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UK Chinook helicopters in Mali ‘fully operational’

Three RAF Chinook heavy lift helicopters are now fully operational and are supporting French counter-terrorism operations in Mali, the UK…

Fergus Kelly

The wiretapping that changed the Cold War

God and Spies author and former US Navy diver G.M. Matheny talks to Sonya Swink about Ivy Bells, the operation…

Sonya Swink

Gunmen attack Afghan intelligence training center in Kabul

Gunmen launched an attack on an intelligence training center in Kabul, officials said, a day after a suicide bomber killed…

Staff Writer With AFP

PKK leader in Sinjar killed in Turkish airstrike

Turkey carried out an operation in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq, which the armed forces said killed PKK leader Zeki…

Joanne Stocker

Students killed in suicide bombing at Kabul education center

Dozens of people were killed when an explosion at an education center rocked a minority Shiite area of western Kabul

Staff Writer With AFP

Taliban kill dozens of Afghan soldiers in overnight attacks

Taliban insurgents killed dozens of Afghan soldiers in overnight attacks in Baghlan and Zabul provinces, bringing the number killed in the…

Joanne Stocker

Lockheed awarded $480 million more for hypersonic missile development

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $480 million contract to develop a new hypersonic missile for the US Air Force, the Department of…

Fergus Kelly

Russian-made electronic warfare systems present in Ukraine, OSCE says

The OSCE said for the first time it had spotted Russian-made weapons in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine, despite the…

Staff Writer With AFP

Lebanon army receives 8 Bradley Fighting Vehicles from the US

Lebanon received eight M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles from the United States, the army said in a statement 

Fergus Kelly

Six dead in Burkina Faso ‘terrorist’ attack near Boungou gold mine

Six people, five of them police, were killed in a "terrorist" bomb and gun attack near a gold mine in…

Staff Writer With AFP