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Istanbul - A Turkish court on Friday ordered the immediate release of ex-military chief Ilker Basbug who was sentenced to life in prison last year for plotting to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government, his lawyer said.The decision came a day after Turkey's top ...

Istanbul - Turkey's constitutional court ruled Thursday that the legal rights of a former army chief jailed over an alleged coup plot had been violated, a decision that paves the way for his release.The country's top court argued that a local tribunal had not "ef...

Juba - Five soldiers died when heavy fighting broke out in the main military barracks in war-torn South Sudan's capital Juba, underscoring serious tensions within the national army as it battles a rebel uprising.Fierce gunfire lasting two hours was heard comi...

Jerusalem - Israel's army said Wednesday it struck two members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as they tried to plant a bomb near the Israeli-Syrian border."Earlier today, two Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists were identified attempting to plant an explosiv...

Kiev - Ukraine has placed its army on full combat alert, but with ageing equipment and limited personnel, it has remained cautiously defensive in the face of an incursion by Russian forces.Since the Russian parliament gave the green light on Saturday for its ...

Srinagar - A soldier in Indian Kashmir shot dead five of his colleagues in a military camp before turning the gun on himself, an army spokesman told AFP on Thursday."The soldier ran amok, killing five others before shooting himself dead in the camp in Ganderbal d...

Beirut - Lebanon's army says it is "paying the price in blood" in the fight against "terrorism", after a suicide car bombing killed two soldiers and a civilian.Shiite movement Hezbollah also condemned Saturday's attack, calling the perpetrators "the enemy of al...

Elk Grove - A local firefighter received a hero's welcome home Monday Feb. 17, after a year's deployment in Afghanistan as a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant.

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Kampala - The wanted deputy of Uganda's murderous Lord's Resistance Army rebels, Okot Odhiambo, may have been killed in recent fighting, the Ugandan defence minister told AFP.Odhiambo was indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2005 alo...