Tag: military

Iraqi forces have launched a broad operation to root out fighters from the Islamic State group who have been harassing ...

Jihadists preparing for a desperate last stand in Mosul are booby-trapping homes with civilians inside and welding doors shut on ...

US-backed fighters hunted for jihadist holdouts in Syria's Tabqa on Thursday after overrunning the city and nearby dam in a ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and new South Korean president Moon Jae-In agreed on Thursday that denuclearising North Korea was a ...

An Australian soldier has died during a training exercise in the Northern Territory. The man was taking part in a ...

The United States will soon start delivering weapons to Syria's Kurdish fighters, despite furious Turkish objections, a US military spokesman ...

An alliance dominated by Al-Qaeda's former Syrian branch has warned rebel groups against implementing a deal on safe zones, saying ...

Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in Syria said Wednesday that the "historic" US decision to provide them with ...

Turkey on Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" a US announcement that Washington would supply arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters ...

US President Donald Trump has approved supplying weapons to Kurdish forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria, the Pentagon ...

Chinese defense chiefs say the country's military has successfully tested a new kind of guided missile near the Korean peninsula. ...

A UN peacekeeper was killed and four others were missing following an attack on their convoy in the southeast of ...

Iraqi forces announced on Tuesday they had retaken yet another neighbourhood of western Mosul, tightening the noose around jihadists holed ...

Key members of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday ...

At least six people were killed and about 10 injured Monday in a car bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu ...

Syrian rebels and their families begin evacuating from a district of the capital Damascus for the first time on Monday, ...

Syrian rebels and their families began leaving a northern district of the capital on Monday, state television said, in the ...

The head of ISIL in Afghanistan was killed in an operation led by Afghan Special Forces in the eastern province ...

Dozens of Islamic State group fighters cornered in a northern part of Syria's Tabqa are holding off US-backed forces that ...

Ghanaian peacekeepers have been praised by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for foiling an attack at a ...