The Defense Department today announced new standards for cluster bombs to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure from the unintended consequences of unexploded munitions. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates signed the policy that aims to reduce collateral effects of cluster munitions
Commander of IRGC Airforce Brigadier General Hossein Salami said on Wednesday that the IRGC missiles have been loaded on launching pads and are ready to target enemies at any time. As per the IRNA report, IRGC's Public Relations Office, the
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has ordered 35 additional DRAC (Drone de Renseignement Au Contact) mini-UAV close-range reconnaissance systems for the French Armed Forces from EADS Defence & Security (DS).The new orders were notified on 30 June, after delivering
The General Delegation for Armaments (DGA) has on 1 July 2008, qualified Rafale standard "F3 . The first aircraft produced in standard F3 will be delivered to forces from early 2009. The aircrafts already in service will be upgraded to
The Vanguard class submarine HMS Victorious has left Plymouth today, Thursday 10 July 2008, after completing her three and a half year multi-million pound overhaul at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Victorious is heading to Scotland for sea trials that mark the
Two weeks before the suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 41 people, Indian intelligence agencies had alerted Afghan authorities of the possibility of such an attack by the Taliban.
At least 2 people have been killed and 2 more others wounded after heavy rocked a residential area in Garowe the provincial capital of Puntland region, north-eastern Somalia Thursday morning according to eyewitnesses.
According Ogadenian [Radio Freedom] who Aires the reports from southeastern Ethiopia] at least 33 Ethiopian soldiers have been killed and 36 others have been wounded in the latest battles between ONLA [Ogaden National Liberation Army] and the troops.
Only a month ago, he was entrusted to bringing home the body of a colleague, slain in Sudan's volatile Darfur region. Little did he know that a few days after his return, he would suffer the same fate.
PROGRESSIVE Africans and all Zimbabweans agree that there has been enough political bickering over the past eight years and it is time Zimbabweans sat down to talk over their differences.
Movement for the Return of Peace to Rivers State, yesterday said except leaders come together and work for peace, it might be difficult to achieve peace in the state.
Is the pen mightier than the panga? This was the question confronting Kenya's literary establishment in the opening days of 2008, as war spread throughout Kenya's urban centers and across the fertile Rift Valley in the nation's heartland. As belligerent
he incessant killings of innocent people and other criminal-related activities in the country have ignited fears amongst the population with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf describing the situation as 'bad state of affairs'.
The following is the text of a memorandum sent yesterday by Omer Ismail and John Prendergast of the ENOUGH Project and Jerry Fowler of the Save Darfur Coalition to UN/AU Joint Mediator for Darfur Djibril Bassolé:
Millions of civilians were displaced during more than two decades of civil war in Sudan. Now, three years after the North and South signed a peace accord, many are returning home, including tens of thousands of Southern Sudanese who had
Adan Malin Omar, 78, who fought for Somalia's independence from Italy in the 1950s, survived the 16-year civil war and did not leave his home in the Abdiaziz district of north Mogadishu, even at the height of the violence.
About 25,000 firearms were surrendered to the National Police throughout the country from March to June this year, as part of the programme of volunteer disarming of civilians in illegal possession of weapons, Angop learned.
British Prime Minister, Mr. Gordon Brown, yesterday declared his country's readiness to join forces with Nigeria to combat increasing militant attacks in the Niger Delta.
