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U.S. Central Command via XA pair of U.S. Navy SEALs lost at sea off the coast of Somalia last week were taking part in an operation that found Iranian missile parts on a small vessel heading to Houthi militants in Yemen, the U.S. military said Tuesday. A search and rescue mission is now underway in the Gulf of Aden between Somalia and Yemen after the U.S. personnel went into the waves during the boarding operation on Thursday. U.S. Central Command confirmed that the missing SEALs’ teammat...

As the U.S. strikes the Houthis and seizes more weapons from Iran bound for the Yemeni rebels, Qatar says focusing on the Red Sea attacks is "not treating the real issue."

Technological advances are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems that operate without meaningful human control, delegating life-and-death decisions to machines. The machine rather than the human operator would determine where, when, or against what force is applied. January 3, 2024,  https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/03/killer-robots-un-vote-should-spur-action-treaty Guterres Should Seek to Tackle Autonomous Weapons Systems (New York, January 3, 2023) – Countries…

The report also said that the U.S. Defense Department had improved its monitoring capacities in Ukraine and reduced its "overall delinquency rate."

The U.S. currently has no credible information that would suggest the theft or misuse of any weapons provided to Ukraine as military assistance, said U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel at a briefing on Jan. 11.

The Pentagon did not properly track $1 billion worth of military equipment sent to Ukraine, according to a watchdog report released on Thursday.

Shortfalls in required monitoring by American officials mean the U.S. cannot track more than $1 billion in weapons and military equipment provided to Ukraine to fight invading Russian forces, according to a Pentagon audit released Thursday. The findings mean that 59% of $1.7 billion in defense gear that the U.S. has provided Ukraine and was directed to guard against misuse or theft remained “delinquent," the report by the Defense Department's office of the inspector-general, th...

More than $1 billion worth of U.S. missiles, drones and other weapons and equipment sent to Ukraine have not been properly tracked by officials, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday. Of a total of $1.69 billion worth of items that require additional layers of tracking and monitoring thanks to their sensitive military technology, a little more than $1 billion — or nearly 60 percent — are not fully accounted for, the report found. The Defense Department’s inspector...

Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity. In a foreign policy address to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, Francis lamented that 2024 had dawned at a time in history in which peace is “increasingly threatened, weakened and in some part lost.” Citing Russia’s wa...

Countries that approved the first-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on “killer robots” should promote negotiations on a new international treaty to ban and regulate these weapons, Human Rights Watch said today.