38 countries to send military personnel to India for training;
Indian, Chinese officials discuss border dispute;
U.S. airstrike kills senior Pakistani Taliban commander;
Hazara seek Taliban protection;
Ghani nominates 16 ministers to round out cabinet
At first glance, Grozny seems like an odd place for a gathering of the world's best fighters. The capital of Russia's restive Chechen Republic, Grozny is in a better place today than it was in the 1990s and early 2000s, when it was ground zero for two brutal wars between Islamist insurgents and the Russian state. But the city, like the region it inhabits, still ranks high on the misery index. Despite a major rebuilding effort on the part of the government, Chechnya's unemployment and poverty rates are among the highest in the Russian Federation, and the region has emerged as a significant source of angry young men who have traveled to the Middle East to join the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
New Indo-Israeli missile defense cooperation;
North Korea's missile progress unnerves U.S.;
Iran plays defense...;
...and offense;
Seoul examines its options;
In Poland, missile defense as a check on Russian agressions
Militarizing Crimea;
Sharia finance comes to Russia
China dispatches air force to Myanmar border after bombing;
Beijing spreads 200,000 more Party officials across Xinjiang