flick test. Siding with a sous chef who was convicted for possessing an illegal gravity knife, a federal judge struck down New York’s ban against the so-called “successor of the switchblade” on Wednesday as unconstitutionally vague.
Read moreIn a unanimous decision, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state ban on carrying stun guns in public or in a vehicle violates the Second Amendment.
Read moreNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Wednesday that the military alliance is studying a range of options to deal with what it insists are Russian violations of a key missile treaty but that it wants to avoid sparking any arms race.
Read moreFive people were arrested Tuesday in France in connection to the Dec. 11, 2018, attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, an unnamed judicial official said.
Read moreRecapping the first meeting of the year by the NATO-Russia council, the secretary-general of military alliance said Friday that Russia’s unsanctioned missile development threatens the future of a Cold War-era treaty.
Read moreU.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who allegedly tried to breach the border fence in Tijuana.
Read morePresident Vladimir Putin says Russia’s new weapons have no foreign equivalents and will help ensure the country’s security for decades to come.
Read moreFederal prosecutors charged an Ohio man with planning a mass shooting in a Jewish synagogue in Toledo, and also said Monday that a woman faces charges for buying explosives for another suspected terror plot at a local bar and farm.
Read moreA Swedish think tank said Monday that Russia has emerged as the world’s second-largest arms producer after the United States. Russia surpassed Britain, which had held that spot since 2002 and remains Western Europe’s No. 1 arms maker.
Read moreA police clerk claims in court that the city of Warwick, Rhode Island, fired him for truthfully reporting that police officers stole drugs and weapons from crime scenes.
Read moreThe Trump administration accused Iran on Thursday of stepping up violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports by sending rockets and other weaponry to rebels in Afghanistan and Yemen.
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Europe, a continent defined by catastrophic wars and the clash of empires, is talking about a future where it is a military might again, and on a war footing. Its top leaders are advocating something long viewed as highly unrealistic: A pan-European army relying on European-made and -owned weapons and machinery instead of American ones. A Europe even defended by its own nuclear weapons.
Read moreNorth Korea on Friday said it will deport an American citizen it detained for illegal entrance, an apparent concession to the United States that came even as it announced the test of a newly developed but unspecified “ultramodern” weapon that will be seen as a pressuring tactic by Washington.
Read moreShuttled from his home state of Florida to New York, where at least half a dozen public figures were mailed pipe bombs in recent weeks, accused #MAGAbomber Cesar Sayoc pleaded not guilty Thursday to a 30-count indictment.
Read moreRussian President Vladimir Putin says arms control issues will likely top the agenda of his planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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