The United States has paused a proposed USD 14 billion arms sale to Taiwan due to concerns about maintaining sufficient munitions for potential conflicts, particularly in light of the ongoing situation with Iran.
16 days into the war, US forces were already running out of ground-attack missiles and Israel is about to expend its entire Arrow interceptor missiles by end March. To be sure, the Iranians are watching closely and that explains their defiant stance that 'Iran will end the war when it decides to do so and when its conditions are met', notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
In an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Saturday, Putin said that such a move by Trump would "lead to the destruction of our relations. At least the positive tendencies that have appeared in these relations."
Tensions between the United States and Russia have reached new heights amid the ongoing Ukraine conflict, with a series of developments marking a dangerous escalation.
India on Thursday successfully conducted the first test-fire of its indigenously developed short-range, quick reaction, tactical missile Prahar from the Integrated Test Range off Orissa coast. "The test launch was fully successful as the surface-to-surface, sleek missile mounted on a road mobile launcher roared into an overcast sky, seconds within its blast off," defence sources said. The sophisticated missile was test fired from ITR's launch pad-3 at approximately 8:15 am.
North Korea on Friday launched an ICBM for the second time in a month.
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