Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will embark on a trip this week where he'll visit various U.S. allies in Africa. His trip, starting Saturday, will include stops in Djibouti, Kenya, and Angola.

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is traveling to Africa next week to shore up U.S. defense relationships with allies during a time of heightened bloodshed across the continent and ...

SINGAPORE--Tensions between the United States and China are expected to loom over Asia's top security meeting this week, as China has declined a bilateral meeting between the superpowers' defense ...

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in more than two weeks, following the disappearance and replacement of ...

BEIJING, Sept 16 (Reuters) - General Li Shangfu, a veteran of China's military modernisation drive, rose through the ranks to ...

Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, raising questions about President Xi Jinping’s new line-up of ...

China’s latest missing minister underscores the move to centralised rule, and how questioning Xi’s judgement has become ...

BEIJING/HANOI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu abruptly pulled out of a meeting with Vietnamese defence leaders last week, three officials with direct knowledge of the ...

Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng will meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, the US State Department confirmed. The ...

China’s Defence Minister Li Shangfu is reportedly under investigation by the US government as turmoil deepens within ...

BEIJING: General Li Shangfu, a veteran of China's military modernisation drive, rose through the ranks to become defence ...