Year: 2019
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Dec- 2019 -27 DecemberEurope
Russia says first Avangard hypersonic missile enters service
Russian defense minister Sergey Shoygu told President Vladimir Putin that the country's first Avangard hypersonic missiles have been put into service
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27 DecemberMiddle East
Japan to send military assets to the Gulf but won’t join US coalition
Japan will send a military vessel and two patrol planes to help protect waterways in the Middle East but will not join a US-led coalition in the region
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23 DecemberAfrica
Algeria’s powerful army chief of staff Gaid Salah dies
Algeria's powerful army chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah died at a military hospital in the capital Algeris
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23 DecemberAsia Pacific
US service member killed in action in Afghanistan
A US Green Beret, Sgt 1st Class Michael James Goble, was killed in action in Afghanistan
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22 DecemberAsia Pacific
Philippines troops rescue 2 Indonesian sailors from Abu Sayyaf in Jolo
Philippine troops rescued two abducted Indonesian sailors in a Sunday pre-dawn raid on an Abu Sayyaf stronghold in Jolo which left two dead
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20 DecemberBusiness
US approves sale of equipment for Argentina’s 4 P-3C Orion patrol aircraft
The U.S. State Department approved the $78 million possible sale of equipment, parts, support and services for Argentina's four P-3C aircraft
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20 DecemberBusiness
US awards Boeing $1.4 billion to support foreign AH-64 Apache helicopter fleets
The US Defense Department awarded Boeing a $1,461,384,102 contract to support foreign military sales of the Apache AH-64D/E
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20 DecemberAfrica
Sudan government and Revolutionary Front rebel coalition agree to extend ceasefire
A coalition of rebel groups and the Sudanese government have signed an agreement to extend their fragile ceasefire another two months
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19 DecemberMiddle East
Car bomb in Tel Halaf kills 5, latest in Syrian town captured by Turkey from YPG
Turkey's defense ministry announced that a car bomb killed a five civilians in northeast Syria, the latest in a series of deadly car bombings
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19 DecemberEurope
Russian security service member killed in shooting near FSB headquarters
A member of the Russian Federal Security Service was killed in a shootout near the FSB headquarters in central Moscow
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