Maoists: Banking on Explosives On June 14, an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Satwan Singh (34), of the Jharkhand-based 134 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalion was killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast along the Odisha-Jharkhand border during a joint combing operation against the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in the Banko Forest under K. Balang Police Station limits of […]

A dramatic shortfall in international funding has left nearly 23 million Afghans — nearly half the country’s population — in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, said on Wednesday, warning that hard-won humanitarian progress is now at risk of unraveling. According to OCHA, an estimated 22.9 million people — including 5.7 […]

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a raid on what it described as an ISIS hideout in Kabul, saying two members of the militant group were killed during the operation. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid announced on Tuesday that the raid took place on Monday night in the 15th security district of the Afghan capital. He said Taliban forces discovered and […]

North Waziristan: Womb of Terror On June 3, 2025, at least 14 terrorists were killed in an operation by Security Forces (SFs) in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said that an intelligence-based operation was conducted by SFs in the general Datta Khel area, on the reported presence […]

Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, in his Eid al-Adha sermon, delivered Saturday in Kandahar, from which only an audio recording was released, warned that disunity, disobedience and internal power struggles could bring down the Taliban’s rule. According to the 45-minute audio posted by the Taliban’s chief spokesman, Akhundzada cautioned that the Taliban rule would face collapse if its members failed […]

The Pakistan Navy (PN) has long sought to project an image of maritime relevance, but a sober assessment of its operational reach, logistical infrastructure, and strategic doctrine reveals a force confined to coastal waters, incapable of sustained power projection beyond the Arabian Sea. While India’s navy ascends as a blue-water power with global ambitions, Pakistan’s maritime capabilities remain tethered to […]

The guns have fallen silent along the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistani- and Indian-administered Kashmir. A fragile ceasefire is in place, but this calm is unlikely to last. Pakistan has a long history of breaking ceasefires and provoking conflict. India’s recent military operation, Operation Sindoor, forced a temporary de-escalation and pushed Pakistan onto the defensive. Yet this tactical success […]

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have revolutionised the way wars are being fought. Over just a few years, the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation has changed the nature of conventional warfare. In 2020, the US used the MQ-9 Reaper weaponised drone with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles to carry out a targeted decapitation operation for the assassination of Qassem […]

In a rare failure of military modernisation, the newly built 5,000-ton-class destroyer by North Korea was damaged at a launch event on 21 May 2025 at the north-eastern port of Chongjin. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the warship became unbalanced and was punctured in its bottom sections after a transport cradle on the stern section slid […]