The US is looking on with interest at a tug of war over AQ Khan, the man behind Pakistan’s nuclear programme
A struggle is under way in Pakistan over the fate of AQ Khan, the godfather of the country’s atom programme, who is under house arrest for selling nuclear secrets and hardware to North Korea, Libya [...]

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A new Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber will enter service with Russia’ Air Force by the end of this month, the Air Force chief said on Tuesday.
“We hope that the 121st heavy bomber regiment [based at Engels airbase in the Saratov Region] will receive a new Tu-160 plane on April 29,” Col.Gen. Alexander Zelin said.
“It is [...]

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Leading Muslim scholars are laying the theological foundations for a “Euro-Islam” which would reconcile their religion with the challenges of modernity. But just how compatible is Islam with secular Western values? By Dieter Bednarz and Daniel Steinvorth more…

Photo Gallery: Visions of a New Islam
Muslims in Germany: Life in a Parallel Society
Graphics Gallery: Germany’s Muslims by [...]

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Indeed, alongside the tourism campaign proclaiming “Incredible India,” there’s also a sense of Vulnerable India. A quick 360-degree tour of India’s neighborhood reveals how this Asian giant - with its roaring economy and rising global profile - faces a tyranny of geography.
To the west lies historic nemesis Pakistan and, beyond that, Afghanistan - two Muslim [...]

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Russia has officially notified China of the fact that the production of J11 jet fighters, which copy Russia’s Su-27SK aircraft, violates international agreements. Moscow promised to launch legal proceedings to protect its intellectual property.
Russia’s attempts to settle down on China’s arms market have been made to no avail, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports. Chinese pirates have [...]

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Muslim anti-Semitism is growing in scope and extremism, to the point that it has become a credible strategic threat for Israel, according to a 180-page report produced for Israeli policymakers by the semi-official Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) and obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post ahead of its Tuesday release.
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Pakistan’s military on Monday carried out a training launch of a long-range nuclear-capable missile which can hit targets deep in rival India, the second such test in three days, the military said. The Shaheen II, or Hatf VI, missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,280 miles) was launched from an undisclosed location by the [...]

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High oil prices are here to stay, but they cannot be blamed for the current global food crisis, an international forum heard on Monday.
Biofuels, once seen as a key factor in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, lie behind the stunning rise in food prices worldwide, participants at the International Energy Forum suggested.
“A conflict (is) emerging between [...]

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Nothing alarms more than China’s military build-up. Beijing has the world’s third-largest defense budget; it’s been rising at 10 percent or more a year for over a decade, making it the world’s fastest-growing peacetime defense budget. It’ll grow 18 percent this year.
China is using the cash to professionalize its once-antiquated army and to grow [...]

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Standard Missile-3 missiles deployed on U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers and equipped with the Aegis information and control system are the second echelon of ballistic missile defense.
Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors are the first echelon. The third echelon, detection satellites, supports the operations of the first two. Moreover, in the next 10-20 years, the United States [...]

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Georgia has asked the U.N. Security Council to discuss Russia’s “military aggression” after saying a Russian jet shot down one of its unmanned spy planes.
To bolster its case, the Georgian air force released a video that it says shows a twin-tailed Russian MiG-29 shooting down a Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, over the separatist [...]

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The CIA almost blew its chance to recruit the specialist engineer Adolf Tolkachev in the late 1970s, but once he had been “landed”, Guilsher’s professionalism and bravery helped build a bond that yielded military secrets of incalculable importance.
Tolkachev, a senior engineer for Phazotron, provided key details of the research and development of the all-important radar [...]

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Anthony Cordesman, a strategist at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, has estimated the consequences if Tehran gets the bomb and a nuclear exchange with Israel ensues. He expects, writes Martin Walker of United Press International,
some 16 million to 28 million Iranians dead within 21 days, and between 200,000 and 800,000 Israelis dead [...]

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