Army News
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday showed off his marksmanship by testing out a new Kalashnikov sniper rifle and hitting the target more than half the time.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Poland might not yet be ready for a permanent US military base, the head of the US Army said Wednesday, the day after Polish President Andrzej Duda offered to host "Fort Trump.
|
|
By AFP
Slavyanka -
Russian troops taking part in the country's largest-ever war games on Saturday held drills in the Sea of Japan, despite Tokyo's concerns about a Russian military buildup in the area.
|
|
By AFP
Olovyannaya -
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday visited Russia's largest-ever military drills in eastern Siberia, where he said Moscow planned to strengthen the country's armed forces.
|
|
By AFP
Chita -
Russia showcased its most sophisticated air defence system on Wednesday, using it to repel a mock attack from the sky as part of what it describes as its largest-ever military drills.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia on Tuesday will launch the biggest military drills in its history involving 300,000 troops as well as Chinese soldiers, in a move NATO denounced as "exercising large-scale conflict".
|
|
By AFP
Buenos Aires -
A US vessel will begin a new search for the missing Argentine submarine that disappeared last year with 44 crew members on board, the ministry of defense said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Baghdad -
Senior Iraqi military commanders hosted their Russian, Iranian and Syrian counterparts in Baghdad on Saturday to discuss security cooperation and information-sharing in the Middle East, where the Islamic State group continues to carry out attacks.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since at least the 1980s, with around 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence minister said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Mexico -
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday he would continue deploying the army to fight crime, a controversial strategy that has shattered powerful drug cartels but has been accompanied by an explosion of violence.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Colombia issued a strong protest Tuesday over what it said was a border incursion by Venezuelan helicopters and troops over the weekend.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
The US government on Friday hit four Myanmar military commanders and two military units with punitive sanctions, accusing them of "serious human rights abuses" and "ethnic cleansing" in violently expelling minority Rohingya from their homes.
|
|
By AFP
Gambela -
By the time Baba John escaped the tribal militia he had joined as an 11-year-old, he had long stopped counting the number of people he had killed."I shot people. We all did," said Baba John.
|
|
By AFP
Thessalon -
Greece on Wednesday hailed a "day of joy" as two Greek soldiers held in a Turkish prison for more than five months on espionage charges were released in a surprise move by Ankara."This is a day of joy...
|
|
By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuela has arrested a general and a colonel as part of a probe into an alleged attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Luanda -
An Angolan army sergeant was jailed for 18 years on Tuesday for shooting dead a 14-year-old boy at a protest two years ago, in a sentence welcomed by rights groups.
|
|
By AFP
Caracas -
A Venezuelan general has been arrested over the alleged assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Touting military cooperation and "instructors," arms deals and investment, Russia is making a comeback in Africa after years of inactivity and now aims to rival European countries and even China, analysts say.
|
|
By AFP
A Palestinian family called for answers Thursday as to why an Israeli air strike hit their relatives' home in the Gaza Strip, killing a pregnant mother and her 18-month-old daughter.
|
|
By AFP
Prague -
The bodies of three Czech soldiers killed in a suicide bombing claimed by the Taliban in Afghanistan were on Wednesday returned home.
|
|
By AFP
Caracas -
Six people have been arrested, accused of "terrorism" and attempting to assassinate Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro with explosive-laden drones. Here is a look at how the alleged attack unfolded.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
UN peacekeepers have carried out a first patrol since 2014 to a key crossing point between the Syrian and Israeli-controlled Golan Heights after liaising with Russia, Israel and Syria, a UN spokesman said Friday.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Moscow on Friday said its military members are in the Central African Republic only to train local forces after three Russian journalists were killed in the strife-torn country.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia on Thursday said no sign of torture was found on the bodies of three Russian journalists killed during a reporting trip in the Central African Republic this week.
|
|
By AFP
Damascus -
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told his troops on Wednesday they were close to winning the country's seven-year civil war after inflicting a succession of defeats on rebels.
|
|
By AFP
-
As a young officer in an elite unit of Israel's army, with its motto that no mission is impossible, Idan Peretz knew there had to be a better way to send rescue ropes across rivers.
|
|
By AFP
S -
On June 29, a suicide attack shook the headquarters of the Sahel's five-nation anti-terror force, failing to inflict major damage but exposing the fragility of the much-trumpeted scheme.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
The Israeli army on Thursday revealed details of a new tank it was developing, designed more for use in guerrilla warfare conditions.
|
|
By AFP
Yaound -
Four Cameroonian soldiers have been arrested after a video apparently showing three of them summarily executing two women and their two children accused of belonging to Boko Haram, sources close to the army said Thursday.
|
|
Country singer-songwriter Matt Williams epitomizes the best that modern country music has to offer. He delivers on his song "Southern Man."
|
apis-376955 apis-376949 apis-376548 apis-376357 apis-376282 apis-376026 apis-375757 apis-375286 apis-374966 apis-374700 apis-374380 apis-374066 apis-374022 apis-373880 apis-373855 apis-373831 apis-373824 apis-373768 apis-373424 apis-373333 apis-373109 apis-372918 apis-372879 apis-372775 apis-372656 apis-371829 apis-371725 apis-371671 apis-371664 apis-371472
Army Image
The APX is Beretta's first striker-fired semi-automatic service pistol, introduced at the IDEX expo in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, S.p.A
Israeli soldiers in the co-ed Karakal combat unit on their final hike of basic training.
Two Afghan children look at a U.S. Army photographer in June, 2010 U.S. Army photo by Spc. Eric Cabral
U.S. Soldiers conduct a patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers to check on conditions in a village in the Wardak province of Afghanistan US Department of Defense
U.S. Army Soldiers with 2nd Platoon, Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment prepare for a early morning mission out of Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq expertinfantry
The SA Army Band provided music for the memorial service.
Members of the media and the army at the media breakfast.
_(2).jpg)
A crowd began to gather just before the parade began to honor Staff Sergeant Michael Ferguson.
_1.jpg)
American flags were everywhere along the parade route.
.jpg)
Elk Grove High School's drill team rounds the corner at the start of the parade.
President Barack Obama visits with a platoon of U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan that recently lost six members, Dec. 3, 2010. The President made an overnight trip to visit troops in Afghanistan. Pete Souza / White House
Israeli soldiers march next to an army deployment area near the border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on July 25, 2014 Gil Cohen-Magen, AFP
The number of US deaths in the Afghanistan war has set a new annual record of at least 323, with four months remaining in the year. The number surpasses the previous record of 317 for all of 2009. U.S. Army
.jpg)
United States Army soldiers in training. Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod - United States Army
Joint airdrop resupplies Afghanistan outpost. Spc. Eric-James Estrada, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division
_1.jpg)
Mrs. Ferguson is handed a bouquet of flowers to symbolize the neighborhood support for her family's sacrifice.
Israeli soldiers in the co-ed Karakal combat unit on their final hike of basic training.
![Col. Todd Wood gives Gen. Keith Alexander [right] Director of the National Security Agency a tour ...](/img/8/9/9/i/1/5/0/p-large/keithalexander.jpg)
Col. Todd Wood gives Gen. Keith Alexander [right], Director of the National Security Agency, a tour of the Forward Operating Base Masum Ghar in southern Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Arctic Wolves
A Ugandan Army helicopter hunts for LRA members in Central African Republic. Wikipedia
|
|
