Topic: Asia
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. military investigation has found American and Afghan commandos wrongly concluded there were no Pakistani forces in a border area where an air strike killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.In a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is giving, not selling, two dozen second-hand F-16 fighter planes to Indonesia to strengthen security ties with an "important U.S. partner," the Defense Department said on Monday,Elaborating on an announcement on Friday by the presidents of ...
The United States said it reached a deal with North Korea to resume searches for remains of Americans killed in the Korean War, after a six-year break in one of the enemy nations' only means of contact.The accord suggested a slight easing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and North Korean officials hold talks in Thailand on Tuesday on resuming recovery of the remains of American soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, the Pentagon said in a statement.The talks in Bangkok come amid a renewed ...
South Korea's military operates giant trucks which print and send thousands of leaflets and transmit broadcasts as part of psychological warfare against North Korea, said a report disclosed on Wednesday.North Korea, which tightly controls news from outside, has responded angrily to past ...
The United States responded cautiously Friday to North Korea's announcement it would discuss operations to locate US dead from the 1950-53 Korean War, saying only that the issue was important.North Korea said it had accepted a US proposal to talk about resuming ...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Thursday he would not accept large military cutbacks under a debt deal, charging the move would weaken the United States faced with rising powers.Panetta, holding his first formal news conference since taking charge of the Pentagon a ...
President Barack Obama has chosen as his new deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter, a top Pentagon official who dealt with North Korea and the denuclearization of former Soviet republics.The White House said Obama intends to nominate the 56-year-old, currently the under secretary ...
The United States and China on Friday held top-level talks on Taiwan, with Washington working pre-emptively to avoid a fallout as a decision nears on whether to sell fighter-jets to Taiwan.US officials have said that they will decide by October 1 on ...
North Korean landmine parts apparently churned up by torrential rains have washed up across the border in South Korea, prompting a search for more weapons, the defence ministry said Saturday.The wooden shells of two North Korean landmines were found Thursday in a ...
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