Security

China sanctions two US firms, points to arms trade with Taiwan

BEIJING — China on Thursday announced rare sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it called their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary. The...
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Ukraine’s parliament passes controversial law to boost conscripts

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s parliament passed a controversial law Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new soldiers to replenish depleted forces that are increasingly struggling to fend off Russian troops. Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion...
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South Korean military paves way for robotic vehicles in its ranks

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — As its military looks to tap new technologies to compensate for a dwindling conscript force, South Korea has launched a tender to procure unmanned ground vehicles for the nation’s Army and Marines Corps. A tender published by the Defense...
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Secretive US cyber force deployed 22 times to aid foreign governments

U.S. cyber specialists toiled in more than a dozen countries last year as part of a push to fortify networks and expose tools used by hackers, according to the leader of Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. The so-called hunt-forward missions, conducted by...
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