NetQuantum :: Regional :: Europe :: Ireland :: Government :: Military ::

• U.S. military: 11 killed in Mosul raid
BAGHDAD - Eleven people, including women and children, were killed Sunday after U.S. forces came under attack by gunfire and a suicide bomber during a raid in Mosul, the military said. There were no casualties among American forces. Elsewhere in the ...
• How captivity shaped McCain
In hushed conversations with his fellow POWs four decades ago, he developed firm beliefs about how the United States should use its military power, lessons that he has sought to apply to the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His resistance of ...
• Somali pirates challenge superpowers
If we are attacked we will defend ourselves until every last one of us dies," Sugule Ali, a spokesman for the pirates aboard the Faina, said in an interview over satellite telephone from the ship, which is carrying 33 battle tanks, military weapons ...
• U.S. helicopters collide in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Two U.S. helicopters collided while landing at a base in Baghdad on Saturday, killing one Iraqi soldier and injuring two American troops and two other Iraqis, the military said. The UH-60 Black Hawks crashed at about 8:55 p.m. in a northern ...
• Battle kills 15 Turkish soldiers
ANKARA, Turkey - Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southern Turkey and northern Iraq has killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday, in the deadliest battle between the longtime enemies ...