Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Stockholm ended two centuries of military neutrality by joining NATO.

The United States has suspended plans to sanction China’s Ministry of State Security over a large-scale cyber espionage campaign, in order to maintain a trade truce agreed earlier this year, News.Az reports, citing the Financial Times.

A senior army general was tapped as Pakistan's new spy chief, state-run media reported on Monday, News.Az reports citing ABC news .

Israel's Mossad spy agency embedded explosives in 5,000 pagers imported by the Lebanese group Hezbollah months prior to Tuesday's explosions, a senior Lebanese security source said, News.az reports.

The Pakistani government has allowed the country’s premier spy agency to intercept and trace calls and messages through any telecommunication system in the “interest of national security,” said an official notification, News.Az reports citing foreign media.