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“at least 150 paratroopers to protect its military facilities in the north of Kyrgyzstan.”
“Thirteen people were killed when soldiers from the Parachute Regiment opened fire on marchers during a civil rights march in Derry on 30th January, 1972.”
“L/Cpl Andrew Breeze, 31, of the 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment”
“A total of 295 UK military personnel have died in Afghanistan since 2001.”
“And Defence Secretary Liam Fox said: "I was saddened to learn of the death of L/Cpl Andrew Breeze, who had earned his place as a highly valued member of The Mercian Regiment during 14 years of dedicated service to the armed forces."”
“has been chief of the defence staff since 2006”
“last sort of 12 years or so”
“last three years”
“Some 295 British service personnel have died in Afghanistan since military operations there began in 2001”
“Some 32 Nato troops, including three Britons, have been killed since last Sunday”
“A total of 295 UK military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.”
“Army bomb experts defused a "viable" mortar bomb close to the police station in February.”
“Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas's military wing, was found dead in a Dubai hotel on 20 January.”
“the controversial investigation into the deaths of four young soldiers at Deepcut Barracks.”
“The Parry's son, Tom, is an officer with 2nd Battalion the Rifles, who spent a tour in Sangin in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, last year”
“A Royal Navy warship has returned to Portsmouth after a seven-month deployment to the Falkland Islands and the South Atlantic.”
“Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will freeze the sale of surface-to-air missiles to Iran, according to French officials.”
“the army had shot dead 13 protestors in Londonderry”
“Pte Monk joined the Army aged 16”
“Hamas is also still holding the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a raid by militants in 2006”
“91% of Israelis were in favour of the navy stopping any future attempts to break the sea blockade”
“The sanctions also prohibit Iran from buying heavy weapons such as attack helicopters and missiles.”
“A parade and service will now be held at the grave at St Seiriol's cemetery during Armed Forces Day on 19 June.”
“died in October 1918, aged 24.”
“contributed £250 towards the refurbishing of the badly damaged grave”
“So far this year in this area they say they have destroyed exactly 28,321 marijuana plants and a total of 10,466 poppy plants.”
“In a small field, half an hour by military helicopter from Culiacan, soldiers are uprooting bright green marijuana plants from the soil.”
“On three occasions, the 30-year-old from from Telford, Shropshire, manually defused devices as he tried to clear a path to five wounded soldiers last summer near the Afghan town of Sangin”
“Capt Shepherd relied on his technical expertise and completed over 20 manual approaches and countless fingertip searches to deal with 13 victim-operated devices in 36 hours of unbroken activity”
“There have been French troops in Senegal since independence in 1960”
“France is closing its military bases in Senegal and will pull out all but 300 of its 1,200 troops based there.”
“The BBC's Tidiane Sy says there will be a ceremony on Wednesday with senior army officers present from both sides to see the lowering of the French flag.”
“Another British soldier died on Tuesday, during a gun battle in Helmand. The soldier, from 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, attached to 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, became the 293rd to die since operations in Afghanistan began.”
“There are currently 8,000 British troops in Helmand.”
“My answer to that question is that they have not or have failed to do so too often. Muddling through seems to be the default setting, along with the protection of individual and collective interests. [...] It resulted, I believe, in the up…”
“On Tuesday, UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox said UK troops would stay until Afghanistan was 'stable enough' to ensure internal and foreign security.”
“Nato commanders had discussed moving the UK's forces in Helmand to neighbouring Kandahar province when Canada pulls out its contingent there next year, but Dr Fox said this was 'highly unlikely'.”
“And earlier in the week, Prime Minister David Cameron restated his support for American strategy in Afghanistan during talks with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.”
“Cutting frontline services is not a necessity - it is a political decision being taken by a British cabinet full of millionaires.”
“Gen Fonseka is currently undergoing two military trials and one civilian one but in none of them has he been charged with treason.”
“Gen Fonseka was interviewed by the BBC's Sinhala service a day after the defence secretary described him as a liar and threatened him with execution.”
“During the course of their conversations, Mr Lamo told BBC News, Mr Manning boasted about handing over military videos and 260,000 classified US embassy messages to Wikileaks.”
“Earlier this year, the website published a 2008 Pentagon report that said the site was considered a 'threat to the US army'.”
“That soldier, a 23-year-old man from Scotland who was on a training week at Halton, has since unfortunately passed away," she said.”
“I can confirm that Private Steven Paul Taylor-Murray, a soldier under training from 1st Infantry Training Battalion in Catterick, died at Lancashire Hospital on Friday June 4 2010.”
“Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999 when, as chief of Pakistan's army, he ousted elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a coup.”
“Flt Lt Fortune, from Kingston in Surrey, was on standby duty at the sprawling British base of Camp Bastion in Helmand province on 29 January when the call for help came through. A unit of US marines and Afghan National Army soldiers was en…”
“Russia's defence ministry now says it will pay compensation if the suspects' guilt is confirmed.”
“The Russian prosecutor's investigations office said four Russian soldiers had been charged with "theft carried out by a group with premeditation", according to state media.”
