China Answers the F-35. The FC-31 Gyrfalcon Stealth Fighter Takes Flight!

China recently tested the latest version of what they call a Fifth Generation Stealth fighter, the FC-31 Gyrfalcon. Reports are that China hopes to sell the aircraft to other countries as they compete with the F-35 for international sales. The new FC-31 has “better stealth capabilities, improved electronic equipment and a larger payload capacity” than the […]

China and India up defense spending, spurring concerns about an Asian arms race

Tensions in the South China Sea have been high in recent years, due in large part to territorial disputes between Asian nations over the ocean waterways in the region.  China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines all have contradictory jurisdictional claims in the area, driven by military posturing and the possibility of massive oil […]

Pakistan plays up, then plays down prime minister’s chummy call with Trump

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The morning papers were giddy with hyperbole on Thursday over the news that Donald Trump had spoken to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by phone a day earlier and showered compliments on a country he once accused of “betrayal and disrespect” — even offering to help the nuclear power solve its problems abroad. […]

Cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan escalates sharply; at least 20 dead

NEW DELHI — Heavy cross-border shelling in the disputed Kashmir region killed at least three Pakistani soldiers and seven Indian troops on Wednesday, Pakistan’s military said, in a sharp escalation of violence after a deadly ambush of three Indian soldiers. At least 10 civilians also were killed, witnesses said. Pakistan’s military announced the death toll […]

India says Pakistani diplomat arrested at Delhi zoo was spy ring kingpin

India says it will expel a Pakistani diplomat it accuses of being the “kingpin” of a spy ring, after his arrest on Wednesday outside the gates of the Delhi zoo, where police allege he was planning to meet Indian contacts he had recruited. Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours are at their highest for more than a […]

Police kill 24 Maoist insurgents in India

Police killed at least 24 Maoist rebels in a remote, forested area of Odisha on Monday, police said, one of the heaviest casualty tolls suffered by the insurgents in recent years. Acting on a tip-off, police tracked a group of around 30 Maoists who had gathered at a makeshift training camp close to the border […]

Sectarian violence spills into the UK

Two of the world’s nuclear powers almost went to war recently to little notice in the UK. And yet the group accused of being the spark for the violence and the countries involved are ones with deep historical links to this country. Violence in South Asia has a habit of resonating in Britain, be it […]

Pakistan’s terrorists by proxy

A prominent Pakistani journalist claims the government prohibited him from exiting the county after he wrote an article illuminating a potential schism between military and government leaders. The article claiming that Pakistan’s top spy agency is protecting militants comes as India has accused Islamabad of backing terrorists, stroking global fears of a potential conflict between the two nuclear armed […]

Indian army camp in Kashmir comes under attack

Attackers opened fire at a paramilitary camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, according to an army spokesperson, killing one border guard and wounding another. According to reports, it was the 46 Rashtriya Rifles army camp in Kashmir’s Baramulla district that came under attack on Sunday evening. Sunday’s incident comes just days after forces from India and Pakistan […]

Consequences of Pakistani Terrorism

India’s doctrine of “strategic restraint” toward Pakistan was tested again Wednesday, after the Indian Army responded to a Sept. 18 attack against an Indian base that killed 19 soldiers by conducting raids against terrorist facilities just inside Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Islamabad has addressed the incidents with its usual mix of bluster and denial, but if it […]

India claims ‘surgical strikes’ against militants in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir

India’s military claimed Thursday it hit suspected militant camps in the Pakistan-controlled region of disputed Kashmir, marking a steep rise in tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals. Both sides offered sharply conflicting accounts, however, underscoring the heightened suspicions and volatility in an area that has been at the heart of India-Pakistan friction for decades. In […]