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The US State Department said on Friday that Taiwan had requested to buy an estimated $620 million upgrade package for its Patriot missiles “in order to support an operational life of 30 years.” The Department said Lockheed Martin would be the main contractor and explicitly announced that the sale would …

The US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty has become an irreparable mistake, which makes the return to the agreement impossible, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. “I would like to say that several mistakes, committed by the US, entailed irreparable consequences. One of those huge mistakes, …

TEHRAN: The US occupation forces have smuggled another batch of fuel from Syria in continuation of their illegal presence in the country’s oilfields. The US occupation forces smuggled a convoy full of fuel to Iraq from the areas it occupies in the Syrian al-Jazeera area to Iraq. Local sources in …

TEHRAN: Sexual assault in the US army has once again come under the spotlight as service members and veterans take to social media to share stories of sexual harassment in the military amid an investigation into the murder of a female soldier. Army investigators said, this week, they identified human remains …

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE : U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his not currently thinking about negotiating a “Phase 2” trade deal with China as relations between Washington and Beijing sour over the coronavirus pandemic and other issues. Trump, asked by reporters aboard Air Force One about the possibility …

India has urged its military equipment suppliers to expedite the delivery of weapons systems, as tensions along the 4,057 km Line of Actual Control have escalated since April. The US, France and Russia have agreed to supply military systems within three months once an order is placed, say government sources. …

A UN special rapporteur says the US has put the world at unprecedented peril with its assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, warning that it is high time the international community broke its silence on Washington’s drone-powered unlawful killings. The January 3 assassination set a “dangerous …

China says its relations with the United states are facing the most serious challenge since their establishment, urging the two countries to send out more “positive energy.” “Current US policy towards China is based on strategic misjudgments which lack a factual basis,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a …

WASHINGTON:A Michigan town wants machines to speed up counting of absentee ballots. In Ohio, officials want to equip polling places so voters and poll workers feel safe from the coronavirus. Georgia officials, rattled by a chaotic election last month, want to send voters forms so they can request absentee ballots …

Leaked documents revealed that the U.S. authorities feared an Iranian attack within American soil after Washington ordered the assassination of the late Quds Force commander, Major-General Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad on January 2nd. The online publication, National Interest, quoted a leaked intelligence report as saying that security officials in Washington …