If this is your first time visiting Bible Prophecy In The News, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Never miss an update.. Thanks for visiting!The United States has ordered a warship to take up position off the coast of Lebanon in a show of support for the country’s embattled government.
The deployment of the USS Cole is being seen as a warning to Syria which - along with Iran - backs the opposition.
The Western-backed government and the opposition have repeatedly failed to agree a deal …

China is preparing for an eventual cross-strait showdown with Taiwan and may be prepared to use tactics that could stop the United States from getting involved, according to an analysis of publicly available information on China’s military by the RAND Corporation.
According RAND, China’s defenses, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), has identified the U.S. military’s reliance on information systems as “a significant vulnerability that, if successfully exploited, could paralyze or degrade U.S. forces to such an extent that victory could be achieved” against Taiwan.
The writings RAND analyzed were not official war …

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that “a new arms race has been unleashed in the world” as the United States moves forward with a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Russia will field new weapons in response, he said, dismissing American assurances that the missile system is not directed against Russia as nothing more than “diplomatic cover.”
“It’s not our fault. We didn’t start it … funneling multi-billions of dollars into developing weapons systems,” Putin declared in what may be his final major address before he leaves the Kremlin after presidential …

Like the Jedi Knights in Star Wars, much of Israel’s safety depends on an absurdly small number of daring pilots and their jet planes. The Israel Air Force has managed to use that capacity with amazing skill and daring, as it showed last September when a dozen fighter bombers and support aircraft jammed Syria’s Russian-supplied air defenses and destroyed a secret nuclear facility on the Euphrates river — not far from Iran.  The nature of that target has still not been revealed, but it must have been important enough to …

Nato must prepare to launch pre-emptive nuclear attacks to ward off the use of weapons of mass destruction by its enemies, a group of former senior military officials has warned.
Calling for a major change to Nato’s approach to defending its members and their interests, the authors of the report, which has been handed to Nato and Pentagon chiefs, said the first-strike use of nuclear weapons was a “indespensible instrument”.
According to a report, the authors of the blueprint for reforming Nato include Lord Peter Inge, the former British chief of the …

Iran has sped up efforts to develop long-range missiles, demonstrating the need for a proposed missile defense system in Europe, the head of the US missile defense program said Wednesday.
”They are developing missiles today in an accelerated pace,” Lt. Gen. Henry Obering said about Iran in remarks at the Czech Foreign Ministry. He said Iran was the third most active country in flight testing missiles last year, behind Russia and China.
”They’re developing ranges of missiles that go far beyond anything they would need in a regional fight, for example, with …

US President George Bush said that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the US and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger “before it’s too late”.
Mr Bush said Iran funds terrorist extremists, undermines stability in Lebanon, sends arms to the hard-line Taliban regime, intimidates its neighbours with alarming rhetoric and defies the United Nations by refusing to be open about its nuclear programme.
“Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror,” Mr Bush said in a speech about democracy that he delivered about midway …

Taiwan elections took an interesting turn as the opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, dealing a humiliating blow to the governments hardline China policies two months before a presidential poll.
President Chen Shui-bian, who has been criticized for aggravating relations with China by promoting policies to formalize Taiwans de facto independence, resigned as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party immediately after the extent of the defeat became clear.
“I should shoulder all responsibilities,” Chen said. “I feel really apologetic and shamed.”
Critics say Chens policies have allowed Taiwans …

An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. No shots were fired an an Iranian official in Tehran said the incident amounted to “something normal.”
Bush administration officials complained that the Iranian actions amounted to a dangerous provocation, but one private analyst said the Iranians may have believed they were acting defensively in a narrow …

North Korea said on Friday it had already accounted for its nuclear arms programme as required under an international disarmament deal an assertion quickly rejected by the United States, which urged Pyongyang to produce a declaration soon.
The United States and several allies said this week that North Korea had not met a December 31 deadline to provide a full inventory of its nuclear arms programmes, as it was obliged to by the deal it struck with regional powers earlier in the year.
Breaking days of silence on the missed deadline, the …