Ireland is scaling up its maritime security, with the Defence Forces set to join a European intelligence-sharing pact. Tánaiste Simon Harris has also directed officials in the Department of Defence to ...

Ireland is considering changing the main tenets of its defence policies as the country grapples with an identified crisis over its traditional pillars of foreign affairs and security, and it may need ...

Out of 708 new recruits hired last year, just 40 were female as the backlash from the recent sexual and bullying scandal hits home ...

Automatic firearms, ammunition and explosives were kept in a shipping container at Garda Headquarters without proper ...

Police enquiries established that the murder weapon, a Ruger rifle, had been used in subsequent attacks on the security forces. Prosecutors said they can link Mr Donegan, who has lived in the Republic ...

The mother of an Australian soldier found to have died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound was told her son had ...

Later Saturday, though, U.S. President Donald Trump maintained an aggressive tone, telling NBC News that “I never take military force off the table” in regards to acquiring Greenland.

Meanwhile, the Government here has announced that it has awarded a €16.5m contact to Belgian company Seyntex to supply 6,105 modern ‘body armour’ suits for Defence Forces personnel.

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), in Myanmar to aid search and rescue efforts following the massive earthquake that struck the country on March 28, rescued a man trapped ...

The new body armour system, designed in-house by a Defence Forces team, is expected to provide greater protection against ballistics and fragmentation. It has been designed so it can be modified ...

The Niger Republic has withdrawn an international force fighting armed Islamist groups ... about 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base. And the Niger Republic has become ...