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Breaking News Thu, 29 Jul 2010
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen hold a press briefing, Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the Pentagon.
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   US   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
 Al Jazeera 
Pentagon asks FBI to probe leak
| The US defence department has asked the FBI to help investigate the leak of more than 90,000 classified military documents, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said. | Speaking at a news ... (photo: AP / Kevin Wolf)
An Iraqi man holds blood-stained clothes at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A bomb planted near a state-run bank killed and injured several people in the eastern Shiite slum of Sadr City police said.
Baghdad   Defence   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Civil war in Iraq  
 The Australian 
Baghdad attacks leave 16 dead
| SIXTEEN people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded yesterday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry s... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, left, shakes hands with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of an UNASUR meeting in Quito, Thursday July 29, 2010.  The Star 
South Americans try to end Venezuela-Colombia rift
| QUITO (Reuters) - South American foreign ministers meet in Ecuador on Thursday to discuss broken ties between Venezuela and Colombia, with sparks likely over the two Andean nations' clashing plans t... (photo: AP / Patricio Realpe)
Colombia   FARC   Photos   Venezuela   Wikipedia: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia  
In this photo released by the Emirates News Agency (WAM), The 'M. Star' oil supertanker anchors offshore Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates Thursday, July 29, 2010.  The New York Times 
Questions Swirl About Damaged Japanese Tanker
| Shipping officials said Thursday that they were examining the hull of a Japanese oil tanker that was mysteriously damaged this week as it traversed a strategically vital waterway between Iran and th... (photo: AP / Emirates News Agency)
Accident   Japan   Mideast   Photos   Shipping  
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Iraqis inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A bomb planted near a state-run bank killed and injured several people in the eastern Shiite slum of Sadr City police said. The New York Times
Iraqi Insurgents Plant Qaeda Flag in Baghdad
| BAGHDAD — In a brazen late-afternoon attack in the heart of this city’s most prominent Sunni neighborhood, gunmen attacked two police checkpoints on Thursda... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Al Qaida   Defence   Iraq   Photos   Wikipedia: Civil war in Iraq  
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead, right, greets Vice President Joe Biden at the U.S. Naval Academy class of 2010 graduation and commissioning ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. USA Today
Vice President Biden says Afghan policy still developing
Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Crystal Ochoa/The Arizona Republic Vice President Biden said the White House won't be able to assess w... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst)
Afghanistan   Arizona   Biden   Photos   Wikipedia: Joe Biden  
Vice President, Joe Biden shakes hands with Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Gabriella De Los Santos on the mess decks aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). USA Today
Biden details U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | By David Jackson, USA TODAY FORT DRUM, N.Y. — As members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division stood at atten... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Benjamin Brossard)
Biden   Iraq   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Joe Biden  
Former Philippine Marine Col. Ariel Querubin waves as he steps out of the gate of his detention center for his provisional liberty Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. Querubin was detained for four years after figuring in a failed attempt to overthrow the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. (AP Photo/Pat Roque) Malaya
Querubin freed from detention; cases of others under study
BY VICTOR REYES | MARINES Col. Ariel Querubin was released yesterday from detention in Camp Aguinaldo and turned over to the custodial care of Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Ordoñe... (photo: AP / Pat Roque)
Democracy   Military   Philippines   Photos   Wikipedia: 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines  
oldiers belonging to the rebel group "Magdalo" watch the perimeter of a hotel after they enter it Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 in Manila's financial district of Makati. Several military officers stormed out of their coup trial, took over an upscale hotel and urged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)oldiers belonging to the rebel group "Magdalo" watch the perimeter of a hotel after they enter it Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 in Manila's financial district of Makati. Several military officers stormed out of their coup trial, took over an upscale hotel and urged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) Malaya
Will the Magdalos' saga finally end?
