Tag: Missiles

A German ship carrying patriot missile equipment arrived in the Turkish port of Iskenderun as part of an effort to stop violence in Syria...

India has launched a major plan to construct underground shelters for storing missiles, rockets and ammunition close to the borders with Pakistan and China....

Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Syrian government forces are continuing to fire short-range ballistic missiles at rebel fighters. A Nato source told...

The NATO military alliance has agreed to the deployment of Patriot missiles as requested by member Turkey to help defend its border against possible...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday said days were gone when the stability and security of a country was defined in...

Afghan authorities alleged on Tuesday that over 100 missiles had been fired from Pakistan during the latest wave of shelling into the eastern Kunar...

The Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have shoulder-launched missile systems,including Stingers made by the United States, Russia's top general said...

Twin bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Thursday as deadly violence raged across the country and Turkey deployed missile batteries...

For the third time in five days, India test-fired two indigenously developed surface-to-air anti-aircraft 'Akash' missiles from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. The double...

British military chiefs said they hoped the deployment of surface-to-air missiles in a London park Thursday would "allay people's fears" as the armed forces...

Two US drone strikes struck militants in North Waziristan on Thursday, killing at least 21, officials said. The aircraft fired missiles hours apart on separate...

A US missile strike killed at least six suspected militants near the Afghan border on Saturday, two intelligence officials said, in the third such...

A US missile strike killed three people near the Afghan border here on Monday. Reportedly, three missiles hit a vehicle close to Mir Ali town...

Iran said on Saturday it test-fired two long-range missiles into the Indian Ocean earlier this year, the first time it has fired missiles into...

ISLAMABAD/BHUBANESWAR - Pakistan and India tested their short-ranged nuclear missiles on Friday. Pakistan test fired its Surface-to-Surface (STS) Ballistic Missile Hataf-2 (Abdali) while India test fired a missile named Dhanush, meaning "archer's bow" in Sanskrit, in the morning from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal off to the eastern Orissa state and the second missile, the Prithvi II, or Earth, blasted off soon afterwards from a testing range at Chandipur-on-Sea, 200 kilometres

MOSCOW - Russia announced on Saturday that it intended to fulfil its contract to supply Syria with cruise missiles despite the turmoil shaking the Arab world and Israel's furious condemnation of the deal.
"The contract is in the implementation stage," news agencies quoted Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as saying. Russia initially agreed to send a large shipment of anti-ship Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria in 2007 under the terms of a controversial deal that was only

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Navy on Monday successfully test-fired several surface-to-air missiles to assess its air defence capabilities. Three surface-to-air missile tests were carried out in Sonmiani area of Sindh province, a navy spokesman said. He added that all missiles hit their targets precisely.
Naval chief Admiral Noman Bashir and Air Defence Commander Vice Admiral Tayyab Ali Dogar witnessed the drill, the spokesman said, in a statement issued here. "The successful