The United States (US) military’s top officer warned on Tuesday that any war with North Korea would be “nasty” and said America still hopes to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis. General Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon’s role is to …

There’s a place for arms control in the Trump administration’s new nuclear strategy. It’s a very small place. “Progress in arms control is not an end in and of itself,” page 73 of the 74-page strategy says, adding that new advances in arms control are “difficult to envision”. Such agreements …

WASHINGTON: The US-Pakistan relationship appears to have survived yet another near-fatal blow as Washington reaffirmed that it had no desire to sever ties with Pakistan or launch military strikes inside its territory. The assurance about maintaining the bilateral relationship came from Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, who delivered this …