By TESSA JAMANDRE | VERA Files | (Last of Two Parts) | Hundreds of junior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines who took over the Oakwood Hotel in 2003 in a mut... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)
Magdalo   Military   Mutiny   Photos   Wikipedia: Magdalo (Katipunan faction)  
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, talks during an interview at the United Nations Friday, Sept. 16, 200 Irish Times
Mugabe a front for military dictatorship, says PM aide
| BILL CORCORAN in Cape Town | SENIOR MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) politician, Roy Bennett has claimed Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is just a front man for ... (photo: AP / Ed Betz)
Military   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
British Aerospace Hawk T1 (XX245) flies at Kimble Air Day 2008, Kimble Airport, Gloucester shire, England. The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single engine, advanced jet trainer aircraft. It first flew in 1974 as the Hawker Siddeley Hawk. The Hawk is used by the Royal Air Force, and other air forces, as either a trainer or a low-cost combat aircraft. Daily Star Lebanon
India signs $1.1 billion jet deal with BAE, Rolls-Royce
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 | - Powered by | NEW DELHI: BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce will supply India with 57 Hawk military training jets in a deal worth around 700 million... (photo: Creative Commons / Adrian Pingstone)
Defence   India   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: BAE Systems  
File - A Yemeni soldier walks by the damage at the main entrance of the US Embassy in the capital San'a, Yemen Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Khaleej Times
Yemen rebels free 200 captured soldiers
SANAA ' Yemeni Shiite rebels freed on Wednesday 200 soldiers they had captured two days earlier and promised to release other prisoners, both civilian and military, a med... (photo: AP / Mohammed al-Qadhi)
Military   Photos   Rebels   Yemen  
British troops sit on top of a tank as they secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack on a British patrol that left two Iraqi women injured, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006, in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday Feb. 21, 2008 a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported. Blair will also tell the House of Commons during his regular weekly appearance before it that a total of about 3,000 British soldiers will have left southern Iraq by the end of 2007, if the security there is sufficient, the British Broadcasting Corp. said, quoting government officials who weren't further identif The Star
British army almost 'seized up' in Iraq, Afghan wars
| LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's army was on the verge of "seizing up" in 2006 when it faced a "perfect storm" of simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former milita... (photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani)
Afghanistan   Iraq   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)  
President Barack Obama answers media questions after an unannounced appearance at the White House daily press briefing in Washington, following a bipartisan meeting with House The Australian
Afghan bungles justify surge, claims Obama
| BARACK Obama has declared that the blunders revealed in leaked US military documents about the Afghan war show why he backed a revised US strategy late last year. | In ... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   US   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Herman, with Combat Logistic Battalion 8, provides security during a road reconnaissance patrol with Guard Force 1, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Sept. 6, 2009, in the Nawa district of the Helmand province of Afghanistan. The Australian
Leaked details put informant lives in danger
| HUNDREDS of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents because the files identify informants working with NATO forces. | In just... (photo: USMC / Staff Sgt. William Greeson)
Afghanistan   Intelligence   Photos   US   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
War in Iraq War on Terrorism
- Iraqi Insurgents Plant Qaeda Flag in Baghdad
- The 'Real' Rogue Soldiers
- Lord Prescott Appearing At Iraq Inquiry
- Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack
Iraqis inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A bomb planted near a state-run bank killed and injured several people in the eastern Shiite slum of Sadr City police said.
Iraqi Insurgents Plant Qaeda Flag in Baghdad
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- Pakistan 'saddened' by British premier's terror
- British PM, in India, sparks ‘terror’ row with Pakistan
- Karzai doubts allies plan to fight terror
- Cameron `terror' hit riles Pakistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
Karzai doubts allies plan to fight terror
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Military Rebels / Insurgency Armed Forces
-  Missing airman found in Sudan
- Missing Russian pilot freed in Sudan - diplomats, U.N.
- FARC Guerilla Extradited For Allegedly Kidnapping American
-  Shebab vow to make Mogadishu a graveyard
Army vehicles full of soldiers occupy the road as they secure the area in Indanan town , Sulu province in the southern Philippines on Monday Sept. 25, 2000. More than 36,000 villagers were affected and some have moved into evacuation centers after the military stepped up their operations against the Abu Sayyaf rebels who are still holding 17 hostages in the jungles of
Military lauds proposal to resume peace talks with insurgents
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- Excessive force suspension reversed for Texas cop
- Congolese journalist under arrest - stations forced off air
- Software Rivals Joining Forces To Fight Hackers
- Central forces to stay in 'Jungle Mahal': Buddhade
President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from second from left, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, and Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, waves as they step off Air Force One in Cleveland, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, en route to Lorain County, Ohio, where he will discuss the economy.
Sherrod fallout: Obama says forced ouster wrong
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Weapons and Equipment Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Mining, exploration software helping Pan-African gold miner
- Mining group capitalises 
on Africa’s mining projects
- DMR accepts mining rights application for planned Waterberg
- 'Countdown to Zero' a fearful chronology of nuclear
Family members of a victim who was killed in a suicide bombing grieve at his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009.
Gunmen and bombs kill at least 12 in Iraq
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- 'Rubicon' offers riddles, but few answers
- Miliband brothers battle it out over Iraq war
- 2nd US sailor's body recovered in Afghanistan
- The Chilcot Inquiry, Aggression and the ICC
Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix arrives to give evidence at the Iraq War Inquiry in London, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Hans Blix told Tony Blair before Iraq invasion that he would not find any WMD
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Chemical Weapons Nuclear Weapons
- US defends nuclear treaty with Russia against critics
- If Doomsday is coming, how will you prepare? - Photo Gallery
- Study: US ability to probe nuclear blasts fades
- Sykes expects police will do 'credible' investigatio
Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix arrives to give evidence at the Iraq War Inquiry in London, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Hans Blix told Tony Blair before Iraq invasion that he would not find any WMD
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- US defends nuclear treaty with Russia against critics
- U.S. Nuclear Forensics Skill Is Declining, Report Says
- MoD must pay Trident bill, Osborne tells Fox: Replacing Brit
- Study: US ability to probe nuclear blasts fades
The exterior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, 360 kms southwest of Tehran, is seen on Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. Iran's top leader rejected a long-term suspension of uranium enrichment and threatened Wednesday that Iranian diplomats will withdraw from talks with European negotiators if they insist on such a suspension. Heavy water is used to moderate a nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear reactor.
US hopes for Iran nuclear talks
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