President Donald Trump’s team of defense advisers is taking shape, this week adding two high-level officials who have called for slashing the American armed presence in Europe and broadly ...

Retired Sri Lanka army major general K H P Palitha Fernando has been appointed director general of the civil defense department on contract basis for a period of one year with immediate effect. E R S ...

H.P. Palitha Fernando to the post of the Director General of the Department of Civil Defense with immediate effect on contract basis for a period of one (01) year.

STUTTGART, Germany — NATO countries are ready to “turbocharge” defense spending, the alliance’s top official said this week as the security bloc prepares for President Donald Trump’s ...

"Is anyone alive?" Civil Defence worker, Yasser Haboub, shouted into the rubble of the Abu Shaar family home, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike the middle of the night of 14 January at the ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed the Anti-Defamation League on Monday for issuing a defense of Elon Musk, the billionaire advisor to President Donald Trump, after Musk delivered a hand gesture ...

The Palestinian Civil Defense Society revealed that its crews continue to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel’s 15-month war, looking for bodies of those killed. Gaza’s civil ...

In a move to strengthen its national defense, Lithuania has announced plans to increase its defense spending to between 5 percent and 6 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), starting in 2026.

(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has decided to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of overall national economic output starting in 2026 due to the ...

The two parties that hold the majority are calling for substantial cuts, including to defense spending, that could complicate President Lai Ching-te’s plans to buy American arms both to fend off ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt wants to re-establish the Oklahoma State Guard and has directed the state’s Military Department to devise a plan for the civil defense force that would be under the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Kobie Turner (91) and Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Braden Fiske (55 ...