A cheering crowd of sailors on board the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt bid farewell to their captain as he disembarked the ship Friday, video footage circulating on social media showed, one day after the commander was removed by the Navy for alerting his superiors about the virus outbreak on the vessel.
2020-04-05 01:06Democratic presidential front runner Joe Biden called Thursday for the United States to ease sanctions on Iran to reduce suffering as the Islamic republic reels from the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-04-03 23:29The spread of the novel coronavirus has fueled concerns in the United Nations over continuing conflicts in the Middle East.
2020-04-03 17:03Guam Governor Leon Guerrero said Thursday that she decided to allow sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt to leave the military base and be quarantined in hotels on the island after the Navy asked for help to deal with the spread of COVID-19 on the aircraft carrier.
2020-04-02 18:17The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two short-range unidentified projectiles into the eastern waters on Sunday, according to the Republic of Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
2020-03-29 23:35Declaring a war against "an invisible enemy," President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced an army operation "Resilience" to back the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and support the population.
2020-03-26 17:50Armed militants including suicide bombers attacked a temple in Afghanistan's Kabul on Wednesday with casualties feared, a spokesman for Interior Ministry Tareq Arian said.
2020-03-25 17:09The Iraqi Presidency on Friday condemned overnight U.S. airstrikes on military bases housing paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces.
2020-03-14 23:08At least two Algerian soldiers were killed in an improvised explosive device blast in Chlef, a province 200 km west of capital Algiers, the defense ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
2020-03-09 02:39Israel's army said that it started on Tuesday a large-scale military drill with the United States, simulating a missile attack on Israel.
2020-03-04 01:28Turkish forces renewed drone attacks on Syrian forces' positions in the northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, killing 26 Syrian soldiers, according to a war monitor.
2020-03-02 01:09South Korea and the United States decided on Thursday to postpone their joint springtime military drills on worries about the soaring COVID-19 cases in the past week.
2020-02-27 13:32The Sri Lanka army on Monday said it had deployed the military police at all entry and exit points of capital Colombo, to assist the police in easing traffic congestion in the city.
2020-02-25 09:36Rockets struck near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad early on Sunday, with no immediate word on casualties and the extent of damage, local media reported.
2020-02-16 14:47The Trump administration on Friday expressed optimism about a possible peace deal with the Taliban that could lead to gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops after over-18-year war in Afghanistan.
2020-02-14 15:00At least six people, including an assailant, were killed and 12 others wounded after a suicide bomb explosion struck outside a military university in western side of Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, Afghan Ministry of Interior confirmed.
2020-02-12 11:05Israel was boosting its forces in the occupied West Bank on Thursday evening, as violence has flared up between Israel and Palestine following Washington's controversial Mideast peace plan.
2020-02-07 09:32The Syrian army seems determined to capture rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces in northern Syria, with two official statements released Saturday regarding such intention.
2020-01-26 16:45Colombian President Ivan Duque on Monday officially opened the third Hemispheric Ministerial Conference for the Fight Against Terrorism, which was held at a police academy in the capital Bogota.
2020-01-21 08:31The top UN envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, on Thursday breathed a sigh of relief over the fact that Yemen emerged from the recent Gulf crisis unscathed.
2020-01-17 08:18The Syrian air defense forces responded to an "aggression" targeting the T-4 air base in the central province of Homs on Tuesday, state news agency SANA reported.
2020-01-15 08:45A total of 1,123 new cadets have graduated from a commando school and joined the Afghan national army, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
2020-01-14 18:42The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Sunday that two U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan on Saturday.
2020-01-13 08:22The Afghan Air Force destroyed a helicopter after the chopper made a crash landing in the country's eastern Paktika province on Thursday night, the country's Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday.
2020-01-10 15:38U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Tuesday that persuasive intelligence report shows the threat posed by Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was "a matter of days," in an effort to justify the U.S. airstrike that killed him.
2020-01-08 08:31The Swedish Armed Forces will remain in Iraq and there are currently no plans for the 70 Swedish soldiers and officers to leave the country, Swedish Television (SVT) reported on Monday.
2020-01-07 08:30The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it has filed a complaint against the U.S. government to the United Nations Security Council over U.S. airstrikes against the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces in western Iraq and near Baghdad airport that killed an Iranian commander and a commander of Hashd Shaabi.
2020-01-06 08:17A Sudanese military plane crashed on Thursday shortly after taking off from El Geneina airport in West Darfur State, killing 18, said the army.
2020-01-03 16:39UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to not resume the nuclear and missile tests, said his spokesman.
2020-01-02 08:45The United States has carried out airstrikes against a militant pro-Iran group in Iraq, killing more than 20 fighters, two days after a rocket attack on an Iraqi base led to the death of a US civilian contractor.
2020-01-01 00:55The Iranian navy commander said on Sunday that U.S. navy forces should leave regional waters, Tasnim news agency reported.
2019-12-30 00:18Russia will start preliminary tests of its latest S-500 Prometheus air defense system in 2020, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said Saturday.
2019-12-29 00:52Pakistan's army said on Thursday that two soldiers were killed in Indian forces' firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region.
2019-12-26 22:22Russia is ready to work on new arms control agreements but in the meantime will continue to strengthen its nuclear forces, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
2019-12-25 00:53The Syrian army Saturday continued its operation against rebel-held areas in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, the state news agency SANA reported.
2019-12-22 00:36The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said Wednesday that it has wiped out one of terror group Boko Haram's camp in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.
2019-12-19 00:51Airstrikes by the Nigerian military have hit a meeting venue of terror group Boko Haram, killing an unknown number the militants on the fringes of Lake Chad in the northeastern state of Borno.
2019-12-17 01:50Military and police personnel undertaking a military operation in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province hunted down IS-affiliated militants who shot a policeman dead in an attack a day ago, provincial police spokesman Didik Supranoto said on Saturday.
2019-12-15 00:19Moscow is concerned about the test conducted by the United States of a missile previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Friday.
2019-12-14 00:32A Senior British official confirmed on Wednesday that his country will maintain its military support for Lebanon, Lebanon Presidency's website reported.
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