DefenceTalkIt was supposed to be an evening of entertainment in Gaza, watching the World Cup semi-final at a cafe, a welcome break from 48 hours of Israeli air strikes. But the evening was cut brutally short when an Israeli raid flattened the Fun Time Beach cafe in the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours […]https://www.defencetalk.com/world-cup-fans-killed-as-israel-raid-hits-gaza-cafe-60109/

DefenceTalkMilitia fighters stole hundreds of American-supplied automatic weapons and other equipment in a raid on a Libyan base where the US was training local forces, bringing an abrupt end to the secretive program, a report said Tuesday. Elite US troops have been tasked since last year with covertly forming local counterterrorism units in Libya, Mauritania, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/libya-militia-stole-us-weapons-in-raid-report-59718/

DefenceTalkPakistan army helicopters fired missiles killing three militants on Sunday, officials said, in apparent retaliation for a Taliban bomb attack that killed 20 soldiers in the restive northwest. The helicopters fired at a road in the village of Musaki situated in the same tribal region as the bombing earlier Sunday, intelligence and civil administration officials […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-retaliates-after-20-pakistan-soldiers-killed-in-bomb-attack-50147/

DefenceTalkIsrael is ready to act alone to stop Iran making a nuclear bomb, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, in a warning against rushing into deals with Tehran’s new leaders. “Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone,” Netanyahu told a UN summit, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/israel-ready-to-tackle-nuclear-iran-alone-netanyahu-49249/

DefenceTalkArab nations have offered to help pay for any US military intervention in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers Wednesday as he sought support for missile strikes. “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear the cost and to assist, the answer is profoundly yes, they have. That offer is on the table,” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-tells-us-it-needs-un-approval-for-syria-strike-48960/

DefenceTalkCBS News has learned that the Pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces. We say “initial preparations” because such an attack won’t happen until the president gives the green light. And it was clear during an interview on CNN Friday that he is not there yet. “If […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-preps-for-possible-cruise-missile-attack-on-syria-48849/

DefenceTalkBaghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, a top Iraqi minister told AFP. The remarks from Hussein al-Shahristani, deputy prime minister responsible for energy affairs, mark the first time a senior Iraqi official has publicly […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iraq-warns-israel-on-using-airspace-in-iran-strike-48016/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea threatened a “pre-emptive” nuclear strike against the United States and any other aggressors Thursday as the UN Security Council prepared to adopt tough sanctions against the isolated state. A foreign ministry spokesman also warned that a second Korean war was “unavoidable”, with both the United States and South Korea refusing Pyongyang’s demands to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-threatens-pre-emptive-nuclear-strike-on-us-47088/