3 missing US soldiers found dead in Lithuania, search continues for 4th soldier The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the soldiers were in when they went missing was removed from a swamp early Monday morning
Elsewhere in Africa, the U.S. military is relying on private contractors to provide and operate PC-12 spy planes in the search for Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a group known for mutilating victims, committing mass rape and enslaving children as soldiers. Ham, th...
The locations hit were those in Yemen involved in the campaign targeting shipping in the southern Red Sea and the Bab al Mandab, the MoD said. “The Houthis’ attacks on commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea are illegal and unacceptable and it is our duty to protect innocent...
United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted home rule on the road to...
"Al Qaeda senior leaders have called for increased pressure in Yemen, and their northern territory is not under central government control," a senior U.S. military official told The Associated Press Wednesday, on condition his name not be used to discuss sensitive foreign policy issues. ...
“We had a tough day last night in the Middle East. We lost three brave souls in an attack on one of our bases,” he said. After the moment of silence, Biden added, “and we shall respond.” With an increasing risk of military escalation in the region, U.S. officials were working...
reader would immediately ask:“What Russian invasions?”After all, the only time Russia initiated a military operation against a sovereign state was in August 2008 after Georgian forces invaded Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia, killing 12 Russian peacekeepers that had been stationed there. ...
Unit (the predecessor of the CIA) stationed there tospyon the Soviet Union. The first CIA officer killed in the line of duty was fleeing his post in Xinjiang when slain by Tibetan guards who mistook him for a Khazak. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has renewed US interest in the ...
In reality, it is not the first deployment of that kind since the withdrawal of American troops stationed in the kingdom during both Iraq Wars (1991 and 2003). According to the Pentagon’s official figures, 527 American soldiers and civilians were already stationed in Saudi Arabia by the end...
Warplanes, artillery, and shelling from warships stationed off of Yemen’s Red Sea shores have turned parts of Hodeidah into veritable hellscapes, including strategic directorates in the southern province, just weeks after the Saudi Coalitionannounced it would be withdrawingmilitary forces from the are...