Weapons

Archaeologists discover Anglo-Saxon child buried with shield, spear in medieval cemetery in Kent

Four medieval swords were also discovered during excavation.

Target practice for jousting: consisting of a cross-bar turning upon a pivot with a broad part to strike against. Illustration after a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. An engraving from The Sports and Pastimes of the people of England, by Joseph Strutt, (London, 1833).
IDF soldiers on Israel's border with Syria, September 9, 2025.

WATCH: IDF troops locate, dismantle weapons storage facility in southern Syria

Hamas terrorist in vehicle as they go with Red Cross vehicle to area within the Yellow Line, Gaza City, November 20, 2025.

Watch: Hamas seen exploiting emergency vehicles to transport weapons within Gaza Strip

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) sails alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.

US fighter jet downs Iranian drone near aircraft carrier, gunboats approach US-flagged tanker


Hamas willing to 'freeze or store' weapons to prevent escalation, official tells AP

Hamas Shura Council member Bassem Naim told AP it is open to halting weapons use during a truce but rejects a US-proposed stabilization force entering Palestinian territory.

Hamas Shura Council member Bassen Naim at a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, November 8, 2023; illustrative.

Israel will not annex West Bank soon, Netanyahu assures Germany's Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz: Germany believes Israel should have conducted war differently • German chancellor explains imposing, removal of arms embargo

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025

How the Philippines turned tech and truth into weapons – and why Israel should care - opinion

The genius of the Philippine strategy lies in converting military asymmetry into cognitive superiority. They cannot out-gun the Chinese Navy, but they can out-truth them.

Filipino troops watch members of the U.S. Army National Guard demonstrate their rappelling skills during the Urban Search and Rescue activity of the 2016 RP-US Balikatan joint military exercises in Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal east of Manila

Hamas's Khaled Mashaal: We will not disarm, give up control in Gaza, or accept int'l oversight

Israel's Foreign Ministry, sharing footage of Mashaal's address, slammed the comments, calling them a "direct contradiction of the core terms of the peace plan itself."

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal addresses an Istanbul conference, December 6, 2025.

Lockheed Martin opens new hypersonic weapons facility

Hypersonic weapons can travel at more than five times the speed of sound and evade traditional defenses

Dark Eagle hypersonic missiles.

Jewish, Israeli rights groups urge UN to recognize Hamas’s systematic sexual violence

The organizations warned of what they described as growing efforts from the UN to deny Hamas’s weaponization of sexual violence against the hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, massacre.

ISRAELI WOMEN protest outside UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, in November. Finally, yet months too late, a UN team investigating the sexual violence against women in Israel on October 7 found “reasonable grounds” to believe that such violence did indeed occur.

Archaeologists find record-size Ming Dynasty cannon at Great Wall of China

Chinese archaeologists uncovered the largest Ming Dynasty cannon ever found during excavations at the Great Wall’s Jiankou section, alongside rare artifacts and ancient structures.

A Chinese flag flies with tourists hiking along the Great Wall, near Beijing, China, November 10, 2025; illustrative.

Armed drones continue to fly ahead, and so is the tech bringing them down - analysis

Several dozen c-UAS companies, both Israeli and international, took part in the recent UVID Drone conference in Tel Aviv last week, highlighting their technology

An aircraft lands on the tarmac near a "No Drone Zone" placard on the day of an emergency meeting of Belgian government officials and experts, following drone sightings that closed Brussels Airport, at Brussels international Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, November 6, 2025.

IDF undercover commandos capture 'major' terrorist arms dealer near Tulkarm

Duvdevan commandos detained a central Tulkarm arms dealer in Irtah after a counterterrorism operation based off Shin Bet intelligence.

IDF soldiers of the Duvdevan Unit; illustrative.

Tackling West Bank terror: IDF arrests more than 40 suspects, seizes weapons in a week of raids

Personnel from the IDF, Israel Police and Shin Bet confiscated tens of thousands of shekels to be used in terror funding, dozens of weapons, and arrested scores of suspects.

Weapons confiscated in IDF raids on the West Bank over the past week.