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'We're Hitting Back Very Hard': Top Israel General To NDTV On Hezbollah
Brigadier General Effie Defrin, spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), told NDTV that Hezbollah's decision to resume fire roughly 10 days ago set off the current escalation, and that Israel had no intention of stopping.
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3 Myanmar Brigadier Generals Sentenced To Death For Surrendering Town
Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three brigadier generals who surrendered with hundreds of troops and handed over a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP on Monday.
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Sniper Shoots Dead Top Myanmar Army Official In Helicopter
Four members of the Myanmar security services including a brigadier-general were shot dead by sniper fire on Monday as their helicopter prepared to land, a military source told AFP.
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Highly Unusual: American General Sentenced To Confinement At Guantanamo Bay
A U.S. military judge, in a highly unusual move, has ordered a Marine Corps general confined to his quarters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, fallout from a legal dispute in which the general refused to comply with the judge's orders.
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ISIS-Claimed Suicide Bombings Kill 35 In Iraq: Officials
Suicide bombings at checkpoints in Baghdad and south Iraq claimed by the ISIS killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens more, officials said on Saturday.
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2 Militants Killed In Northern Sinai: Egypt Military
Egyptian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir says the military has pursued and killed two "terrorist elements" and injured another in northern Sinai, where Egyptian forces are battling an insurgency by a local ISIS affiliate.
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Saudi-Led Coalition Says Yemen Ceasefire Has Begun
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said today that a ceasefire had begun at noon (0900 GMT) as scheduled.
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Bomber Kills 2 Iraq Generals as Islamic State Advances in Syria
A suicide bomber killed two Iraqi generals today in Anbar province, a key battleground against the Islamic State group, as the jihadists made gains in northern Syria.
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Historic Marine base gets first-ever female general
For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South Carolina's Parris Island.Brigadier General Loretta Reynolds, who is also known as the first female Marine to ever hold a command position in a battle zone, takes charge on Friday at the installation south of Beaufort.Parris...
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Singapore appoints Sikh as its Army chief
Singapore has appointed Brigadier General Ravinder Singh as its next Army chief, the first Sikh in 30 years to be given the force's baton.Singh, 41, takes over from Major-General Chan Chun Sing on March 25, Straits Times reported.A Singaporean of Indian origin, Singh, is currently Deputy Secretary (Technology) at the Defence Ministry. He joined the...
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Iran test-fires supersonic missile
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards test-fired a supersonic ballistic surface-to-sea missile on Monday. The missile, called Persian Gulf, is capable of hitting warships and targets within a 300-kilometre range and has a warhead with 650 kilogram of explosives. Chief Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafa...
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'We're Hitting Back Very Hard': Top Israel General To NDTV On Hezbollah
Brigadier General Effie Defrin, spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), told NDTV that Hezbollah's decision to resume fire roughly 10 days ago set off the current escalation, and that Israel had no intention of stopping.
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3 Myanmar Brigadier Generals Sentenced To Death For Surrendering Town
Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three brigadier generals who surrendered with hundreds of troops and handed over a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP on Monday.
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Sniper Shoots Dead Top Myanmar Army Official In Helicopter
Four members of the Myanmar security services including a brigadier-general were shot dead by sniper fire on Monday as their helicopter prepared to land, a military source told AFP.
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Highly Unusual: American General Sentenced To Confinement At Guantanamo Bay
A U.S. military judge, in a highly unusual move, has ordered a Marine Corps general confined to his quarters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, fallout from a legal dispute in which the general refused to comply with the judge's orders.
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ISIS-Claimed Suicide Bombings Kill 35 In Iraq: Officials
Suicide bombings at checkpoints in Baghdad and south Iraq claimed by the ISIS killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens more, officials said on Saturday.
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2 Militants Killed In Northern Sinai: Egypt Military
Egyptian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir says the military has pursued and killed two "terrorist elements" and injured another in northern Sinai, where Egyptian forces are battling an insurgency by a local ISIS affiliate.
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Saudi-Led Coalition Says Yemen Ceasefire Has Begun
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said today that a ceasefire had begun at noon (0900 GMT) as scheduled.
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Bomber Kills 2 Iraq Generals as Islamic State Advances in Syria
A suicide bomber killed two Iraqi generals today in Anbar province, a key battleground against the Islamic State group, as the jihadists made gains in northern Syria.
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Historic Marine base gets first-ever female general
For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South Carolina's Parris Island.Brigadier General Loretta Reynolds, who is also known as the first female Marine to ever hold a command position in a battle zone, takes charge on Friday at the installation south of Beaufort.Parris...
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Singapore appoints Sikh as its Army chief
Singapore has appointed Brigadier General Ravinder Singh as its next Army chief, the first Sikh in 30 years to be given the force's baton.Singh, 41, takes over from Major-General Chan Chun Sing on March 25, Straits Times reported.A Singaporean of Indian origin, Singh, is currently Deputy Secretary (Technology) at the Defence Ministry. He joined the...
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Iran test-fires supersonic missile
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards test-fired a supersonic ballistic surface-to-sea missile on Monday. The missile, called Persian Gulf, is capable of hitting warships and targets within a 300-kilometre range and has a warhead with 650 kilogram of explosives. Chief Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafa...
