The Sri Lankan police said that the AN-24 aircraft crash, which killed 40 Sri Lankan security forces personnel in 2000 in Wilpattu, was due to an LTTE missile attack, although at the time it was believed that the reason for the crash was a technical failure. They said that the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) is to [...]

China will further intensify regular patrols of its sea territory to protect the country’s maritime interests and rights, a senior maritime patrol official said Monday, Chinese media Xinhua reports. “The patrols are part of our long-term, important responsibility,” said Wu Ping, deputy head of China Marine Surveillance (CMS), a government agency in charge of maritime [...]

The area around Murugan Temple at Chavakachcheri has been stirred up with the murder of three Lankan Army soldiers at the temple. But Jaffna sources confirmed this is a clash within the Noonavil SLA camp among Srilankan Soldiers and the bodies were then dumped near the temple. The timing was early morning not in the [...]

Two caches with 43 anti-aircraft missiles and other weaponry have been unveiled in Algeria. Local security forces say the arsenal was smuggled in from Libya and buried near the border. The two caches were found near the town of In Amenas, in southern Algeria on the Libyan border. That is according to Algerian daily El [...]

The head of the Russian Security Council says the country is upgrading its military forces to be better equipped to face modern challenges like terrorism, rather than the global standoff of the Cold War era. Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper asked Nikolai Patrushev about his attitude to a statement by US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, [...]

Kalashnikov have unveiled the latest incarnation of their iconic assault rifle, the AK-47. The company says new generation firearm called the AK-12 combines reliability with precision, and can be used with one hand. ­The factory which developed the new rifle decided to stick with the classic layout of the AK-47, even though it is a [...]

India has chosen France’s Dassault Rafale as the preferred bidder in a hotly contested competition worth as much as $20bn to supply the Indian air force with advanced combat aircraft. The French aircraft has beaten the Eurofighter Typhoon in a bid to equip India with 126 multi-role fighter jets in one of the world’s largest [...]

British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground – and on the quiet – special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters. This is the previously untold account of the crucial part they played. The British campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s regime had its public face [...]