Russia’s defence ministry has announced suspension of military cooperation with Turkey and Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister, has cancelled a planned trip to Turkey following the downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday. The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplane was shot down for violating Turkish airspace, angering Russia’s[…]
Israel and Russia have agreed to coordinate military actions over Syria in order to avoid accidentally trading fire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Moscow. Recent Russian reinforcements for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which regional sources say include warplanes and anti-aircraft systems, worry Israel, whose jets have[…]
Dressed in military fatigues, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday for the first time since Sinai-based militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group killed 21 Egyptian soldiers, according to official sources. Sisi’s visit was carried out under heavy security and with the utmost discretion.[…]
Brigadier Ammar Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, the nephew of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, has been dismissed by presidential decree from his role as a military attache in Ethiopia. Thursday’s announcement came on the same day that former al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) informant Hani Muhammad Mujahid told Al[…]
Human Rights group Amnesty International has released a damning report highlighting immense levels of human rights abuse on the part of the Nigerian military, allegedly committed during its resistance against a six-year long Boko Haram insurgency. The report sheds light on more than 8000 civilian causalities attributed to the country’s[…]
Syrian insurgents captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria on Sunday, activists said. The Idlib Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the helicopter went down near Jabal al-Zawiya, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the town[…]
Japan told the world’s nations Thursday it will never give in to terrorism and will continue providing non-military assistance for the fight against the Islamic State and other extremist groups – but not military troops or equipment “at this point.” Japan sent Foreign Ministry Press Secretary Yasuhisa Kawamura to the[…]
The U.N. Security Council is urging nations in west and central Africa to step up regional military operations to counter Boko Haram and is welcoming a meeting in Cameroon to finalize plans for a 7,500-strong force to fight the extremists. Cameroon and Chad joined Nigeria in launching an air and[…]
Boko Haram has killed dozens of people during an attack on a village in Cameroon near the Nigerian border, Cameroonian defence authorities say. Cameroonian defense spokesman Didier Badjeck says it is not yet possible to determine the total number of victims. There are possibly up to 100 dead, a local[…]
Intense exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Indian border forces continued for a third day, officials said Friday, after three soldiers were killed on New Year’s Eve. Indian troops fired mortar shells and guns at Pakistani villages in Narowal district of central Punjab province, a military official said. Several hundred[…]
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