Russia Warns It Is Ready To Place Eastern Ukraine 'Under Its Protection'
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it reserved the right to protect compatriots in eastern Ukraine after clashes in the city of Donetsk in which one person was killed.The Foreign Ministry said...
View ArticleExtremist Jihadi Group Retreats From Two Syrian Provinces After Alienating...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group in Syria pulled out of two provinces in the country's northwest on Friday and headed to its eastern strongholds after months of clashes with rival rebels,...
View ArticleFrench Air Strikes Kill Wanted Islamist Militant 'Red Beard' In Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) - French air strikes in the mountains of northern Mali have killed Islamist militant Oumar Ould Hamaha, a jihadist with a $3 million U.S. government bounty on his head, a Malian...
View ArticleChinese Data Theft Could Be 'Disastrous' For The US Military's Most Expensive...
The F-35, the U.S. Armed Forces' most expensive project to date, may be outdated before it's even been deployed, The Washington Free Beacon reports, citing U.S. officials and defense analysts.This...
View ArticleChina's Military Spending: At The Double
China's fast-growing defence budget worries its neighbours, but not every trend is in its favour.On the first day of the annual session of the National People's Congress last week, China announced a...
View ArticleSerbian Ultra-Nationalists Flock To Crimea To Support Russia
BAKCHISARAY, Ukraine (Reuters) - Bearded men in camouflage uniforms and black fur hats and armed with knives, were checking traffic on Thursday along the busy road linking Crimea's regional capital of...
View Article6 Russian Combat Planes Armed With Live Missiles Deployed To Belarus
Russia has deployed six Su-27 warplanes to Belarus to “counter the massing of forces on the border."The six Russian Sukhoi-27 Flankers accompanied three support transport planes to Bobruisk airfield in...
View ArticleMalaysian PM: Diversion And Communications Shutdown 'Consistent With...
After an unnamed Malaysian official told the APthe missing Malaysia Airlines flight was "hijacked" late Friday, the Malaysian Prime Minister pushed back on the report during a press conference, while...
View ArticleUS Navy's Elite 'Blue Angels' Return After Being Grounded For Much Of 2013
(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels elite aviation team famed for its crowd-pleasing daredevil stunts at public air shows, returns to the skies on Saturday after being grounded by budget cuts for...
View ArticleArmy Officer Freaks Out Thousands Of Government Employees With Cybersecurity...
An Army combat commander sending out a phishing email to test whether his staff was keen on cybersecurity got more than he or she bargained for after the message ended up being forwarded to thousands...
View ArticleNATO Website Taken Down By Cyberattacks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Several NATO websites have been hit by cyber attacks, but they have had no impact on the military alliance's operations, a NATO spokeswoman said.The attacks, which affected NATO's...
View ArticlePolice Search Pilot's Home As Focus Shifts To Criminal Inquiry In Plane...
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has shifted to a criminal inquiry following comments from the Malaysian prime minister Friday, who called attempts to turn off communications equipment...
View ArticleKARZAI: Afghanistan Doesn't Need US Troops
In his final address to parliament, President Hamid Karzai said Afghanistan's security forces can maintain order so the United States can withdraw all its troops.Karzai told parliament on March 15 that...
View ArticleThis Russian Exclave Has Poland Worried About What Putin Will Do Next
Putin's invasion in Crimea and his apparent willingness to redraw international borders to have set Eastern Europe and the Baltic States on edge.Russian forces poured into the strategic Black Sea...
View ArticlePutin To Obama: Kiev Can't Protect Russian Speakers In Ukraine From 'Radicals'
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday Crimea's referendum on union with Russia was legitimate and expressed concern about Kiev's failure to stamp out...
View ArticleHow The Main Ingredient In A Party Drug Could Help Veterans With PTSD
A new scientific study is looking at the impact of MDMA— the key ingredient in the party drug Ecstasy — on veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleA Marine Corps Sergeant Wrote A Brilliant And Hilarious Obituary For Himself
Walter George Bruhl Jr., a Sergeant in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, passed away Sunday, March 9.Before passing, Bruhl penned his own obituary. And now the witty and beautiful homage has gone...
View ArticleHow Navy SEALs Are Able To Seize A Ship In Minutes — Like The Tanker They...
This morning Navy SEALs boarded a renegade oil tanker near Cyprus that was carrying stolen oil from a rebel held port in Libya.While there are no videos of the operation, it is likely that the SEALs...
View ArticleThailand Has Been Sitting On Radar Data From The Missing Malaysia Flight For...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner's communications went down, and that it...
View ArticleEXPERT: Putin Is Now An Even Darker Version Of Himself
I don’t, alas, have time to give it a proper consideration, but my initial response from watching Putin’s Crimea speech is that this is another of those watershed moments.To me, we are seeing in...
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