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Colombia declares FARC war over as last guns roll away
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
Santos himself shut a padlock on the last lot of decommissioned rifles before it was taken out of a remote demobilization camp to formally seal the UN-supervise...
Colombia gives protection to demobilized FARC
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
The 7,000 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have disarmed under a peace deal and are preparing to enter civilian and political life. Defense...
Philippines' communist rebellion: a new generation
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
Fuelled by one of the world's starkest rich-poor divides, a Maoist rebellion that began months before the first human landed on the moon plods on even though th...
US-led strikes kill 17 in Syria's Raqa: monitor
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
The coalition is providing air support in the form of heavy air strikes for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia as it battles to oust IS from its onetime...
Syrian rebels say they downed regime plane, captured pilot
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
The Ahmad al-Abdo Forces shot down the Syrian government MiG-21 near Wadi Mahmud in the southern province of Sweida, the group's communications head Fares al-Mu...
Conflicts in Syria, Iraq far from over despite IS setbacks
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
In July the jihadists lost control of Iraq's second city Mosul in a major setback three years after declaring a "caliphate" straddling the two countries. Across...
Yemen air raids exceed rate last year: UN
Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)
Since 2015, Yemen has been the site of a devastating war between the Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels allied with Iran. The country is also regularly ta...
Book gives voice to Vietnam's strangled anger over war
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
Not any more. "The Sympathizer," by Vietnamese-American academic Viet Thanh Nguyen, has ended that silence. An excoriating tragi-comic novel, a bestseller in th...
Colombia FARC rebels want to form pro football club
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have disarmed under a peace deal after a half-century conflict and are transitioning to civil and political life. "We...
Dozens dead in central Syria as IS battles regime push: monitor
Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)
With Russian backing, Syria's army has been waging a months-long offensive to recapture the vast desert region that stretches from the country's centre to the I...
Attack on UN office in Colombia injures police officer
Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)
Assailants attacked the location where the FARC rebel group had a weapons stash in the southwestern town of Caloto, in Cauca department, according to police, wh...
US calls off rescue for three marines missing off Australia
Aug 06, 2017 (AFP)
Following the incident involving a MV-22 Osprey -- a hybrid helicopter-turboprop with a chequered safety record -- Japan's defence minister asked Washington to ...
Syria army advances against IS, approaches Deir Ezzor: monitor
Aug 06, 2017 (AFP)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the army had made "significant progress" south of Raqa city. "There is now just four kilo...
Philippine military needs 20,000 more troops due to greater threats: Duterte
Aug 06, 2017 (AFP)
Almost 700 people have been killed, according to the official count, in over two months of fighting in the southern city of Marawi against Islamist militants wh...
US special forces supporting ops against AQAP in Yemen
Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)
The operations center on Shabwa province, where Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has an established presence. Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis...
Outgoing UN envoy says now up to Cypriots to strike deal
Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)
"If people want change, they need to stand up for change," Espen Barth Eide told reporters after a meeting in Nicosia with President Nicos Anastasiades, the Gre...
Israel soccer attack plotter killed in Syria: official
Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)
Lavdrim Muhaxheri was killed in a June 7 air strike near Mayadin, which is close to Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon said. "...
Turkey arrests 3 soldiers 'who beat Syrians on border'
Jul 31, 2017 (AFP)
The video, widely shared on social media but which could not be independently verified, appears to shows four Turkish soldiers kicking and beating the Syrians. ...
Canada probes possible Saudi use of its equipment in crackdown
Jul 30, 2017 (AFP)
"We are looking at these claims very seriously... and have immediately launched a review," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking in French, said in during a v...
Czech Republic to boost military numbers by 30 percent
Jul 28, 2017 (AFP)
Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky said the number of people in the armed forces would rise from around 23,000 today to 30,000 "within the next five to seven ye...
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