Military

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  • AOI chief meets Zambian military delegation

    Date: 2016-02-03 10:50:29 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:28 - ID:4240821

    CAIRO, Feb 3 (MENA) – Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Abdel Aziz Seif Eddin received visiting Chief of the Zambian Army Paul Mihova and his accompanying delegation on Wednesday. The two sides held talks on means of ....

  • Hegazy attends military exercise

    Date: 2016-02-02 16:23:08 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:101 - ID:4237673

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. General Mahmoud Hegazy attended on Tuesday a military drill carried out by a unit of the Third Field Army. The Somoud-4 military drill comes as part of an annual plan to train Egyptian ....

  • Sobhy meets Russian trade minister

    Date: 2016-02-02 10:16:51 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:33 - ID:4234257

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - Egyptian Defense Minister Colonel General Sedky Sobhy held a meeting on Tuesday with visiting Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. The talks tackled a host of issues on strategic cooperation and partnership ....

  • Iraqi, US-led warplanes conduct 26 airstrikes on Daesh sites

    Date: 2016-02-01 21:40:19 GMT - Iraq - Military - SN:115 - ID:4231617

    BAGHDAD, Feb 1 (MENA) - Iraqi and US-led warplanes conducted 26 airstrikes against Daesh posts in several districts within the last 24 hours, an Iraqi military statement said Monday. The report added that 10 strikes were launched by the Iraqi air ....

  • 3 Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi

    Date: 2016-02-01 20:40:35 GMT - Libya - Military - SN:110 - ID:4231585

    TRIPOLI, Feb 1 (MENA) – Two soldiers of the Libyan Special Forces were killed when a landmine planted inside a house exploded while a third was killed by a sniper in Benghazi, the special forces spokesman said on Monday. The Libyan army forces - ....

  • 17 Libyan soldiers killed, injured in Benghazi clashes

    Date: 2016-02-01 19:42:11 GMT - Libya - Military - SN:105 - ID:4231497

    TRIPOLI, Feb 1 (MENA) - Seven Libyan soldiers were killed and ten more were injured in clashes with troops of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries during January. The wounded sustained light to medium injuries, said Colonel Meloud al ....

  • UK team deploys to South Sudan to assess peacekeeping commitment

    Date: 2016-01-31 22:24:51 GMT - United Kingdom - Military - SN:133 - ID:4225281

    LONDON, Jan 31 (MENA) - A UK military team deployed to South Sudan to look at what role the UK could play as part of a contribution to ongoing UN peacekeeping, the Ministry of Defense posted on its website. Around 12 UK Armed Forces personnel ....

  • Egypt: Sunken boat, crew not found

    Date: 2016-01-31 20:31:45 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:123 - ID:4224753

    CAIRO, Jan 31 (MENA) – Search operations by the Egyptian army did not succeed in finding an Egyptian fishing boat that sank Saturday off the Sudanese shores or any of its crew members, military spokesman Mohamed Samir said. An Egyptian frigate ....

  • Defense minister meets Air Academy teaching staff, cadets

    Date: 2016-01-31 15:09:14 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:88 - ID:4222753

    CAIRO, Jan 31 (MENA) - Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi met on Sunday with members of the teaching staff and students of the Air Academy as part of efforts to follow up the scientific and military rehabilitation of the students of the military academies ....

  • Egyptian navy unit heads for Msebret island to rescue Egyptian boat

    Date: 2016-01-31 13:55:31 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:76 - ID:4222169

    CAIRO, Jan 31 (MENA) - Upon directives of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi ordered a navy unit to head for Msebret island in the Red Sea to take part in rescuing an Egyptian fishing boat which carries 14 ....

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