The United Nations (UN) on Monday urged West African states to adopt a mixture of military action and good governance to defeat the scourge of violent extremism and terrorism in the region.
2022-11-22 11:15Polish government confirmed on Tuesday night that two Polish citizens were killed in explosions in the Polish city of Hrubieszow near the Poland-Ukraine border, amid media reports over missiles hit there in the afternoon.
2022-11-16 10:17Six people were killed after two WWII aircraft collided in midair on Saturday during an air show in the U.S. city of Dallas, authorities said on Sunday.
2022-11-14 09:59A total of 250 Afghan youths joined the national army after completing a 70-day military training course, provincial director for Information and Culture Qari Maazudin Ahmadi said Sunday.
2022-11-13 21:39Fighting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) army and the M23 militia has led to a complex and deteriorating humanitarian situation, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday.
2022-11-12 23:45Somali security forces on Wednesday killed 97 al-Shabab extremists in two separate operations conducted in the central part of the country, the Somali government said.
2022-11-10 11:35The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a ballistic missile eastward, Yonhap reported Wednesday, citing the Republic of Korea (ROK)'s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
2022-11-09 20:38Amid the record-scale U.S.-South Korea Vigilant Storm joint air exercises, the Korean People's Army (KPA) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) lashed out with a series of military countermeasures from Wednesday to Saturday, the KPA said Monday.
2022-11-07 23:54Yemen's government forces said on Sunday that it shot down two bomb-laden drones launched by the Houthi militia over the past 24 hours.
2022-11-07 10:07Turkish armed forces and a naval ship have started their mission for the security of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the Turkish defense ministry said Sunday.
2022-11-06 22:29The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali helped bring a mobile court to the town of Dire in the Timbuktu region of Mali, a UN spokesman said on Friday.
2022-11-05 21:56The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired multiple ballistic missiles, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, toward its eastern waters on Thursday, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing the Republic of Korea's (ROK) military.
2022-11-03 23:54Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian on Wednesday after he carried out a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Israeli army and Palestinian health ministry said.
2022-11-03 00:55Over 3,000 Philippine and U.S. troops on Monday kicked off a series of joint military drills to sharpen their "interoperability in conducting combined tactical readiness."
2022-10-03 23:25Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Wednesday night that Tehran is ready to reach a "good agreement" on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal provided that such an agreement would be a "fair" one.
2022-09-29 19:33UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland on Wednesday voiced concern over the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.
2022-09-29 00:17UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for the use of every means to eliminate the nuclear threat.
2022-09-27 16:39Vice President Kamala Harris reaffirmed the ironclad commitment of the U.S. to Japan's defense, the White House said in a statement on Monday after the vice president met with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in Tokyo.
2022-09-26 20:27The Independent High-Level Panel on Security and Development in the Sahel was launched Saturday in New York during a high-level event on the war-torn region on the margins of the UN General Assembly's annual debate.
2022-09-26 15:07South Korea and the United States on Monday launched their joint maritime drills near the Korean Peninsula, involving a U.S. aircraft carrier and over 20 warships from the two sides.
2022-09-26 15:05The Iranian foreign minister urged Washington to prove its determination and goodwill to reach an agreement on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal with realism, the official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
2022-09-25 21:10Iran needs reassuring guarantees as well as the closure of the ongoing inquiry into the Islamic republic by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) before a nuclear deal can be reached, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday.
2022-09-21 15:18Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan signed a protocol to resolve their armed conflict on the border, the press service of Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security reported Tuesday.
2022-09-20 16:28UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for global solidarity, collective action, commitment and mutual trust on the occasion of the International Day of Peace, which falls on Sept. 21.
2022-09-17 15:41A top Iranian military commander said on Friday the country will carry out the final test of its upgraded homegrown missile defense system, dubbed Bavar (Belief) 373, in the coming days, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
2022-09-10 16:33Most crime guns seized by police in Toronto, Canada's largest city, came from the United States, the National Post reported.
2022-09-08 22:38A terrorist assault on the UN peacekeeping base in Ber, Mali in the Timbuktu region, on Friday caused significant damage, a UN spokeswoman said.
2022-09-05 20:07Iran has given answers to the U.S. responses to its viewpoints on the EU's draft of a potential nuclear agreement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
2022-09-02 17:47The UN Security Council on Wednesday called for more coordinated approach among all relevant partners, in particular through enhanced efforts to improve capacity building, in addressing conflict prevention, peacebuilding and other challenges in Africa.
2022-09-01 10:04The Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for another year, till Aug. 31, 2023.
2022-09-01 10:00Georgia on Monday kicked off the Noble Partner 2022 multinational military exercise at the Vaziani military base near its capital Tbilisi.
2022-08-31 09:05The UN Security Council on Tuesday renewed the travel ban and asset freeze imposed on individuals and entities obstructing implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, until Aug. 31, 2023.
2022-08-31 09:03Columns of soldiers and police officers marching to martial and band music as President Salva Kiir and his entire cabinet watched on in amusement was the scene on Tuesday at the Dr. John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
2022-08-31 09:03UN special envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen on Monday warned of troubling signs of recent military escalation in Syria, while calling for a comprehensive manner to address situation in the country.
2022-08-30 08:55UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called on the world to bring into force a treaty to ban all nuclear tests.
2022-08-29 23:28The Egyptian, U.S. and Spanish navies held a joint maritime exercise within the range of Egypt's Northern Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, said the Egyptian military on Saturday.
2022-08-28 20:46UN Undersecretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo on Tuesday called for the cessation of all military activities around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
2022-08-24 08:45Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers performed a scheduled flight above the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
2022-08-24 08:46Up to 291 Syrian soldiers and Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in confrontations between the two sides since the beginning of this year, a war monitor reported on Friday night.
2022-08-21 00:21Despite having long touted itself as a global human rights defender, the United States has, in actuality, been the biggest human rights violator, the very culprit behind many wars, massacres and tortures in the Middle East and beyond, Iraqi experts have said.
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