Pakistani Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has been removed from office over a newspaper leak that sparked a rift between the army and the government earlier this month, the prime minister's office said on Saturday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan pledged to overhaul the army in response to last week's failed coup, a sign that a newly imposed state of emergency would be used to press on with a purge that has alarmed the West.
A total of 104 coup plotters were killed after a bid to bring down the Turkish government, the acting army chief said on Saturday. He also said many army commanders were taken by the coup plotters to "unknown locations".
Four Hungarian army explosives experts were killed in eastern Hungary on Friday after a device on a former military shooting range detonated while being made safe, officials said.
The Iraqi army stormed to the southern edge of Fallujah under US air support yesterday and captured
The trial opened on Monday of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head while he was lying on his back.
Quick-thinking medical staff in Norway saved a patient's life by calling in an F-16 fighter jet to whisk live-saving medical equipment from one hospital to another, media reports said Friday.
Biggest government operation in area since truce; little hope for breakthrough at Geneva peace talks
An Israeli soldier was detained Thursday after allegedly shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head and killing him as he lay on the ground, the army said.
Rescuers searched Wednesday for 10 soldiers feared buried in an avalanche in India's remote Himalayas near the de facto border with Pakistan, an army spokesman said.
Brazil is mobilising more than 200,000 troops to go “house to house” in the battle against Zika-carrying mosquitoes, blamed for causing horrific birth defects in a major regional health scare, a report said.
Eleven former members of the elite Burkinabe presidential guard which staged a brief but failed coup last year were arrested after a raid Friday on an arms depot near the capital, the army said Sunday.
