PENTAGON
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirms US has paused bomb shipment to Israel over Rafah invasion concerns Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has confirmed the U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns the country was approaching a decision to launch a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S...
09 May, 2024, 07.32 AM ISTGaza: Construction of pier off coast to begin ‘very soon’ to boost aid deliveries, says Pentagon The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the United States will begin construction “very soon” on a pier to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza.“All the necessary vessels are within the Mediterranean region and standing by,” Pentagon spokesm...
24 Apr, 2024, 12.35 PM ISTIran-Israel Tensions: US Military assets will remain in Middle East, says Pentagon Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder has said that the additional United States military assets that were moved into the Middle East before Iran’s attack on Israel will remain in place.Iran-Israel Tensions: US Military assets will remain in Mid...
16 Apr, 2024, 01.46 PM IST
UFO sightings likely secret military tests, no evidence of alien technology: Pentagon The United States has said that it found no evidence of UFOs or aliens and that most sitings were 'ordinary objects' that were the results of "misidentification". In the 63-page report titled "Historical Record of US Government Involvement with Unid...
12 Mar, 2024, 01.21 PM ISTUS Navy intercepts missiles from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels targeting Israel: Pentagon On Thursday, the Pentagon said a US Navy ship in the Red Sea shot down missiles and drones fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, possibly at Israel. Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said that a "land-attack cruise missiles and s...
20 Oct, 2023, 12.38 PM ISTIsrael-Hamas war: Pentagon chief says Israel killed 25,000 Palestinian women and children US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says Israel has killed more than 25,000 Palestinian women and children since October. When asked during a hearing for the figure on women and children killed, Austin responded 'It's over 25,000'. Watch!Israel-Hamas ...
01 Mar, 2024, 06.01 PM ISTAt a fraction of the Pentagon budget, Ukraine has substantially degraded Russian Army: Stoltenberg At a press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg offered condolences for the US troops killed and wounded in the drone attack in Jordan. Stoltenberg said, 'Tehran's behaviour reminds us of what...
30 Jan, 2024, 12.55 PM ISTU.S. claims their warship, multiple commercial ships attacked in Red Sea amid war in Gaza In a development that could deepen maritime tension in the Middle East amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, a US warship and multiple commercial vessels were attacked in the Red Sea on Sunday, reported the New York Post citing a Pentagon statement. Th...
04 Dec, 2023, 02.35 PM IST'Canadian PM made a huge mistake': Former Pentagon official on Trudeau's allegations against India "Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has made a huge mistake. He has made allegations in a manner which he has not been able to back. There are two possibilities here, either he was shooting from the hip, and he does not have the evidence to support the accu...
23 Sep, 2023, 10.40 AM ISTChinese jet comes within 10 feet of US B-52 bomber over South China Sea; Pentagon releases video US military sources have reported a dangerously close encounter between a Chinese jet and a US bomber over the South China Sea, earlier this week. The US has attributed this incident as the latest among several other instances of China's aggressive ...
27 Oct, 2023, 02.54 PM ISTChina warns US not to interfere in its relationship with India: Pentagon China has warned American officials not to interfere in its relationship with India, the Pentagon has said in a report to the Congress. Throughout its standoff with India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Chinese officials sought to downplay t...
30 Nov, 2022, 10.09 AM ISTUS response to India-China border clash: 'Closely watching developments along LAC' The Pentagon has said that the US Department of Defense continues to closely watch developments along the line of actual control (LAC) at the India-China border in Tawang and called the Chinese incursion a growing trend by Beijing to assert itself a...
14 Dec, 2022, 12.44 PM ISTBudget readies US for possible China confrontation: Pentagon The US military must be ready for possible confrontation with China, the Pentagon's leaders said Thursday, pushing Congress to approve the Defense Department's proposed USD 842 billion budget that would modernize the force in Asia and around the wor...
24 Mar, 2023, 07.27 AM ISTPentagon leak case: FBI arrested 21-year-old national guardsman A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who has emerged as a main person of interest in the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war was taken into custody Thursday by federal agents, Attorney General Merrick Garland a...
14 Apr, 2023, 11.07 AM ISTUS: Department of Defense assessing impact of military documents leak It's been less than a week since news of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war surfaced, sending the Pentagon into full-speed damage control to assure allies and assess the scope of the leak. The information on scores of slides has...
13 Apr, 2023, 07.40 AM ISTUS says document leak poses 'serious' security risk The online leaks of scores of highly classified documents about the Ukraine war present a "very serious" risk to national security, and senior leaders are quickly taking steps to mitigate the damage, a top Pentagon spokesman said Monday. And as the ...
11 Apr, 2023, 08.48 AM ISTWatch: Forensic expert analyzes Russian jet interception The Pentagon on Thursday released video of what it said was a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a US Air Force surveillance drone before the warplane clipped the drone’s propeller in international airspace, leading to its crash in the Black Sea an...
17 Mar, 2023, 02.44 PM ISTBlack Sea drone incident: Pentagon releases video of Russian fighter jet forcing down US reaper In a rare move, the Pentagon on Thursday released a de-classified video showing Russia's intercept of a U.S. military surveillance drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago. It was the first direct U.S.-Russian incident since the Ukraine war bega...
16 Mar, 2023, 05.51 PM ISTUS: Pentagon alleges China of conducting surveillance via spy balloons for years There have been four previous instances of Chinese surveillance balloons flying over US territories, the Pentagon said here Wednesday as the military continued with its operation to recover the balloon and its payload shot down by fighter jets.US: P...
09 Feb, 2023, 09.53 AM ISTPentagon decides not to shoot down Chinese balloon as could endanger people on ground The US officials said that it is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States. Pentagon decided not to shoot down the balloon as could endanger too many people on the ground.Pentagon decides not ...
04 Feb, 2023, 09.12 PM IST