The unhinged despot has shot the devastating warheads into the sea off its south east coast, according to South Korea's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff. The missiles were fired from a western region south of the capital Pyongyang at around 3am GMT. It comes just days after Kim Jong-un threatened to turn South Korea's...
Last fall, the Navy Department had a controversial disciplinary case before it: Maj. Jason C. Brezler had been asked by Marine colleagues to submit all the information he had about an influential Afghan police chief suspected of abusing children. Brezler sent a classified document in response over an unclassified Yahoo email...
Iran was allowed to evade a number of restrictions specified in the nuclear agreement signed with a group of world powers last year, according to a new report. In the report, seen by news agency Reuters, the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security reveals it was told by several...
A former Israeli general lambasted the ongoing military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Wednesday, speaking at a conference in Herzliya. Maj. Gen. (res.) Gadi Shamni, head of the army’s Central Command in 2007-2009, claimed that the Israelis “have elevated the occupation to an art form.” He...
Elite North Korean soldiers are being armed with “nuclear backpacks”, a source has claimed as tensions increase over the authoritarian state’s attempts at military escalation. An anonymous source told Radio Free Asia special units have been formed since March to carry the weapons and had been taking part in...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The rebel fighter, a former major in the Syrian Army, thought he had finally found what he was looking for: a group with strong international backing that was gearing up for an offensive against his two most hated enemies, the Syrian government and the Islamic State militant group. But within days of...
The public killings were carried out as a show of force by the young leader, who took the reigns from his father Kim Jong Il in 2011. They are the latest in a string of slaughters carried out at the bequest of the 32-year-old tyrant and the victims are said to be agriculture minister Hwang Min and Ri Yong Jin, a senior official...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by "provocative" American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas. The North's Korean People's Army accused U.S. and South Korean soldiers of "deliberate...
The suspected mastermind of an Isis attack that killed more than 20 people at a café in Bangladesh has been shot dead by police. Tamim Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian militant, died in a gun battle after security forces raided a building near Dhaka on Saturday. AKM Shahidul Hoque, head of the national police, said he...
THE ABU Sayyaf Group (ASG) has confirmed that at least 12 of its members were killed during the fierce gun battle with Philippine troops yesterday but said high-ranking commander Mohammad Said was not among them. According to ABS-CBN, Abu Rami, a spokesman for ASG, made the denial today after it was publicly announced by...
Britain was today warned of a rising threat from Islamic State fighters sent “on mission” from Syria. The alert came as the EU’s top law enforcement officer revealed that increasing numbers of jihadis are using fake documents to sneak into Europe. Europol’s director Rob Wainwright said IS had taken a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy ship fired three warning shots in the direction of an Iranian boat that was approaching another American ship head-on in the North Arabian Gulf on Wednesday, U.S. officials said, in an escalation of encounters in the region this week. According to U.S. Navy Cmdr. Bill Urban, the Iranian boat...