- Russia might make ICBM submersible
- Air Power Australia and Low-Observability
- Regional implications of PKK's truce with Turkey
- Tactical Nuclear weapons - still relevant?
- Why USA Is Worried of Syrian Air Defenses?
- New Radar for Special Forces
- Future of the Global Hawk
- NATO Lock shields event
- Light infantry
- China is a cemetery of the abandoned chemical weapons
Latest Military Pictures
Defense Forum Topics
Post Tagged with: "rebels"
Austria warns against arms shipments to Syrian rebels
Austria has warned its 26 European Union partners in a letter against providing weapons for rebel movements in the Syrian conflict, said a press report to be published Tuesday. The foreign ministry in Vienna confirmed late Monday that a document had been handed over to the European Union in Brussels, but did not give details. [...]
Turkey awaits ‘historic’ ceasefire call by Kurdish rebel chief
Jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan was set to call a “historic” ceasefire on Thursday, raising expectations for an end to a three-decade conflict with Turkey that has cost tens of thousands of lives. The widely anticipated ceasefire call is to come in a letter penned by the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party [...]
Iranian Ammunition Surfaces In African Conflicts
For years, unmarked ammunition has been turning up in some of Africa’s bloodiest conflict zones — Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ivory Coast. After a six-year investigation, independent arms investigators with Britain-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR) say they have figured out where the ammunition is being made: Iran. According to their December 2012 [...]
Colombia’s FARC rebels end ceasefire
Colombia’s FARC rebels announced Sunday the end of a two-month unilateral ceasefire declared in November at the outset of talks in Cuba aimed at ending Latin America’s longest-running insurgency. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had said they were willing to extend the ceasefire, due to expire at midnight on Sunday (0500 GMT Monday), [...]
Syria rebels use new arms to down chopper
Syrian rebels downed an army helicopter for the first time Tuesday with a ground-to-air missile from newly acquired stocks in what a watchdog said could be a turning point in the 20-month conflict. Meanwhile Russia, which has blocked UN resolutions critical of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, said it only has a “working relationship” with the Syrian [...]
NATO backs Turkey but unlikely to do more over Syria
While Western powers quickly backed Ankara after deadly Syrian fire on a Turkish border village, it is unlikely its NATO partners, above all the United States, would opt for a military response, analysts said. The incidents, with Turkish forces retaliating in kind, are serious but not enough on their own to justify intervention given the [...]
Turkey Attacks Syria Targets After Deadly Mortar Attack
Turkey says its military has attacked targets inside neighboring Syria after mortar fire from Syria struck inside Turkey and killed five Turkish civilians. A statement from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said Turkish forces had targeted “places in Syria identified by radar.” Earlier on October 3, a mother and four children were reported killed [...]
30 dead as Kurdish rebels clash with Turkish forces
Kurdish rebels wielding rocket launchers and machine-guns attacked a security base in southeast Turkey, triggering a firefight that left 30 people dead, local officials said Monday. Ten soldiers were killed and seven wounded in the attack in the province of Sirnak, the local government said, while other sources said about 20 members of the outlawed [...]
Syria rebels ‘aided by British intelligence’
British intelligence on Syrian troop movements is helping rebels launch successful attacks on regime forces, a Sunday newspaper reported, quoting an opposition official. The Sunday Times weekly said the disclosure by the official was the first indication that British intelligence was playing a covert role in the anti-regime revolt which first erupted in March 2011. [...]
