Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye have signed a trilateral defence pact in Mecca that treats an attack on one as an attack on all. Read More

The body of Nirmal Purja, the Nepali mountaineer who rose to global fame as “Nimsdai,” was recovered on Broad Peak on Sunday, days after an avalanche tore through his 10-member expedition on the Karakoram giant and buried the entire team. Read More

The deaths of four Indian seafarers in Russia’s missile strike on MV Golden Leo have heightened concerns within India’s maritime community, with merchant sailors telling India Sentinels that civilian crews are increasingly exposed to deadly conflict zones while global trade continues uninterrupted. Read More

US president renews threat against fortified tunnel complex near Natanz as fresh satellite imagery shows construction still under way. Read More

Washington has signalled it will seek Lawrence Bishnoi's extradition from India after unsealing racketeering indictments tying his jailed-run syndicate to the 2023 assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Read More

A UN commission of inquiry has found that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank, amounting to genocide and war crimes. Read More

The UN’s maritime agency has launched a phased, tightly controlled operation to bring home crews trapped for nearly four months in the Gulf following the peace truce between Washington and Tehran. Fourteen seafarers did not survive the wait. Read More

The US-Iran MoU has halted more than 100 days of warfare and reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but the toughest disputes remain unresolved. Read More

Two strategic bombers – a US B-52 and a Russian Tu-22M3 – crashed on the same day in what amounts to a remarkable, if grim, coincidence involving the world’s two largest nuclear powers. Read More

Nuclear-armed states are expanding and modernizing their arsenals faster than they are dismantling them, with Operation Sindoor emerging as a defining stress test for deterrence, according to Sipri Yearbook 2026. Read More