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Iran Press TV Thursday, 25 June 2026 6:21 AM Iran says the NATO member states complicit in the illegal US-Israeli aggression against Iran, namely Italy and Romania, must be held accountable for their war crimes against the nation. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks in an X post on Thursday after NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte cited Italy and Romania as examples of European countries that supported the recent military assault against Iran. “Italy and Romania are explicitly named by NATO’s SG to have participated in the aggression against Iran,” he said. “They, along with every other European…

ROC Central News Agency 06/25/2026 02:55 PM Taipei, June 25 (CNA) The Taiwan High Court on Thursday reduced the prison sentences of three former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) staffers convicted of passing classified information to Chinese intelligence agents and acquitted a fourth, overturning a lower court ruling issued last year. The High Court sentenced Huang Chu-jung (黃取榮) to six years in prison for violating the Classified National Security Information Protection Act and money laundering, reducing the Taipei District Court’s sentence of 10 years. Ho Jen-chieh (何仁傑), a former adviser to then-Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) sentenced to eight years and…

The research infrastructure that underpins America’s prowess in defense technology is “deteriorating,” according to a Department of Defense report released Wednesday.One reason is that research funds are being diverted to operations.The Pentagon’s “research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) infrastructure is deteriorating and weakening the Department’s ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability,” warned the report by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. “Authorized major military construction (MILCON) projects for modernization of critical joint-mission RDT&E infrastructure continually slip due to the services’ reprioritizing of scarce MILCON funds toward other operationally relevant priorities.”The study examined…

Wolfhagen, Germany, 25 June 2026 – After less than two years of construction, the logistics infrastructure in Wolfhagen was officially opened with a ceremonial handover of the keys. It will house the warehousing operations for the Bundeswehr Central Spare Parts Logistics (ZEBEL) project and the component hub. Operations are set to begin in early September. The large-scale project was carried out by bauWerk Gesellschaft für Projektberatung und Baumanagement mbH, based in Gießen. In addition to project development, the company also managed the entire project through to its turnkey handover. Here, HENSOLDT, as the tenant, is responsible for the storage of…

Much of Washington has greeted the Iran cease-fire deal with scorn. After more than three months of war, the United States and Israel failed to achieve many of their objectives, which included overthrowing the regime in Tehran and ending a potential Iranian nuclear threat.But when viewed from a broader perspective, the outcome looks different. The almost three-year-long regional conflict that started with Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2023 and culminated in Operation Epic Fury this spring has put the United States and its partners in a far stronger position in the Middle East and left Iran much weaker. Iran’s…

A Finnish defense communications company has secured a place on the United Kingdom’s largest tactical communications procurement framework, gaining access to a purchasing vehicle valued at approximately $10.5 billion that will govern how British armed forces buy military radio and communications systems for the next eight years. KNL, a defense communications subsidiary of Telenor Group, […]

HGH, a global leader in electro-optical and infrared solutions, announces a new major contract with EDGE Group’s naval arm, Abu Dhabi Ship Building PJSC (ADSB), to equip eight Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) under the Kuwait Navy’s AL DORRA program with its advanced SPYNEL 360° infrared surveillance systems. HGH press release The new contract builds on the long-standing cooperation between HGH and ADSB established through the UAE Navy’s FALAJ 3 program, for which HGH previously supplied eight SPYNEL solutions for four OPVs currently under construction. Under the AL DORRA program, HGH’s 360° IR surveillance cameras and their CYCLOPE software will be fully integrated…

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian firm behind many of the long-range drone strikes that now regularly hit Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles inside its borders is moving into missile defense, signing a major deal this month to build a low-cost ballistic missile interceptor with foreign partners — a turn that positions the company as a key provider at both ends of the deep-strike war.Fire Point makes the munitions bolstering much of Ukraine’s campaign against targets deep inside Russia, including the FP-1 deep-strike drone, the shorter-range FP-2 and the FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile.Last week, the firm announced plans to build…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org Three of four congressional committees with influence over defense policy have voted to change the official name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War—but final approval of the Pentagon rebrand is months away and not yet assured.  The House Appropriations Committee voted on party lines to amend its version of the 2027 federal spending bill to remove all references to the Department of Defense, the Office of the…