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Northrop Grumman awarded $255 million contract for 3 MQ-4C Triton drones

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $255 million contract for the production of three MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles for…

Fergus Kelly

US-led Coalition in Iraq and Syria acknowledges 16 more civilian deaths, bringing total to at least 817

The U.S.-led Coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq acknowledged 16 more civilian deaths in air or artillery strikes, increasing…

Staff Writer With AFP

India’s Advanced Air Defence missile system destroys target ballistic missile in test

India's indigenously developed Advanced Air Defence missile system successfully intercepted a target ballistic missile in the third test of the…

Fergus Kelly

Nigeria says US agrees sale of 12 A-29 light attack aircraft in $593 million deal delayed by Obama

Nigeria's air force said the United States agreed to sell 12 A-29 Super Tucano aircraft, re-activating a deal stalled by…

Fergus Kelly

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes kill 68 Yemen civilians in a single day – UN

68 Yemeni civilians were killed in two air raids by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, the UN humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen…

Staff Writer With AFP

US airstrike against al-Shabaab in Somalia kills four and destroys a car bomb, Africom says

A US airstrike in Somalia targeting al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab killed four people and destroyed a car bomb, the US military’s…

Fergus Kelly

ISIS moves with ‘impunity’ in Syria regime-held areas – Coalition

The US-led Coalition accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of allowing ISIS jihadists to move through territory he controls "with impunity."

Staff Writer With AFP

US air strike targeting Al Shabaab kills 13 in Somalia

The United States carried out an air strike on Christmas Eve against the Shabaab Islamist group that left 13 dead.

Staff Writer With AFP

Russia’s Strategic Missile Force tests perspective armament for Topol ICBM

A combat team of the Russian Strategic Missile Force test-fired on Tuesday an RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile.

Anna Varfolomeeva

Syrian rebels reject Russia-led peace initiative

More than three dozen Syrian rebel groups have rejected a Russian-led initiative for talks next month in Sochi on ending…

Staff Writer With AFP