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A former elite soldier charged with murder for allegedly killing an unarmed man in Afghanistan was released on bail Tuesday by a magistrate who concluded he would face danger from Muslim extremists in prison. Oliver Schulz, 41, had been…
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An Australian former soldier was arrested Monday over allegations that he murdered a man while deployed in Afghanistan, part of a long-running investigation into war crimes. The arrest comes more than two years after a damning internal…
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Sudan’s military accused Ethiopia’s army of executing seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian who were captives, the Sudanese armed forces said in a statement on Sunday. The Sudanese army also accused Ethiopia of displaying the bodies of…
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Fighters from the Iran-backed Houthi militia have openly boasted of recruiting child soldiers as young as 10 to fight in the Yemen war. New video footage on social media shows dozens of children in uniforms standing in military formation…
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Romania asked NATO to deploy more of its forces for a longer term, talking about 5,000 soldiers. Chisinau-Sputnik. Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said on Tuesday that his country needs NATO to deploy more troops than 5,000…
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Russia’s defense ministry said Wednesday more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in Mariupol, a strategic port city in eastern Ukraine that has been besieged by Moscow’s troops for over a month. “In the city of…
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The Belarusian military is pushing Middle Eastern asylum seekers who have been trapped in the country for months to cross into war-torn Ukraine, asylum seekers have reported. Dozens remain stranded in Belarus after they were brought in…
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The Bolivian soldier who pulled the trigger for the execution of Argentine revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara, died at the age of 80. The retired Bolivian general, Gary Prado, said that the soldier who fired the bullet that killed…
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A Lebanese army soldier was arrested on Tuesday over the fatal knifing of a dentist for reportedly failing to stop his fiancee’s tooth pain following treatment at his clinic. Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces said the soldier stormed…
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Daesh gunmen attacked an army barracks in a mountainous area north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 11 soldiers as they slept, Iraqi security officials said. The officials said the attack occurred in the Al-Azim district, an open area…
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