In response to the Hindu state’s Operation Sindoor, which began on the night between the seventh and eighth of May 2025, the Pakistani forces’ Operation Bunyan al-Marsous - in which multiple aircraft of the Hindu state were shot down, its defense systems were paralyzed, a de facto no-fly zone was imposed over occupied Kashmir, and Pakistan humbled the Hindu state -

Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 598

On April 13, 2026, the US Secretary of Defense and the Indonesian Minister of Defense announced the establishment of the Major Defense Cooperation Partnership (MDCP) between the United States and Indonesia. Prior to this, a classified document from the US Department of Defense was leaked regarding the authorization of comprehensive overflights by US aircraft through Indonesian airspace.