“We are not at war with Islam” — President Obama It was only last month that Pentagon officials repeatedly implored Pastor Terry Jones not to burn copies of the Quran fearing that Jones’s inflammatory action could arouse Muslim sentiments and endanger the lives of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet, a month later [...]
CAIRO: The first Saudi Arabia women have been recruited into the country’s military service, Arab News reports. However, they will be stationed as privates as Passport Control departments on only border crossings. Although a first, many in the country argue it does little to boost female participation in the ultra-conservative country known for its repression [...]
SANA’A: Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamic group linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has lately increased its attacks on security and military bases and checkpoints almost in the Yemeni southern provinces. As a matter of fact, the group started its operations against government forces since the last year after widespread protests against the ex-president Ali [...]
CAIRO: Prince Khaled bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister, spoke of the need for making military equipment spare parts locally, adding that it was encouraged by the late Prince Sultan. Speaking to reporters after visiting the air force command in Riyadh, he said about 120 factories in the Kingdom are now producing 156 spare [...]
CAIRO: Presidential hopeful Khaled Ali attacked the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces demands to draft the constitution before the upcoming presidential elections. There is no reason for the hurry to draft a constitution that won’t fit the people who sacrificed its best youth for the success of the revolution, said Ali in a [...]
SANA’A: Sources close to Yemen’s presidential palace told Bikyamasr.com under cover of anonymity as the matter was classified, that President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi had very limited control over the armed forces as often his will was in contradiction with that of former President Ali Abdulla Saleh’s supporters or family members. For example, over the [...]
CAIRO: Princess Hessa bint Salman spoke publically of the need for women to participate in the Saudi military industrial complex. She also highlighted the participation of government sectors in boosting the industrial role played by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) for girls. Princess Hessa was attending a ceremony where an agreement to establish [...]
SANA’A: Yemen military sources within the past hour have announced that al-Qaeda militants attacked a military camp in Khor al-Badr in the southern territories, stressing that the Islamists were now using mortar shells and heavy artillery against the armed forces. So far no casualties had been reported in the hour-long fighting. This new strike occurred [...]
SANA’A: For the first time ever since President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced his departure from the presidency and the elections of Yemen’s new strongman, President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the capital was shaken on Sunday evening by a series of explosions, followed by a series of fierce gun fighting throughout several districts of the capital, [...]
CAIRO: According to Egypt’s State Information Service, Egypt and Jordan concluded their air exercise codenamed, Ain Jalut-12. The exercise, which was conducted at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, was meant to promote military cooperation between Egypt and Jordan. During the exercise, which began on March 18, air fighters from the two countries carried out [...]
SANA’A: As war planes loudly flew over the Yemeni capital this Sunday morning, reminders that fighting in Arhab and its vicinity were still raging, residents in the northern districts of the capital told Bikyamasr.com that soldiers loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and Sheikh Sadeeq al-Ahmar’s tribesmen had come back to their neighborhoods in their [...]
SANA’A: Yemeni tribes in north Sana’a denied on Saturday accusations of armed clashes between Yemen’s Republican Guards and suspected Al-Qaeda militants. In a statement posted by political opponents of the General People’s Congress which is still headed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, spokespersons confirmed that reports warning against the presence of AQAP militants in Arahab, [...]
NEW DELHI: Plagued by repeated corruption scandals, India’s federal government is now in the eye of yet another corruption storm after the country’s top army official revealed last week that a retired senior army official had offered him a bribe to clear a sub standard army vehicle contract. After the Opposition stalled the proceedings of [...]
NEW DELHI: Maoist rebels in India’s Maharashtra state, in Western India, blew up a van carrying paramilitary personnel, killing 15 people Tuesday mid-morning. Police said that the incident occurred at Dhanuda, in the violence afflicted Gadchiroli district of Maharshtra, which has a history of Maoist violence. “The van was carrying 30 soldiers of the Central [...]
Istanbul (dpa) – The trial of Turkey’s former military chief Ilker Basbug opened on Monday in Istanbul, with the former general facing charges of establishing a “terrorist group” to overthrow the government. Turkey’s state news agency Anatolia reported that the trial opened with the reading of the 39 page indictment, and a request from Basbug’s [...]
Kabul (dpa) – A gunman wearing the Afghan National Army uniform shot dead two soldiers from the NATO-led international force in the south of the country on Monday, the alliance said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement that “an individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – India’s army chief alleged he was offered a bribe of 2.7 million dollars by a defense equipment lobbyist, sparking an uproar in Parliament Monday. General VK Singh told daily newspaper The Hindu that the lobbyist had offered the bribe to make him clear the purchase of 600 “substandard vehicles of a [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – India’s army chief alleged he was offered a bribe of 27 million dollars by a defense equipment lobbyist, charges which sparked an uproar in Parliament Monday. General VK Singh told the Hindu newspaper that the lobbyist had offered the bribe to make him clear the purchase of 600 “substandard vehicles of [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia and Philippines officially announced on Monday a security deal for a joint working group aimed to aid in combating trans-border issues, the Philippines armed forces said. The Philippines military Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Jessie Dellosa said the two sides had finalized the Philippine-Indonesia working group with his Indonesian counterpart, Admiral Agus [...]
Brussels (dpa) – Justice will be served in the case of the US soldier charged with the killing of 17 civilians in Afghanistan, a US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, said Saturday. “I’m sure there will be justice,” Grossman said at the Brussels Forum, an annual think-tank event in the Belgian capital. [...]
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