Leaders from the east African regional bloc, Intergovernmental Authority on Development or IGAD, have agreed to deploy troops to South Sudan by mid-April, to help enforce a ceasefire deal, between the government and opposition forces. United States Ambassador to South Sudan, Susan Page, told VOA...
During his visit, the Pentagon chief said that 560 more U.S. troops will be deployed in Iraq to help establish a newly retaken airbase of Qayyara, some 55 km south of Mosul, as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from the IS extremist militants. Once known ...
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the number of troops to be deployed at the border "will go up to anywhere between 10 and 15,000 military personnel." The comments followed a Pentagon announcement earlier this week that about 5,200 troops would be sent to the U.S.-Me...
President Trump signed a proclamation ordering National Guard troops to be deployed to the Mexican border. He says a "drastic surge of illegal activity" left his administration "no choice but to act." But it's still unclear what exactly those troops will do along the border when they get th...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend.
About 700 UK troops are being deployed to an RAF base in Cyprus in case the military needs to evacuate British citizens from Lebanon, where the situation is deteriorating. They join several hundred troops already stationed on the island, where the UK has maintained two armed forces bases for ...
NATO on Monday confirmed that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia to aid in its almost three-year war against Ukraine and that some have already been deployed in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Russia has been struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion. Worries about North...
South Korea's spy agency said last week that North Korea had shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia's Far East for training and acclimatising at military bases and that they were likely to be deployed for combat in Ukraine. "If true, this marks a dangerous and highly concer...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia's Far East for training and acclimatising at local military bases and will likely be deployed for combat in the war in Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency said on Friday. ...
WASHINGTON--The U.S. said Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are training at several locations, calling the move very serious and warning that those forces will be “fair game” if they go into combat in Ukraine.