Over alleged weapons program.

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U.N. Nuclear Team Lands in Iran

Every country involved in the dispute over Iran’s possibly acquiring nuclear weapons is calculating how the American presidential election plays to their agendas.

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News Analysis: Confronting Iran in a Year of Elections

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, the body that oversees a global ban on such weapons says.

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Libya had chemical weapon cache

A campaign of bombings, assassinations, defections and cyberattacks, which experts believe is mainly Israel’s work, seems meant to halt Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon.

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Adversaries of Iran Said to Be Stepping Up Covert Actions

Despite the ongoing, muffled debate over the use of armed U.S. drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere, technological advances allow better-integrated intelligence to go to those who pick targets, guaranteeing a continuation of these types of attacks from afar. Those same intelligence advances, however, also will enable better protection of American and allied forces fighting on the ground. Read full article > >

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Brave new world of weaponry

A document allegedly detailing non-lethal weaponry in development by the US military is published online.

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US weapons ‘wish list’ revealed

BEIRUT — Syrian security forces are still killing anti-government protesters despite the presence of foreign monitors in the country, the head of the Arab League said Monday. But he insisted the observer mission has yielded important concessions from the Damascus regime, such as the withdrawal of heavy weapons from cities. Read full article > >

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Arab League: Syrian tanks pull away from cities, but snipers, gunfire continue

SEOUL — Japan on Tuesday relaxed its long-standing ban on the export of weapons and military equipment, a move that will boost ailing Japanese defense companies and create new opportunities for international projects. The change, coming after more than a year of government discussion, reflects concern that Japan has fallen behind in weapons development, with its major companies unable to mass-produce and sell their technology abroad. The change also helps Japan at a time when the government has trimmed the budget for weapons procurement, despite regional threats from China and North Korea . Read full article > >

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Japan relaxes longtime weapons export ban

CAIRO — Egypt’s state prosecutor on Monday charged two Israelis and a Ukrainian with smuggling weapons and trying to implicate Egyptian security, the first case of its kind against foreigners since longtime President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February. A statement from the prosecutor’s office said the three would be tried in an emergency state security court, usually reserved for terrorism cases. No date for the trial has been set. Read full article > >

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Egypt charge 2 Israelis, 1 Ukrainian with smuggling weapons; 1st case involving foreigners

Mark Meckler tried to bring weapon on a plane.

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Tea Party Leader Busted With Gun

RICHMOND, Va. — The man who fatally ambushed a Virginia Tech police officer had legally purchased the handgun used in the shooting, Virginia State Police said Tuesday. Ross T. Ashely, 22, purchased the .40-caliber semiautomatic weapon used to gun down officer Derick Crouse in January from a licensed Virginia gun dealer, state police investigators said in a statement. The name of the dealer was not released. Read full article > >

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State Police: Virginia Tech gunman purchased handgun legally months before killing officer

Citizens are reluctant to give up the guns and other weapons they seized as they wrested control of the country from Qaddafi loyalists.

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Misurata Journal: Libya’s Weapons Are an Uprising’s Deadly Legacy

New York’s police commissioner will consider a recommendation from a departmental trial to dismiss a detective who fired his weapon during the 50-bullet fusillade that killed Sean Bell five years ago.

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For Sean Bell Case, a Call for Detective Isnora’s Badge

45,000 residents flee 4,000 pound weapon.

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WWII Bomb Forces Evacuation of City

The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has called it something else: homework. Read full article > >

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Georgetown students shed light on China’s tunnel system for nuclear weapons