Tehran, Iran – Iran has promoted several commanders to the top of its military leadership after Israel killed their predecessors in a series of air attacks. The leadership of Iran’s General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) has shifted significantly as the country defends against Israeli attacks and launches retaliatory strikes. How senior were the …

KARACHI: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, on Thursday called water his country’s “red line” and ruled out any deal on Kashmir during an address to university academics at the military’s inaugural Hilal Talks forum. The forum is designed to engage Pakistan’s academic community on national and regional issues, where the army chief spoke just days after a military …

ISLAMABAD: In a first, the Pakistan army’s media wing has launched the Hilal Talks 2025 program to raise awareness among Pakistani teachers about the “tactics and nefarious agendas of anti-state elements” on social media, Radio Pakistan reported on Thursday. While India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire after coming close to an all-out conflict earlier this month, social media citizens on …

ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani soldiers and seven “Indian-sponsored” militants were killed in separate encounters in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the Pakistani military said late Thursday. Islamabad has accused India of orchestrating several militant attacks in Pakistan, amid heightened tensions between the two neighbors since traded fire earlier this month in worst fighting between them in decades. New Delhi denies …

It is important to end the aggression and fighting that is spreading around the world. To that end, the G7 members must first unite. A G7 summit is scheduled to be held in Kananaskis, western Canada, from Sunday to Tuesday. This year, the group will mark 50 years since its first summit, at which the leaders of six countries — …