Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

The SDF will focus on battles ... frequently intrudes into Japanese territorial waters around the islands. The ships have become larger and are now equipped with heavy weapons.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Iraq on Sunday for talks with officials on the fight against Kurdish ...

TOKYO -- Japan will create a new maritime transport unit in its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in March as it looks ... with plans for 10 new ships by fiscal 2027. The new maritime transport group ...

The SDF's accumulated power has placed it — and Syria's ethnic ... A British submarine secretly tracking a Russian spy ship hanging around undersea cables surfaced close to it to send a message, UK ...

Gen. Koji Yamazaki, the chief of staff of the Joint Staff, said at his Feb. 18 news conference that the SDF was taking the intrusions by Chinese Coast Guard ships “very seriously.” But ...

The ships require only 90 crew members through the ... formally known as the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), has struggled to recruit new troops. In 2023, the SDF barely reached half of its recruitment ...

The threats from China and North Korea aren’t going anywhere, Japan is in the midst of a historic arms buildup, and a Japanese company is one of the three big investors in the newly announced ...

The SDF is currently involved in fighting the Turkish-backed Syrian ... The rebels maintain they target ships linked to Israel, the U.S. or the U.K. to force an end to Israel’s campaign against Hamas ...