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Long-range North Korean test missile 'designed to strike US' splashes down near Japan
2 months, 1 week ago

Long-range North Korean test missile 'designed to strike US' splashes down near Japan

ABC  

North Korea has test-launched a suspected new long-range missile, which South Korea says was designed to strike the continental United States. North Korea's Kim Jong Un says country will increase number of nuclear weapons Photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stands at a podium with microphones Kim Jong Un said North Korea is facing a "grave threat" from …

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Russian forces advance on Ukraine frontline city after Crimea oil depot attack
3 months ago

Russian forces advance on Ukraine frontline city after Crimea oil depot attack

ABC  

Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian frontline city of Toretsk, according to Ukraine's military. Further north in the Donetsk region, Ukraine said a Russian attack had killed one person and wounded seven — including children aged two and 13 — in the city of Sloviansk. A Russian attack on Ukraine's north-eastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday …

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India, China clashed twice near LAC after 2020 Galwan incident: Report
11 months, 3 weeks ago

India, China clashed twice near LAC after 2020 Galwan incident: Report

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: At least two previously unknown incidents of skirmishes between the Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control have come to light with citations for gallantry awards conferred on Indian Army personnel mentioning them. The citations, read out at an investiture ceremony by the Army's Western Command last week, provided brief details of how the Indian …

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Ukraine says it’s gained a foothold on eastern bank of Dnipro River near Kherson
1 year, 1 month ago

Ukraine says it’s gained a foothold on eastern bank of Dnipro River near Kherson

LA Times  

Ukrainian marines move along the Dnipro River at the front line near Kherson, in southern Ukraine, in October. A top Ukrainian official said Ukrainian troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region, an important advance in bridging one of Russia’s most significant strategic barriers in the war. Ever since Russian forces …

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Poland to move 10,000 troops to border near Belarus as Wagner threat grows
1 year, 5 months ago

Poland to move 10,000 troops to border near Belarus as Wagner threat grows

India TV News  

The Polish Defense Minister on Thursday said that the government is planning to deploy at least 10,000 troops along its border with neighbouring Belarus to prepare for a possible altercation with Wagner mercenary forces and migants trying to illegally cross the border. Additional 2,000 troops would be sent to the border over the next two weeks to double Poland's military …

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Pakistani security forces kill 6 militants in separate raids near the border with Afghanistan
1 year, 6 months ago

Pakistani security forces kill 6 militants in separate raids near the border with Afghanistan

The Hindu  

Pakistan’s military says security forces have raided two militant hideouts in regions near the border with Afghanistan, triggering intense shootouts that left six insurgents dead during the Eid holidays. A military statement said the two raids were conducted earlier on June 30, in Tank and North Waziristan districts on credible intelligence information about intrusion and hiding of militants in the …

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Vladimir Putin calls destruction of dam a catastrophe, Ukraine says it's made advances in Bakhmut
1 year, 7 months ago

Vladimir Putin calls destruction of dam a catastrophe, Ukraine says it's made advances in Bakhmut

ABC  

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the destruction of the Kakhovka dam an "environmental and humanitarian catastrophe" during a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Kremlin cited him as saying on Wednesday. Key points: Ukraine and Russia trade blame for the destruction of the dam Tens of thousands at risk from flooding in Russian and Ukrainian controlled areas …

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Endless shelling and dead soldiers: A vicious artillery war spreads in Ukraine
2 years, 6 months ago

Endless shelling and dead soldiers: A vicious artillery war spreads in Ukraine

LA Times  

The first shell was the worst, mostly because it came as a surprise. “I want to stay alive, that’s it, but I have to go these places.” Over his three months of service the battle lines have swung to and fro, but it was still two steps forward one step back in favor of the Russians. There’s shelling and shooting …

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Ukraine military plane with 14 onboard crashes near Kyiv
2 years, 10 months ago

Ukraine military plane with 14 onboard crashes near Kyiv

India Today  

A Ukrainian military plane with as many as 14 people onboard has crashed amid an ongoing attack by Russian troops. News agency AFP, quoting Ukrainian emergency services, said the plane crashed near the capital Kyiv. Russia also confirmed taking out military infrastructure at Ukraine's air bases 'suppressing' its air defences. READ | Russia-Ukraine war: 'Father Of All Bombs' part of …

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A post-Soviet border town in northern Ukraine wonders if Russia is coming back
2 years, 11 months ago

A post-Soviet border town in northern Ukraine wonders if Russia is coming back

LA Times  

Two Ukrainian servicemen with a dog walk in a trench at the front line position near Zolote, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2022. “These are allied military exercises and, naturally, this implies that the troops will return to their permanent bases after these drills are over.” Still, in an interview last week, Lukashenko said his forces would act in lockstep with …

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Three firing incidents between India-China in last 20 days in Eastern Ladakh
4 years, 3 months ago

Three firing incidents between India-China in last 20 days in Eastern Ladakh

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Having gone 45 years without a bullet being fired along the Line of Actual Control, India and China had at least three firing incidents between their troops in Eastern Ladakh in the last 20 days over the ongoing territorial dispute. "The first incident happened when the Indian Army preempted the Chinese attempt to occupy heights near Southern Bank …

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Psyops? China holds firing practice near LAC in bid to spook Indian troops
4 years, 4 months ago

Psyops? China holds firing practice near LAC in bid to spook Indian troops

India Today  

Top government sources have revealed that Chinese Army is carrying out firing practice well within territory controlled by them in Tibet but it can be heard on the Indian side at many locations along the Line of Actual Control from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh. pic.twitter.com/wt38kCxzWZ — Global Times September 9, 2020 India has strengthened its defences along the positions occupied …

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Green Top Near Pangong Emerges as Thorn in LAC Talks as China Digs in at Key Vantage Point
4 years, 5 months ago

Green Top Near Pangong Emerges as Thorn in LAC Talks as China Digs in at Key Vantage Point

News 18  

Green Top has embedded itself like a thorn at the heart of the disengagement process on the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and is threatening to poison the wider India-China talks aimed at drawing down troops before the winter, government sources have told News18. A bush-covered plateau perched at over 5,000 metres on a ridge stretching out from Pangong’s …

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Ladakh standoff: Three Indian soldiers, including a colonel martyred in Galwan
4 years, 6 months ago

Ladakh standoff: Three Indian soldiers, including a colonel martyred in Galwan

Op India  

In latest development from the Ladakh front, an Indian Army Colonel, who was the commanding officer of an infantry battalion and two Army jawans have been martyred during a clash with the Chinese troops at one of the standoff points in the Galwan Valley. According to journalist Shiv Aroor, the three Indian Army soldiers were martyred during the ongoing clash …

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Rockets fall near US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraqi air base housing US troops also attacked
5 years ago

Rockets fall near US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraqi air base housing US troops also attacked

India Today  

Several rockets fell inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the United States embassy and the Balad Air Force Base, an Iraqi air base housing US troops, in Baghdad on Saturday. The missile attacks near the US embassy and at the Balad Air Force Base have come a day after a deadly American strike in Baghdad which killed top …

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Defense secretary Mark Esper says Trump ordered near total withdrawal of troops from Syria
5 years, 2 months ago

Defense secretary Mark Esper says Trump ordered near total withdrawal of troops from Syria

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump is ordering the remaining US forces out of northern Syria, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday, a development that has paralyzed the fight against ISIS and ceded US and Kurdish battlefield gains to Moscow and Damascus. I spoke with the President last night, after discussions with the rest of the national security team, and he …

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