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Seven US soldiers and a member of the Nato-led coalition have been killed in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan in recent months.
The US has inaugurated its first squadron with both manned and unmanned aircraft, becoming the latest branch of the military to formally integrate drone technology into its operations.
Former US president George W Bush says he remains "comfortable" with the decision to invade Iraq, even in the midst of a new spate of bloody violence in Baghdad.
Israel has been marking Memorial Day from sunset, remembering fallen troops and civilian deaths in terror attacks.
New reports reveal that SA troops are to be sent to a new war in Central Africa - in the eastern DRC against the notorious M23 rebel group.
A Nato helicopter has killed at least one child and nine suspected Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's east.
A suicide bomber rammed a water tanker into a Pakistani check post , killing 17 soldiers in the notorious tribal district of North Waziristan.
The United States and Kabul appear to have reached an agreement on the pullout of coalition forces from a strategic province, nearly a month after an ultimatum from the Afghan president.
A dying US veteran has penned a scathing letter to former president George W Bush and his former vice president Dick Cheney urging the pair to beg for forgiveness for the Iraq war.
At least nine people have been killed when a car bomb exploded at a bus terminal in Iraq's predominantly Shi'ite Muslim south.
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed a brazen co-ordinated attack involving a series of bombings and the storming of a ministry complex in central Baghdad.
At least 116 000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4 800 coalition troops have died in Iraq between the outbreak of war in 2003 and the US withdrawal in 2011, researchers estimate.
A series of early morning attacks hit eastern Afghanistan with three separate suicide bombings in outlying provinces and a shootout between security forces and a would-be attacker in the capital city of Kabul.
A US senator has said an estimated 4 700 people, including some civilians, have been killed in bombing raids conducted under America's secretive drone war, local media reports.
North Korea's prison camps are a closed-off world of death, torture and forced labour, according to two survivors who have likened the horror of the camps to the Nazi Holocaust.
