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People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 08:21, June 25, 2026 KUWAIT CITY, June 24 (Xinhua) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said here Wednesday that U.S.-Iran technical talks are expected to resume next week, likely on June 29 or 30 in Switzerland. Rubio made the announcement during an official visit to Kuwait, where he met with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Kuwait News Agency reported. The meeting focused on bilateral cooperation and regional developments, it reported. Speaking to reporters in Kuwait City, Rubio said the United States remains committed to close coordination with its Gulf partners. He did…

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In November 2025, a frontier artificial intelligence developer disclosed what it assessed to be the first large-scale cyberattack carried out largely without human hands on the keyboard. A capable model, manipulated by a state-linked actor into believing it was running an authorized defensive exercise, performed the bulk of a multistage intrusion against roughly thirty organizations, spanning reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and credential harvesting, at a speed no human team could match. Humans entered the loop at only a handful of decision points. Seven months later, after a controlled evaluation in which a frontier model chained vulnerabilities across simulated enterprise networks,…

WARSAW, Poland — Munich-based counter-drone systems maker Tytan Technologies is readying to launch a new factory in Germany amid increasing demand for interceptor drones.Production activities at the facility, which will be capable of manufacturing 3,000 autonomous interceptors per month, are scheduled to begin this August, according to a senior company representative.Balázs Nagy, the chief executive and co-founder of Tytan Technologies, told Defense News the company’s interceptor drones are extensively used in Ukraine where the nation’s military has employed them as a cost-efficient, effective and easy-to-use solution to counter airborne threats.Legacy “systems couldn’t prove themselves in Ukraine. Bigger platforms have been…

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You can tell a lot about a person from what fiction they keep on their nightstand. Once a year, we make the staff, contributing editors, and show hosts of War on the Rocks tell on themselves.Kerry AndersonThe Midnight Library, Matt Haig (2020). Drawing on evergreen themes from books and movies such as Sliding Doors or It’s a Wonderful Life, The Midnight Library puts a fresh spin on questions like what’s the meaning of life, how does our presence (or absence) in the world affect those around us, what would have happened if we had made different choices, and are there…

Max Holloway represents a dream fight for many, and while AJ McKee exists within this context, it seems like he’s not completely confident that ‘Blessed’ wins his next contest. Holloway will take on the biggest star in the history of the sport, Conor McGregor, in a long-awaited rematch set to transpire in July at UFC 329. McKee has his own high-stakes bout as the former Bellator MMA champ prepares to clash with the unbeaten Salamat Isbulaev in the headline attraction of PFL San Diego on June 27th. Referencing a prior interview where ‘The Mercenary’ mentioned Max Holloway as his dream…

The strikes on Iran were designed to do what years of sanctions, isolation, and internal unrest had not: bring the Islamic Republic to the point of collapse. The architects of the campaign, whether in Washington or Tel Aviv, appeared to share a common strategic calculation: that a direct blow to the upper layers of the Iranian state, from the assassination of military commanders and political leaders to attacks on military and security infrastructure, would trigger mass anti-government mobilisation, encourage defections within the regime, and ultimately bring the Islamic Republic down from within. The calculation was not absurd. In recent years,…

click on image to enlarge The launch of EDGE Europe a few days before the opening of the Eurosatory 2026 exhibition was a strong sign of the increased interest of the UAE leading defence group in the Old Continent At the Villepinte exhibition EDR On-Line met Miles D. Chambers, the Senior Vice President of International Business at EDGE, to get an insight on the group strategy for Europe. “EDGE already has a footprint in Europe with the acquisitions of Milrem Robotics in Estonia, Anavia UAV company in Switzerland, while for several years we worked with Haenel and Merkel in Germany,”…

House appropriators supported a $1.5 billion White House budget request to back E-7 Wedgetail development, but pushed back on an attempt to raid the Navy’s airborne early warning account to partially fund the Air Force’s next-generation radar plane.In a letter last week, Russell Vought, the Office of Management and Budget director, detailed the E-7 shuffle to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. The Pentagon suggested pulling $651 million from the Navy’s E-2 procurement account and $899 million from the Air Force’s classified special update programs. While House appropriators backed the full E-7 funding in their version of the annual defense spending…