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The Indonesian government has set a deadline to build 14 fast missile boats by 2014, Defence Minister Purnomo ...

France insisted Sunday it reserved the right to decide on a possible early pullout of forces from Afghanistan despite ...

The bodies of four French soldiers were flown home Sunday, two days after their deaths at the hands of an Afghan ...

Russia warned Wednesday that a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" with the severest consequences which ...

Two soldiers with the French Foreign Legion serving in Afghanistan were on Thursday shot dead by a man wearing an ...

Iran stands ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq, its armed forces chief of staff said Sunday, a ...

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki headed to Washington on Sunday, for the first time as leader of a country virtually ...

Norway will withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan in 2013, a year before the bulk of NATO`s forces, Norwegian ...

The Seychelles on Friday invited Beijing to set up a military base on the archipelago to beef up the fight against ...

The European Union`s on Sunday condemned the bloodshed in Egypt, where security forces killed at least seven people as ...

Libya`s former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, was arrested ...

ASEAN defense ministers during the sixth regional meeting of the organization`s Political Security Community Council ...

Germany will start to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan at the start of 2012, cutting its contingent to 4,900 ...

A Spanish soldier was shot dead Sunday in Afghanistan after suspected insurgents attacked his unit with small arms ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Sunday defended her country`s involvement in Afghanistan after three troops ...