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Airstrikes, artillery shelling on Sudan-South Sudan border
Sudan on Tuesday carried out new airstrikes inside South Sudan, as rival armies exchanged artillery fire in the latest round of fierce fighting in contested border regions. An AFP correspondent in the South Sudanese frontline village of Tashwin heard heavy artillery shelling and multiple airstrikes lasting for around an hour, with one bomb dropped by [...]
US keeps carriers near Gulf ahead of Iran talks
The United States is keeping the pressure on Iran with the presence of two aircraft carriers close to the Gulf ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks with Tehran this week. “There are currently two carrier strike groups in the US 5th Fleet area of operations,” Lieutenant Commander John Fage, a navy spokesman, said Monday. [...]
No sign of peace as Syria troop withdrawal deadline dawns
Syria faced a deadline Tuesday to withdraw its forces from urban areas as Washington said Damascus had shown no sign of complying with a peace deal amid fierce clashes that killed more than 100. Fighting spilled over into neighbouring countries as the peace accord brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan hung by [...]
Army upgrading Unmanned Aerial Systems
The U.S. Army is moving along with a series of upgrades and technological improvements to its Unmanned Aerial System platforms, or UAS, Program Office officials said April 3. The UAS improvements are part of a broader effort to bring increased sensing and surveillance capability to deployed forces, officials said at the Army Aviation Association of [...]
UK Type 45 Air Defense Destroyer Heads for Falklands
One of the Royal Navy’s newest and most powerful warships is to set sail for the Falkland Islands a day before the 30th anniversary of the British task force setting sail for war. HMS Dauntless, the second of the Navy’s hi-tech Type 45 air defence destroyers, will leave its home port of Portsmouth Naval Base [...]
NATO denies accelerating Afghanistan troop withdrawal
NATO’s chief denied on Monday that the alliance was speeding up the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan as he sought to clear up “confusion” over the pullout planned for the end of 2014. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted that NATO was sticking to the timeline agreed at the Lisbon summit in November 2010 [...]
Thirty years on, Falklands conflict still festers
Thirty years ago a remote South Atlantic island chain was thrust into the global glare as Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, triggering a bitter conflict which rankles to this day. Three decades later, the windswept archipelago remains at the centre of an ugly dispute pitting London and Buenos Aires, as political [...]
US, Pakistani Officials Discuss Military Relationship
Senior U.S. officers met today with their Pakistani counterparts in Islamabad, Pakistan, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, and Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, met with Pakistani officials, including Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, [...]
Last Iraq MRAP loaded for transport to 1st CAV museum
More than 30 Soldiers, Sailors and civilians gathered at the Port of Ash Shuaiba, March 24, to observe the last mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, to exit Iraq being loaded aboard a ship for transport back to the United States. The Caiman Plus MRAP vehicle, which exited Iraq at Khabari Crossing, Dec. 18, 2011, with [...]
