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As China aims for ‘world-class army’, Asia starts to worry
China’s military budget has grown steadily for 30 years, but its ‘world-class army’ is not a strategic threat — for now.
N Korea readies missiles after US stealth bombers fly over South
North Korea has put its missile units on standby to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific.
Air strike kills 30 militants in Afghanistan
United States-led coalition forces killed 30 militants, including a Taliban commander, in an air strike in west Afghanistan.
US military frees Reuters cameraman in Iraq
The United States military freed a Reuters television cameraman on Thursday after holding him for three weeks in Iraq without charges.
US military HQ in Africa put on the back burner
Controversy surrounding the United States military’s new Africa Command has forced the Pentagon to put plans for establishing a headquarters in the continent on a slow track.
Burma death toll soars as diplomats tour delta
Burma’s ruling military junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as its toll of dead and missing soared above 133 000 people, making…
Burma says no need for foreign aid distribution
Burma will accept foreign aid but distribute relief itself, an official newspaper said on Friday, after a disaster rescue team from Qatar that arrived in Rangoon on an aid flight…
Luxury hotels and golf: Welcome to the Green Zone
Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad’s International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, swanky cafes, and shiny glass office towers. Nearby a golf course…
US rocket strike near Baghdad hospital wounds 20
The United States military fired rockets at a target near a hospital in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding 20 people. No patients were wounded at the hospital in the Sadr City…
Somali militants vow revenge after killing of Islamist chief
Somali Islamist militants on Friday promised to avenge the killing of a man said to be an al-Qaeda’s chief, warning citizens from countries they considered hostile to stay away…
Iraq suicide bomber slaughters dozens
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, a police officer said. The man detonated an explosives vest in…
Gunmen kidnap 42 students in Iraq
Gunmen kidnapped 42 university students near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, police said, in one of the biggest mass abductions in the country in many months. ”Gunmen…
Iraq archbishop kidnappers wanted $1-million
Kidnappers of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop found dead in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had demanded a -million ransom, a senior police official said on Friday. Paulos Faraj…
About 100 bodies found in Iraq mass grave
Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the United States military said on Saturday, one of the largest such finds in the…
US confirms military strike in Somalia
The United States military targeted suspected ”terrorists” in a strike launched early on Monday in Dobley, Somalia, a senior US military official said. The official, who declined…