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Mattis, along with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, will meet President Ashraf Ghani and other top officials to discuss the US-led NATO train and assist mission designed to strengthen Afghanistans military so it can defend the country on its own. (Photo: AP/File)

US defence secretary says US, India working to turn big words into...

Mattis said that India and the US now have a strategic convergence of two natural partners, the two largest democracies...

5 Oct 2017 11:10 AM GMT

The US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis calls on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi (Photo: PIB)

Pentagon chief says no Indian troops in Afghan because of Pak...

The defence secretary insisted that an open border trade between India and Pakistan would help in bringing regional...

5 Oct 2017 5:38 AM GMT

The US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis calls on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi (Photo: PIB)

Hope India-US defence ties aid regional peace: China on Mattis' visit...

China has a kept close watch on Mattis visit, which comes in the backdrop of New Delhi and Washington steadily stepping...

28 Sep 2017 12:33 PM GMT

However, there is not much of an insight in the latest declassified document as to how Rumsfeld planned to increase mil-to-mil cooperation with India. (Photo: File/AP)

US wanted increased military cooperation with India post-9/11 attack

The then US Defence Secretary memo of less than 10 words reflects how the 9/11 terrorist attack changed America's...

25 Jan 2018 7:02 AM GMT

I said that the United States has to be compensatedwell compensatedbecause we are the ones that are making it possible, and so we should be compensated, President Donald Trump said referring to his demand for a percentage for the government on the possible sale deal of TikTok to an American company. (Photo | AFP)

Donald Trump fires Defence Secretary Mark Esper via Twitter

Trump's firing comes days after Esper in an interview told The Military Times that he was not a "yes man" for the...

10 Nov 2020 6:19 AM GMT

Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | US doesn't really want to know why it lost in Kabul

The macabre headlines about US Marines urinating on a pile of dead Afghans made Page One in many newspapers

8 Oct 2021 8:25 PM GMT

I cannot imagine a condition under which the United States would accept North Korea as a nuclear power, Jim Mattis said. (Photo: AP)

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis quits over policy dispute with Trump

Mattis told Trump deserved defence secretary 'whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects.'

21 Dec 2018 4:20 AM GMT

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis presented the initial draft of the review to Trumps top national security advisors. (Photo: AP)

US Defence Secy says denial of USD 350 million aid to Pak reality, not...

Pakistan-based Haqqani network is blamed for a number of high-profile attacks on US and Western interests in war-torn...

22 July 2017 7:05 AM GMT