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Iran now claims its arrested 17 U.S. spies, some of whom have already been executed. Nathan Rousseau Smith has the details. Buzz60 Another foreign oil tanker was seized in the Persian Gulf, Iran's state media said Sunday  the third such ship to be detained…

I am not a short man and I am also not a very rich man, so flying is an exercise in pain for me. Of course, thats unless my flight is on an Ilyushin Il-76 (NATO callsign: Candid) strategic airlifter. If Im on a Candid, the only seat for me…

During his two and a half years in the Trump Administration, Mike Pompeo has mostly managed to stay on President Donald Trumps good side, even as other senior officials have come and gone. But the Secretary of States relationship with the President is now bei…

Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and helped Donald Trump win. We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again? Just the FAQs, USA TODAY WASHINGTON  An era in arms control ended Friday with the formal unraveling of the 1987 Interm…

Nato has said it will not deploy nuclear missiles in Europe to avoid a new arms race with Russia following the demise of a key arms control agreement.  The United States on Friday officially withdraw from the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, which was sig…

This potential could therefore considerably restrict NATOs operational freedom of action in a conflict, they wrote, and as a result, NATOs general ability to defend itself could be seriously compromised. How to deter Russia and balance its missile deployment…

The official pullout from the INF Treaty comes six months after the Trump administration previewed its intention to scrap the 1987 agreement, citing repeated Russian violations. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The departure of the U.S. from the Intermediate-…

“Russia bears sole responsibility for the demise of the treaty,” the NATO allies said, referring to the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) that kept nuclear weapons out of Europe and avoided short-notice attacks. NATO has agreed ways to deter Rus…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO has agreed ways to deter Russia from launching a new, land-based, medium-range missile, the alliance said on Friday, saying it would respond “in a measured and responsible way”. The United States formally withdrew from a landmark n…

Washington DC - The United States on Friday will formally withdraw from a landmark arms control treaty with Russia, claiming it undermines its national security interests. The move means that only one, soon-to-expire, arms control treaty between the US and R…