Army News
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Kiev -
Ukraine on Thursday disbanded an army unit that lost six armoured vehicles to pro-Russian militants, as Kiev's military reeled from a disastrous attempt to oust separatists in its eastern regions.
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Kiev -
EU foreign ministers prepared to meet over the Crimea crisis in Athens Friday after Ukraine's Western-backed leaders blamed Russian agents and the country's ousted president for organising the bloodshed during February protests that claimed nearly 90 l...
In the Media
by Oleksandr SAVOCHENKO and Olga ROTENBERG in Moscow (AFP)
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Killeen -
US Army Specialist Ivan Lopez was taking antidepressants and being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder when he allegedly started shooting at Fort Hood, killing four including himself and wounding 16.
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Aden -
Al-Qaeda has claimed an attack on a Yemeni army headquarters in a tightly secured district of Aden in which 20 people died, most of them militants, a monitoring group said Thursday.
In the Media
by Fawaz al-Haidari (AFP)
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Aden -
Al-Qaeda militants launched a rocket and car bomb assault on an army headquarters in Yemen's southern city of Aden Wednesday in an assault that left 11 dead, including three attackers, officials said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Damascus -
Syrian troops killed 11 rebels as they fled the village of Al-Hosn, home to famed Crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers, for the nearby Lebanese border Thursday, a military source said."During the operations in the Al-Hosn area, armed men (rebels) tried ...
In the Media
by AFP
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Mogadishu -
A convoy of the African Union's AMISOM force was targeted by a car bomb just outside the Somali capital on Monday, witnesses and a Somali army source said, though it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.Contacted by AFP, a spokesman f...
In the Media
by AFP
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Cairo -
Egypt's interim government pledged "decisive" action and ordered heightened security on Sunday after gunmen killed six soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint, as the countdown began to presidential elections this spring.The shooting on Saturday morning came tw...
In the Media
by Samer al-Atrush (AFP)
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Cairo -
Gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint in Cairo Saturday, killing five Egyptian soldiers, state television reported.The attack comes two days after gunmen attacked a military bus in the capital, killing a soldier.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bras -
Brazil is planning to build its first aircraft carrier to replace its aging only model as part of a steady upgrade to its armed forces, Defense Minister Celso Amorim said Tuesday.In recent years Brazil has purchased submarines, helicopters and superson...
In the Media
by AFP
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Cpl. Anthony Gomez, field artillery tactical data systems specialist assigned to 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, currently attached to 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div., shakes the hand of a young resident of Tarok Kolache, April 1, while Pfc. Roy Heggernes interacts with a young boy during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new village mosque.
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Army Blogs
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Fraudster James McCormick was sentenced today to a pitifully low 10 years (due to UK sentencing, he will likely serve 5...
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Bangladesh army has said it has foiled a plot by some hardline officers to topple the Sheikh Hasina government and that...
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It's been a while since I posted a blog on DJ but I thought I'd give it a bash again considering my own blog site is...
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Part Two, Day Four 0430 local time. Getting up after two hours of sleep was extremely difficult, but the...
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