Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes in the north
At least five Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish armed volunteers have been killed in clashes with the IS group in northern Iraq, as the government continues its offensive against the armed Sunni group,...
View ArticleOne Year After Leader’s Death, North Caucasus Insurgency Soldiers On
September 7 marks the first anniversary of the death from poisoning of Doku Umarov, the Chechen field commander who abandoned the cause of an independent Chechen Republic Ichkeria in 2007 and instead...
View ArticleThree Pakistani Soldiers Killed In Rocket Attack
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed when suspected Islamist militants fired rockets at their post in the country’s northwestern tribal region. Officials said at least two soldiers were also injured in...
View ArticleUkraine Says Cease-Fire In East Violated, Soldiers Injured
Kyiv says sporadic fighting has occurred between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement. Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said on...
View ArticleUkrainian Soldier’s Video Shows Intense Fighting Around Donetsk
Published 28 September 2014 Fighting has continued in the eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region despite the cease-fire declared on September 5. Ukrainian soldier Serhiy Tyshkevych of Ukraine’s 11th...
View ArticleFacing Militants With Supplies Dwindling, Iraqi Soldiers Took to Phones
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi unit, bunkered in a village in Anbar Province, had held the militants at bay for four days. But running perilously low on ammunition, food and water, the soldiers finally took...
View ArticleLibya suicide blasts leave 40 soldiers dead
A series of suicide bombings in Libya has left at least 40 soldiers dead, as opponents and supporters of a renegade ex-general clashed for control of a key air base in the port city of Benghazi. Al...
View ArticleLibyan soldiers killed in Benghazi clashes
At least 12 Libyan soldiers have been killed and 45 more wounded in fresh clashes with Islamist fighters near the airport of the eastern city of Benghazi, according to local sources. The city was quiet...
View ArticleThe ‘Astronaut’ Problem: Iraqi Soldiers Who Pay Money To Officers So They...
The Iraqi army is suffering badly from what locals describe as the “astronaut phenomenon”. That is, soldiers who pay money to superior officers so they can leave the world of the military and stay out...
View ArticleSpain plans to send 300 soldiers to Iraq
Saturday, 11 October, 2014 BAGHDAD / NINA / Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Morines, announced on Friday that his country plans to send 300 soldiers to Iraq, in addition to allowing the use of two...
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