A Pakistan minister on Tuesday issued a threat to all the nations who are in support of India's stand for Kashmir, saying that they will be hit by a missile and considered enemy of Islamabad.

Breaking news from the US confirms that the government has announced a new missile defence policy targeted at addressing the challenges posed by Russia and China, which seeks to displace America in the Indo-Pacific region and has adopted a forceful posture in disputes over territorial boundaries with its neighbours.

China has successfully tested the sophisticated S-400 air defence system bought from Russia, a missile for which India struck a deal with Kremlin risking the US sanctions.

The Syrian air defences were triggered on Tuesday evening to a heavy Israeli missile attack that targeted areas in the countryside of the capital Damascus, media reported.

India on Tuesday successfully conducted the night trial of the indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile off the Odisha coast.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that India's planned purchase of a Russian missile system or its relations with Iran will not be "the primary focus" of the "incredibly important" 2+2 Strategic Dialogue meeting he and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis will be having with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Seetharaman this week.

The Saudi-led coalition involved in a war in Yemen confirmed on Sunday the interception of a ballistic missile fired by Houthi militias toward the border city of Jazan, Al Arabiya news reported.

The Russian military has successfully test-fired a new interceptor missile at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. According to previous Russian Defence Ministry reports, the new missile was successfully tested at the Sary-Shagan test site in February, April and July 2018. The new missile, which can reach a speed of 4 km per second, has no equal in the world, Sputnik news quoted the Ministry's official newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda as saying.

The Iranian Ministry of Defense on Monday unveiled its latest short-range ballistic missile, which has been successfully tested, in spite of Washington's demands that it halts all ballistic missile programmes.

In an attempt to destroy any incoming hostile ballistic missile, India on August 2, successfully test-fired the indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, from a test range off Odisha coast.