TEHRAN, Jun 4 - France's weapons sales to Saudi Arabia rose 50 pct in 2018 despite the government calling for an end to the "dirty war" in Yemen, figures released on Tuesday showed.
TEHRAN, May 26-US President Donald Trump has downplayed North Korea’s missile tests amid negotiations with Washington, asserting that he is not disturbed by the “small weapons ” fired by Kim Jong Un.
TEHRAN, May 25 -Moscow is deploying its military specialists to Congo to provide service for Russian-made military hardware and equipment in the sub-Saharan African country.
TEHRAN, May 19 - Syria has dismissed fabricated news issued by terrorist groups and some media outlets affiliated to them about Syrian armed forces' use of chemical weapons in the town of Kobani in the western coastal province of Latakia.
TEHRAN, May 01 -Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says a US bid to cut Iran’s oil exports to zero is a “pious hope,” warning countries using oil as a weapon about repercussions of further volatility in the global market.
TEHRAN, Apr 06 - Pope Francis has blamed Europe and the United States for selling weapons in war zones, fueling conflicts and causing victims in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, Mar 27 -Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Thursday he expected debris from an Indian anti-satellite weapons test to eventually burn up in the atmosphere instead of creating a lasting debris field that could threaten other satellites.
TEHRAN, Mar 03 - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that North Korea does not have any economic future with nuclear weapons as the Pentagon confirmed the United States and South Korea had agreed to end joint large scale spring military exercises.
TEHRAN, Feb 23 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised his country’s advanced military prowess, saying Russian weapons are unparalleled in the world and would likely stay ahead of their rivals for the foreseeable future as Moscow plans to constantly upgrade them.
TEHRAN, Feb 19 -Seven foreign nationals — including five US citizens — have been arrested while in possession of high-grade weaponry in Haiti, which is plagued by unrest.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 - Haitian police arrested a group of foreign nationals including Americans armed with semi-automatic weapons , Haitian newspapers reported on Monday, adding to uncertainty in the poor Caribbean country after more than a week of anti-government protests.
TEHRAN, Feb 01 - The U.S. special envoy for North Korea laid out an extensive list of demands for North Korean denuclearization on Thursday that is likely to anger Pyongyang, even as President Donald Trump said the date and place for a second summit was set and hailed "tremendous progress" in his dealings with the country.
TEHRAN, Jan 30 - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri highlighted the country’s self-sufficiency in the military sphere and said the Islamic Republic is prepared to mass produce and export individual weapons .
TEHRAN, Jan 14- The OPCW global chemical weapons watchdog will add Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent used in an attack last year in Salisbury, England, to its list of banned toxins after its members adopted a proposal on Monday.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Initiative 1639, approved in November, went into effect on Tuesday in Washington State. The legislation bans the sale of semi-automatic weapons to anyone under the age of 21.
TEHRAN, December 30-The US Navy has placed the development of hypersonic weapons on its “acquisition wish list” after Russia’s recent announcement of successful test and planned its deployment in 2019 of an “invincible” strategic missile that can fly 27 times the speed of sound.
TEHRAN, December 11 -Iran has roundly dismissed claims of its links to a weapons cache discovered in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni, warning against attempts to harm growing relations between the two neighbors.
TEHRAN, December 10 -American weapons makers continue to dominate the global arms trade, accounting for over half of all the weapons sold in the world last year while Russia continued to gradually expand its market, a new study shows.
TEHRAN, December 08 -The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center received approval to enter the production phase for the B61-12 nuclear bomb's upgraded tail-fin assembly.