Israeli authorities are seeking 12 charges against Ahed Tamimi, a prominent 16-year-old Palestinian activist filmed slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. The teenager was detained on December 19, four days after the video showing her confronting the soldiers outside her family’s home in the village[…]
Nearly 10,000 US soldiers attempted to commit suicide between 2004 and 2009 according to a study by JAMA Psychiatry, a medical journal published by the American Medical Association. The high suicide rate amongst US soldiers was revealed in a study which looked at the risk of such attempts among soldiers[…]
An air strike during Philippine military operations to drive rebels out of a southern city has killed 10 government troops, the defense minister said on Thursday, in a major blow to efforts to defeat fighters linked to the Islamic State group. Seven other soldiers were wounded on Wednesday when two[…]
The director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, said Sunday that Israel had effectively taken over the holy site, after a day of violent clashes between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli police took place there. Kiswani told Ma’an that having brought the compound under occupation in 1967, “today, the[…]
Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to the country’s state news agency WAM. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other mostly Arab states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled[…]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man on Thursday after a suspected car attack which injured three Israeli soldiers, a Ma’an reporter said. Mohammed Badwan, a Palestinian from Biddu village east of Ramallah, allegedly ran over three Israeli soldiers on Route 60 near the illegal settlement of Shilo, north[…]
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and four others wounded in a car bomb attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, while Turkish aircraft continued bombing ISIL positions in neighbouring Syria and Kurdish fighters in Iraq. The blast struck a military vehicle passing through the town of Lice on Saturday[…]
Israeli soldiers seen on video beating an unarmed Palestinian received punishment Sunday ranging from confinement to base to a verbal rebuke, the army said. Footage of Friday’s incident, at Jalazoun refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, showed troops striking the Palestinian civilian with their fists and a rifle butt.[…]
While no armed soldiers were seen in the streets of the Alexandra on Tuesday night, one soldier said they were there. A soldier at the Alexandra police station was asked by journalists whether his colleagues were already on duty, following an announcement by Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula earlier on Tuesday[…]
There was no update on the condition of two SA National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers wounded in Sudan while on UN/African Union peacekeeping duties, the SANDF said on Sunday. “There is no new information at this point,” Captain Jaco Theunissen said. On Thursday, Theunissen said the two soldiers were wounded[…]
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