Written by Jonathan Marcus, BBC

​The shooting down of a Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish fighters has prompted Moscow to reinforce its contingent in Syria... ...

Written by Ramanand Garge, Vivekananda International Foundation

​The strategically significant Joint India-US Naval exercise MALABAR-2015, hosted by India between October 14 and 21, 2015, conducted in the Bay of Bengal, in many ways, illustrates the growing multi-faceted military cooperation between India and the US and underpins their collective effort to define the strategic contours of the Indo-Pacific security... ...

Written by PTI

​WASHINGTON: India has indicated to the US that it may reconsider its stand on three contentious defence foundational agreements if its apprehensions about some of the issues in the pacts are addressed by the Pentagon... ...

Written by Defence News

​Swedish defence major Saab has offered to manufacture its fifth generation Gripen fighter aircraft here with technology transfer to India, in a renewed bid for a pie in the multi-billion dollar worth IAF modernisation plan... ...

Written by Dan Lamothe, Washington Post

​A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet takes off from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on July 28, 2015. the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram was involved in a massive operation against al-Qaeda training camps this month. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph Swafford/ Air Force)... ...

Written by Jessica Rivinius, Michael Parker, Mary Hunt, START

​To enable a better understanding of how terrorist organizations network and function over time, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) has launched the Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) online platform. The innovative new tool features updated, vetted and sourced narratives, and relationship information and social network data on 50 of the most notorious terrorist organizations in the world since 1998, with additional network information on more than 100 organizations... ...

Written by Dr Eowyn, Before It's News

Nick Gutteridge reports for the UK Express, that Russian intelligence claims that huge numbers of Islamist fighters - ISIS and Taliban - are massing on Afghanistan’s northern border, ready for an invasion of central Asia... ...

Written by BDJ Desk

​So Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead, and apparently no one noticed for two whole years. His death is a good thing, insofar as it saves American taxpayers the $10 million bounty the United States was offering for his capture. Still, if I were to drop dead, I’d like to think that someone might notice a bit more promptly, if only because my kids might wonder why no one was cooking dinner anymore. But perhaps that explains the delay: Mullah Omar hadn’t been making dinner for anyone in the U.S. intelligence community. Nonetheless, Mullah Omar’s belatedly recognized demise suggests several lessons for the United States... ...

Written by ​Balaji Chandramohan, Australian Institute of International Affairs

As the three navies of India, the United States and Japan were involved in the annual tri-lateral naval exercise codenamed Malabar in the Bay of Bengal, it signalled a strategic and operational shift in how the three countries view their maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region... ...

Written by Dilip Hero, The World Post

​After nineteen days of marathon negotiations and four missed LONDON -- In most countries, governments change and policy follows. In China, where the Communist Party is determined to stay in power for perpetuity, the government can lay down policies and carry them out over the long haul. The long-term policy can be upgraded as the economy and technology permit... ...