An Indonesian minister has threatened to release a “human tsunami” of 10,000 asylum seekers to Australia amid tensions with PM Tony Abbott’s government over Canberra’s objections to the impending execution of two Aussie drug smugglers. “If Canberra keeps doing things that displease Indonesia, Jakarta will surely let the illegal immigrants go to Australia,” Indonesia’s coordinating minister... 

US Major General John R. O’Connor talks to the media on Monday while the US Army unloads equipment at Port of Riga, the capital of Latvia. The United States has delivered over 100 pieces of heavy military equipment to the Baltic states in northern Europe to provide them with the ability to “deter” the perceived threat from Russia. The US army provided the heavy armor on Monday for the three... 

Islamic state extremists have ‘bulldozed’ an ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq near Mosul with heavy military vehicles, the country’s authorities said. This is the latest in the series of ISIS attacks against Iraqi heritage. “They [Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS)] assaulted … Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy machinery, appropriating the archaeological attractions dating... 

US President Barack Obama threatened to take military action against Israel not to let Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strike Iran. Netanyahu was planning airstrikes at an emergency meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Benny Gantz, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarîda said. The meeting was held after... 

When it comes to an EMP attack, the question remains “when” not “if” the SHTF. Few other scenarios hold as much potential for disaster and disruption to the lives of everyone in society. At a moment’s notice, 300 million Americans could be made instantly desperate – and even likely to die in the aftermath. A single event could easily be enough to take down the power grid and render inoperable... 

North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong North Korea’s Foreign Minister said at a United Nations conference that his communist country would use a pre-emptive strike if necessary to stop “an ever-increasing nuclear threat” from the United States. The remarks by Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong were made during a speech at the UN Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday. He said the joint military... 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying China has slammed the Unites States after Washington criticized a Chinese anti-terror law that would force tech firms to surrender key information to Communist authorities. The law, which was made public for consultation last November, would require all telecommunications and Internet service providers to help the Beijing government in preventing the... 

Russian fighter jets are practicing attacking NATO ships in the Black Sea in another dramatic sign that tensions over Ukraine continue to build despite a fragile ceasefire agreed last month. “Russia’s newest Su-30 fighter jets and Su-24 attack bombers are using two NATO ships in the Black Sea to practice penetrating anti-air systems,” reports Sputnik, citing a source at the Sevastopol naval... 

A Topol-M missile launcher rolls down Red Square in Moscow. Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces are ready to react to any nuclear strike even if it is lightning fast, SMF Central Command chief said. A retaliatory strike would take place in all circumstances, “without hesitation,” he added. “If there’s a challenge to repel a lightning-fast nuclear in any given conditions – it will be done... 

Russia has no intention of canceling its embargo on food products from countries that imposed sanctions on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich says. “We are not planning to cancel the food embargo so far,” said Dvorkovich at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum on Saturday. The deputy premier added that Russian authorities are instead discussing the reduction of... 

North Korean leader has called on his country’s army to strengthen its preparedness for a possible military confrontation with the US and its allies amid what is called security threats ahead of the annual joint US-South Korea war games described by Pyongyang as provocative. Kim Jong-un made the remarks while opening a new hall at the country’s Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in... 

Iranian navy blowing up a ‘mock’ US aircraft carrier. Iran has staged naval war games in an important sea channel, including an attack on a mock US warship. Missiles were also fired from the coast around the Strait of Hormuz, which sees a quarter of all sea-transported oil pass through it. The drills were conducted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which were named Prophet 9. The exercises... 

An extraordinary report prepared by the Military Scientific Committee of the Armed Forces (MSC) on the just completed trials of the Almaz-Antey high energy laser directed energy weapon system project by the 27th Central Research Institute (27-CRI) states that their “immediate dispersement” to Federation allies India, China and Brazil is needed to defend our planet against “inter-dimensional... 

New Zealand is set to dispatch non-combat forces to Iraq to train Iraqi military units to better fight the Takfiri ISIL terrorists operating in the war-torn country, New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key says. Some 140 troops will initiate a “behind the wire” mission in May to train Iraqi security forces, Key told parliament on Tuesday, stressing that the soldiers will not be involved in combat... 

The ISIL terrorist group has kidnapped at least 90 Christians in northeast Syria. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that the abductions were carried out in Assyrian Christian villages near the town of Tel Tamer in the province of Hasakah. It said the Takfiri militants attacked the villages after dawn. Tel Tamer, home to the ancient Christian minority, is located in...