Tag: Military and defense
Escalating violence ups pressure for Myanmar sanctions
BANGKOK — The escalation of violence in Myanmar as authorities crack down on protests against the Feb. 1 coup is raising pressure for more...
S Korea, US scale back drills over virus, N Korea diplomacy
<p>SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean and U.S. militaries are scaling back their annual exercises this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Escalating violence ups pressure for Myanmar sanctions
<p>BANGKOK — The escalation of violence in Myanmar as authorities crack down on protests against the Feb. 1 coup is raising pressure for more...
Greece to increase army service amid tension with Turkey
ATHENS, Greece — Greece will introduce an increase in military service for conscripts serving in the army from nine to 12 months, starting in...
US says it will reduce detention of immigrant families
HOUSTON — U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum, part of a...
Greece to increase army service amid tension with Turkey
<p>ATHENS, Greece — Greece will introduce an increase in military service for conscripts serving in the army from nine to 12 months, starting in...
US says it will reduce detention of immigrant families
<p>HOUSTON — U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum, part of a...
Iran: Militants attack Revolutionary Guard unit in southeast
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An armed separatist group in Iran’s restive southeast assaulted a vehicle carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard paramilitary force...
Pentagon report cites threat of extremism in military
WASHINGTON — Domestic extremist groups pose a serious threat to the military by seeking to recruit service members into their ranks and, in some...
Thailand probes Facebook’s removal of army-linked accounts
BANGKOK — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says he has assigned the Royal Thai Army to investigate after Facebook Inc. removed 185 accounts and...