Manila, Dec 11 (DPA) Two soldiers were killed in an attack by communist rebels in an eastern Philippine province, a regional army spokesperson said Friday.
Lieutenant Colonel Armand Rico said the soldiers were constructing school buildings in Calbiga town in Samar province, 555 km southeast of Manila, when the guerrillas attacked them Thursday.
Rico said more troops [...]
Hanoi, Dec 3 (DPA) Authorities have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of at least 25 Vietnamese soldiers killed in combat 41 years ago, an official said Thursday.
‘They belonged to a commando company killed in 1968 while trying to liberate Quang Ngai prison,’ said Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trong Luyen, commander of the military forces [...]
Shariff Aguak (Philippines), Nov 29 (DPA) Thousands of people Sunday rallied in support of a prominent political family in the southern Philippines accused of masterminding the massacre of 57 people allegedly committed out of political rivalry.
About 3,000 demonstrators gathered outside the residences of the Ampatuan family in Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao province, 930 km [...]
Manila, Nov 23 (DPA) Twenty-one people, including journalists, were killed Monday in an outbreak of political violence in the southern Philippines, the military said.
Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner, a military spokesman, said troops recovered the bodies in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao province, 930 km south of Manila.
Brawner said 13 of the victims were women and eight [...]
Dhaka, Nov 22 (IANS) Bangladesh is to begin Tuesday the trial of over 3,500 border guards who staged a mutiny in February killing 74 people. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised to fast-track the process.
‘I promise, if I live, I’ll see the trial completed,’ Hasina said at a special programme in Dhaka Cantonment to mark [...]
Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) One militant was killed and another terrorist, who was trained in Pakistan, was arrested as the army foiled yet another infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, an army spokesman said here Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar, spokesman of the army’s 15th corps, said: ‘Terrorists made yet [...]
Dhaka, Nov 16 (IANS) The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) has set up six special courts – two in Dhaka and four outside the capital – to try hundreds of mutineers who killed 74 people in February.
BDR chief director general, Brig. Mohammed Mainul Islam, will chair the three-member courts being constituted under the Bangladesh Rifles Order 1972, [...]
London, Nov. 16 (ANI): The first batch of RAF helicopters has arrived in Afghanistan for British troops stationed there.
The RAF Merlin helicopters have been dispatched to address the acute shortage of aircrafts that was being blamed for the rising toll of deaths and injuries to British soldiers.
Dispatched from RAF Benson in [...]
London, Nov. 16 (ANI): In a bid gather public support for the Afghanistan war, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to assert the deployment of British troops in that war-torn country has helped to disable Al-Qaeda this year.
“I vigorously defend our action in Afghanistan and Pakistan because al-Qaeda is today the biggest source [...]
Tel Aviv, Nov 5 (DPA) Israeli naval commandoes Wednesday seized a cargo ship smuggling weapons from Iran to the Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon, the military said.
The Antigua-flagged, German-owned Francop was stopped some 160 km off the Israeli coast before dawn, military spokeswoman Lieutenant-Colonel Avital Leibowitz told DPA.
After the ship was redirected to the southern [...]
Srinagar, Oct 20 (ANI): There is no proposal to cut a troops in Kashmir, an army spokesperson said here on Monday.
The development comes after reports that government was considering reduction of army from the restive region following an overall drop in rebel attacks.
“See troops have not been withdrawn from anywhere. There is a constant review [...]
Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) The Taliban, which has staged two audacious attacks in Pakistan in five days, has said it will turn its guns on India after turning this country into an Islamic state.
‘We want an Islamic state. If we get that (in Pakistan), the we will go to the borders of India,’ TV footage [...]
Rawalpindi, Oct 16 (IANS) In a stinging rebuff, the Pakistani military ignored Interior Minister Rehman Malik when he visited its General Headquarters here to pay homage to officers and soldiers who were killed when militants besieged the complex over the weekend.
The minister faced an ‘embarrassing situation’ Wednesday when he was not allowed to enter the [...]
Peshawar, Oct 16 (IANS) Ten people were killed and 11 injured when a suicide bomber exploded close to a police station in Pakistan’s Peshawar city Friday, the second terror attack here in as many days.
An official said that 10 people were killed in the afternoon explosion at the Cantonment Area and that two of the [...]
Islamabad, Oct 13 (DPA) The Pakistan Army has become a tool in the hands of the ‘crusaders’ to save American and NATO troops from certain defeat in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda’s second-in-command said in a new video message Tuesday.
‘At this moment Pakistani forces are playing the central role in this crusade that has been imposed on [...]
Manila, Sep 27 (DPA) At least 80 people were killed as tropical storm Ketsana battered a wide area in the Philippines, resulting in record rainfall on the capital that caused the worst flooding in 40 years, officials said Sunday.
At least 21 people were missing in floods and landslides, according to Defence Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, who [...]
Manila, Sep 25 (DPA) Ten communist rebels were killed Friday in two clashes with government troops in the eastern Philippines, a regional army spokesman said.
Nine guerillas died in fighting in a remote village in Pilar town in Sorsogon province, 345 km southeast of Manila, Lieutenant Colonel Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos said.
Burgos said troops recovered eight assault [...]
Islamabad, Sep 16 (DPA) Pakistani security forces Wednesday arrested a senior militant leader in the north-western Swat valley, where troops are hunting Taliban remnants.
Sher Mohammad Qasab, Taliban commander in the region’s Charbagh sub-district, was seized after he was wounded in a search operation, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Akhtar Abbas said.
Qasab, whose name was on the [...]
Amritsar, Aug. 16 (ANI): Dressed in white, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Varun Gandhi paid obeisance at the Golden Temple here on Sunday.
Recalling his childhood, Varun reminiscenced how he once visited the Golden Temple along with his mother (Maneka Gandhi) [...]
London, Aug. 9 (ANI): A British soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment, was killed by an explosion in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, taking the death toll in Afghanistan since 2001 to 196.
According to reports, the soldier was on foot patrol at the [...]
