Concerns are growing in Okinawa Prefecture that it could become embroiled in military conflict as the Self-Defense Forces bolster missile deployment in the sprawling southwestern Nansei Islands ...

A couple of troubling recent episodes stoked suspicions that the Self-Defense Forces, which came into being with the pacifist postwar Constitution, may not have completely freed itself from the legacy ...

Japan marks 70 years since the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces on Monday, as the country’s defense establishment grapples with dramatic policy shifts and faces down challenges ranging from ...

DUBAI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A Syrian government soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northern governorate of Aleppo on Tuesday, Syria's state news agency ...

A member of Syria’s internal security forces was killed and three were injured, along with civilians, in Aleppo clashes. Graduates of Syria's General Security Service under the country's new ...