Afghan Fury at Koran Burning Claims

IWPR 3 weeks ago Region: Afghanistan

A wave of demonstrations has hit Afghanistan over rumours that US forces burned several copies of the Koran. By Abdullah Obaidi in Wardak (ARR No. 343, 26-Oct-09) Protests are sweeping the country in the wake of alle... more

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Coup reported in Bangladesh

India 9 months ago Region: Bangladesh

Bangladesh Rifles soldiers have reportedly couped against their officers in Dhaka.The soldiers have taken many officers as hostages.Heavy gunfire is still being carried out . Some people were killed in excha... more

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Afghan President Asks for More Foreign Soldiers

Mohan Nepali a year ago Region: Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked for more foreign soldiers to combat Talibans in Afghanistan, international media reports say. Known as a leader trained and designed by the US, President Karzai expressed his con... more

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Seven U.S. troops killed in Iraq helicopter crash !

Sumit Agrawal a year ago Region: Iraq

Seven U.S. soldiers were killed when a Chinook transport helicopter crashed in southern Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. military said.   A military spokesman said it appeared mechanical failure was the cause of the crash ... more

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Pentagon To Use Robots In Place Of Soldiers

Nikhil Sundaram a year ago Region: United States

It is the sign of things to come.Slowly what was once fiction is coming into the realm of reality.Robots are gradually making their presence felt in the real world. For example,Pentagon is planning to replace some 30 perc... more

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Diminishing Childhood

Shantanud a year ago Region: India

  There used to be a popular song with the words “Bachpan Ke Din Bhula Na Dena” which many of us loved to hum. That song, evoking nostalgia and angst for times and experiences of a long gone childhood m... more

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Eight security men killed in explosions

Abudlhadi Hairan a year ago Region: Pakistan

Peshawar: Five Pakistani soldiers killed and four wounded in an explosion in North Waziristan tribal area, Thursday morning. Local authorities said that a convey of the soldiers was on its way to Miranshah, center of Wa... more

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Guerilla tactics vs Iraqi insurgents

Al Jeratso 2 years ago Region: Iraq

Looking at the footages of war at international television broadcasts, wherein many of the coalition forces treat the situation like an ordinary war as manifested by their actual combat strategies on the frontline, the sit... more

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Philippine military sends 318 peacekeepers to Haiti, Liberia

Al Jeratso a year ago Region: Philippines

The Philippine government had deployed a total of 318 peacekeepers in the Carribbean and Africa. Of this total, 164 soldiers will going to Liberia and the remaining 154 soldiers are bound for Haiti. Armed Forces... more

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Syria condemns US raid as outrageous crime

Swan Farhad a year ago Region: Bangladesh

Syria accused the United States on Monday of committing an 'outrageous crime' in killing eight civilians during a helicopter attack on a Syrian farm near the border with Iraq. Syria has said four US helicopters assaulted... more

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