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CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- South African security ministers have been discussing using the army to help stop a wave of attacks on foreigners, which has left at least 23 people dead. The deployment of troops, which has been demanded by human rights groups and the opposition, coul.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

MSNBC -- The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 12:42pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements. Move seen as rush to make changes before US summit. The Israeli army has ordered the seizure of Palestinian land surrounding four West Bank villages apparently in order to hugely expand settlements aro.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Suicide bombers attacked an army bus and a commercial district in a city near the Pakistani capital on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people, the army and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosions, which injured dozen.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- Pakistan's army says an operation to flush out militants from a mosque in Islamabad is in its final stages - 24 hours after troops stormed the complex. Several loud explosions and gunfire were heard on Wednesday morning. During heavy fighting on Tue.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 1:29pm neoform

Globe and Mail -- Canadian soldier Robert Costall was shot to death from behind in Afghanistan last year by American troops, who opened machine-gun fire on him and then another friendly position during an insurgent attack, a newly released U.S. army report says. Private.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Mon May 28, 2007 @ 10:13am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Senior officials in the PLO and Hamas were yesterday attempting to broker an end to the bloody siege of a Lebanese refugee camp, which began last week when the Lebanese army engaged members of Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-inspired group, after a bank robbe.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- Two transport planes said to be carrying American military aid for the Lebanese army are reported to have arrived at Beirut airport. The move follows an appeal for such aid by the Lebanese government. Its forces are battling Islamist militants who h.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Battered by days of fighting between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army, a steady stream of Palestinians has fled a refugee camp near Tripoli, Palestinian and Red Crescent officials said. Fighting between the Fatah el-Islam group and Lebanese troo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Washington Post -- A department of the Iraqi prime minister's office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively to combat violent Shiite militias, according to U... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Apr 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- A British newspaper reported Thursday that army chiefs were reconsidering their decision to allow Prince Harry to fight in Iraq with his regiment. The Defense Ministry would not confirm the report in The Sun newspaper, saying only that "all operational.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 9:28am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Ike Skelton, a Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives, said: "This new policy will be an additional burden to an already overstretched army. Negative impact "I think this will have a chilling effect on rec.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 1:18pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Medics named one of the dead men as Fuad Mauf, 22, an activist of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). DFLP fighters said they fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the Israeli forces and detonated bombs the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 11:26pm neoform

SF Gate -- For just the second time since the war began, the Army is sending large units back to Iraq without giving them at least a year at home, defense officials said Monday. The move signaled how stretched the U.S. fighting force has become. A combat briga.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:25pm neoform

CNN -- Congo's army restored order to the capital Kinshasa on Friday after two days of heavy fighting with troops loyal to former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, who the government accused of treason. Sporadic shooting continued after dark in the downtown are.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:05pm neoform

Alter Net -- The Bush Administration is increasingly dependent on private security forces to do its dirty work, Jeremy Scahill reveals in his new book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. This article is adapted from Jeremy Scahill's n.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 10:29pm neoform

Time -- The silence is eerie. After opening the U.S. Army's first combat outpost (COP) in Baghdad last month the men of Charlie Company, 2-12 Cavalry, had gotten used to gunfights raging nearby, the crack of bullets passing overhead, and the explosion of rocket-p.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 9:31am mrmdc

Mercury News -- The soldier stands in his living room eyeing all the cool soldier stuff he never got to use in a real war. Such as the helmet with not a single ding and the sleek body armor with not a scuff. The gear piles high on the carpet... Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 4:24pm neoform

Information Liberation -- What is striking about the current debate in Washington - whether to "surge" troops to Iraq and increase the size of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000 bodies are missing from the equation: The number of American forces in Iraq is not 140,000, but.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sun Dec 17, 2006 @ 4:01pm neoform

Independent -- The US Army's highest-ranking uniformed officer has warned that without more men and money, his active-duty force "will break" under the strains of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan... Read More