Troops

RIMANEWS-Most of Australian troops in Afghanistan will return home and their main military base at Tarin Kowt in Afghanistan will be closed by the end of this year, Defence Minister Stephen...

RIMANEWS-An al-Qaeda affiliated group has claimed responsibility for carrying out an ambush that killed 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraq guards state employees in Iraq's...

RIMANEWS-President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded the southeast of Damascus with air strikes and artillery on Wednesday to try and dislodge rebel fighters who have gained a foothold in...

RIMANEWS-Thousands of mourners rallied on Saturday at funerals for Sunni Muslims shot by troops in demonstrations against Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Troops on...

RIMANEWS-French troops advanced cautiously toward northern Mali on Sunday amid fears of ambush by al Qaeda-linked fighters, while its fighter jets pounded the Islamists' strongholds in the desert...

RIMANEWS-French aircraft pounded Islamist rebels in Mali for a second day on Saturday and neighboring West African states sped up their plans to deploy troops in an international campaign to...

RIMANEWS-Troops in Mali have exchanged fire with Islamist armed groups that have been occupying the country's vast northern desert for nine months and appear to be pushing further...

RIMANEWS-One of the Special Operations troops involved in the raid to free an American doctor from the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan died of his wounds today.

“I was deeply...

RIMANEWS-A top al-Qaeda commander in North Africa has urged the people of Mali to reject foreign intervention as a way of solving the country's conflict.

"To the great and...

RIMANEWS-Uganda has threatened to pull its peacekeeping troops out of Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after a UN report accused it of backing M23 rebels in the...