ANKARA: Kurdish rebels detonated an explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing at least seven soldiers on Thursday, officials said. Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack. The explosion…
A video telecast by the Indian media is showing soldiers of Pakistan and Indian armies dancing together to Bollywood songs in Russia. Both armies are currently present in Russia for SCO joint…
ANKARA: Turkish officials say four soldiers have been killed in violence in southeastern Turkey where troops are battling Kurdish rebels — three of them as a result of a friendly fire. Several…
HARARE: Zimbabwean security forces and unidentified gunmen have beaten and harassed dozens of people in a crackdown on the political opposition following a disputed election, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, while a…
SRINAGAR: Two pro-freedom militants and four Indian soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a gunbattle along the Line of Control (LoC) in Occupied Kashmir valley. According to Indian army spokesman Colonel Rajesh…
YAOUNDE: Cameroon has arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country’s far north where its army is battling jihadist group Boko Haram, two security sources…
ROME: Austria is offering to provide soldiers to the Balkans or North Africa to help control the flow of migrants into Europe. Defense Minister Mario Kunasek and Interior Minister Herbert Kickl told…
MANILA: Philippine soldiers mistakenly killed six police officers and wounded nine on Monday during an operation against Maoist guerrillas in thick jungle, an army general said. A platoon of soldiers was operating…
RAWALPINDI: A ceremony was held to honour the martyrs and soldiers of the Pakistan armed forces, the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday. Sixteen martyrs and 21 soldiers…
ATHENS: Greece said on Monday that Turkey appeared to be seeking some political leverage by continuing to hold two of its soldiers without trial for a month since they crossed a land…
AFRIN: Seven Turkish soldiers were killed Saturday in Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish militia inside Syria, including five who died in a single attack on a tank, the army said. The losses marked…
CALIFORNIA: A US Army Apache attack helicopter crashed early Saturday morning in California, killing two soldiers, a spokesman for the Army said. An investigation is ongoing into the crash of the AH-64…
YANGON: Myanmar’s military said its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim “terrorists” during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September after Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they…
WASHINGTON: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said he “respects every soldier” and is “proud of the Pakistan Army” for carrying out the anti-terror operation, Radd-ul-Fasaad. “I am proud that the Pakistan Army…
Zahir Jan, a scrap metal dealer in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, pays about 175 Afghani ($2.55) per kilo of spent cartridge casings and has no trouble finding supplies from poorly…
Suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen seized and executed 17 soldiers loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday, local officials and residents said. The soldiers were detained while travelling from…
Kurdish militants killed five members of Turkish security forces in three separate bomb attacks on Tuesday near the Syrian and Iranian borders, the army and security sources said, in an intensification of…
