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The Liaoning aircraft carrier has reached Hainan military base and we will continue to monitor its progress," a senior Taiwanese military official told Reuters on condition of anonymity

DPRK defence committee vice-charman stripped of all military ranks and dismissed from all posts for "inconceivable crimes"--KCNA.

ROME: A military operation to catch migrant traffickers begins Wednesday, with European warships patrolling international waters in the Mediterranean to arrest smugglers dubbed the "mafia of the sea". The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced last month that EUNAVFOR MED, an operation launched to dismantle the network of smugglers abetting the migrant boat crisis, was to enter its second phase.

The US military's highest-ranking general in the Afghanistan War, General John Campbell, has acknowledged that Pakistan Army's effective and indiscriminate operation has pushed terrorists to the wall. Watch this report on the army general's written testimony in US Senate Armed Services Committee. Story first published: 7th October 2015

The vice chief of Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Marshal S B Deo, is understood to have accidentally shot himself in his thigh. He was rushed to a military hospital in Delhi where he underwent a surgery. His condition is stable. However, there was no official comment on the incident from the IAF.

US military chiefs insist they will not change their operations despite a move by China to scramble fighter jets to monitor American and Japanese aircraft in Beijing's newly declared air defence zone.

For the past month and a half, the Pakistani military has claimed success in retaking the Swat Valley from the Taliban, clawing back its own territory from

Pakistan's home ministry on Saturday said they were not immediately lifting a travel ban on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who suffered a heart problem on the way to his treason trial earlier this week.

Tapachula, Mexico - Samuel Isai Mejia's problems began last year with workplace sexual harassment, but things quickly snowballed from there. Facing intimidation from police and military forces as well as gangs, he fled Honduras this year. Mejia is from a dangerous area of La Lima, a city 16km southwest of San Pedro Sula, in northwestern…

GENEVA: The MSF charity demanded Wednesday the opening of an international fact-finding investigation into a deadly US air strike on a hospital it was running in the Afghan city of Kunduz. "We cannot rely on an internal military investigation," Doctors without Borders chief Joanne Liu told reporters, insisting that an "international humanitarian fact-finding commission" should probe the attack.

LAHORE: Military personnel have taken control of 248 polling stations set up for by-elections in NA-122 and PP-147, Samaa reported. The personnel would remain deployed inside and outside the polling stations during by-elections to be held tomorrow (Sunday). Arrangements have also been finalized under supervision of army in the constituency.

earth ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Monday directed military for immediate relief and rescue efforts as a major earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale caused widespread damages, Samaa reported. "Army troops directed to carry out immediate rescue work in any affected areas without waiting for formal orders," Director General ISPR, Major General Asim Bajwa said on Twitter.