“Three of the four soldiers had previous criminal convictions, including robbery and counterfeiting, the prosecutor's office said.”
“A 23-year-old soldier who was killed in Afghanistan had always wanted to join the armed forces, his former head teacher says.”
“He is also believed to have been involved in a 2008 mortar attack on the US embassy in the capital in which a soldier and a young girl were killed.”
“four people were killed and at least 11 wounded in shelling by the Yemeni army.”
“Members of 40 Commando have deployed the Sharpshooter on the front line in Helmand province for about a fortnight now, the Ministry of Defence said.”
“and each weapon shared amongst three or four soldiers.”
“four policemen and a soldier they have been holding since the late 1990s are still alive.”
“since withdrawing troops and settlers in 2005”
“Six teams from the the Army, Navy and RAF will Kitesurf from Alderney to Poole across the English Channel.”
“Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Friday have been named by the Ministry of Defence.”
“Cpl Webster, 24, from Chester, enlisted into the Army in 2002.”
“According to the peace treaty Egypt is allowed to deploy only 450 soldiers. After 2007, they increased the number to 750.”
“Israel has deported seven activists who tried to sail an aid ship to Gaza in defiance of Israel's blockade. They were among 11 campaigners and eight crew who signed deportation papers on Saturday, after troops boarded their ship the Rachel…”
“Pakistan has announced it is to increase defence spending by 17% in the coming year”
“Defence spending will rise to more than $5bn a year from next month.”
“The Armed Forces Memorial is dedicated to all the service personnel killed in the line of duty since 1948.”
“2009 was the worst year for fatalities in the British armed forces for more than 20 years.”
“Initially, when the Armed Forces Memorial was unveiled in 2007, the names of those killed were carved by computer but over the last couple of years, the names been painstakingly engraved by hand, by stonemason Nick Hindle.”
“General James Clapper, President Barack Obama's nominee for the role of US intelligence chief, is a retired three-star Air Force general and intelligence community veteran.”
“Most recently he has been serving as undersecretary for intelligence in the Department of Defense, a post that he was appointed to by former President George W Bush in 2007.”
“he was pushed out from his job at the Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2006 by then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, after telling Congress that he favoured transferring control of his agency away from the Pentagon.”
“Robert Gates brought him back to the Department of Defense the following year when he took over from Mr Rumsfeld.”
“In his last job before retiring he was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1991 to 1995.”
“After leaving the US Air Force, he worked for six years in the private sector, for companies including Vredenburg, Booz Allen Hamilton and SRA International.”
“The 550-strong battalion”
“five-month tour of Afghanistan”
“lost one of their comrades, Fusilier Jonathan Burgess, from Swansea, during a gun battle with the Taliban on 7 April”
“The Rachel Corrie was 28 nautical miles (52km) off the Israeli coast, the Israel Defence Forces said at 0745 GMT.”
“The Rachel Corrie is named after a US college student who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she protested over house demolitions in Gaza in 2003.”
“Israel has faced a storm of international criticism after its troops shot dead nine people during a violent confrontation on the Turkish Mavi Marmara in the early hours of Monday.”
“He entered the US Army in June 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July last year.”
“The names of those killed have been carved into the Armed Forces Memorial alongside the other 16,000 service personnel who have died since 1948.”
“And Bishop John Kirkham, the former bishop of the armed forces, read A Litany of Remembrance.”
“The Armed Forces Memorial honours personnel killed on duty, or as a result of terrorist action.”
“The latest 119, engraved by stonemason Nick Hindle, include the 41 UK soldiers killed during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan last July and August.”
“Also inscribed are the names of Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar - the two soldiers shot dead outside their barracks in Northern Ireland in March 2009 by dissident republicans.”
“Gen Odierno said he could safely reduce the number of US combat troops in Iraq to 50,000 within three months”
“He said there were currently 88,000 American troops in Iraq, supported by 90,000 contractors”
“While Mr Obama has pledged to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August, up to 50,000 are expected to remain there until the end of 2011 to help train and equip Iraqi forces”
“A coroner has recorded a verdict of unlawful killing on three soldiers who died in an explosion in Afghanistan.”
“the soldiers were part of a 'cordon' set up to provide back-up while members of the Afghan National Army went into the mosque in Sangin on 13 August”
“Vice Adm Bertram Ramsay organised the rescue of more than 380,000 British and French troops trapped on the beaches of northern France.”
“It called a ceasefire in 1994 and last year it claimed to have decommissioned all of its weapons.”
“46 sailors were killed”
“over the sinking of its warship in March”
“Andry Rajoelina seized power in an army-backed coup in March 2009”
“Nine people, mostly Turkish activists, died when Israeli troops stormed a ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza on Monday.”
“Israel says 10 of its soldiers were injured, one seriously”
“It will be inscribed with the names of 14 soldiers killed on operations since the regiment was formed in 1962.”
“Chris Highnam will be joined by injured soldiers on his two-week voyage to Tower Bridge on the River Thames.”
“The team will set sail from Plymouth's Sutton Harbour on 8 July and will be joined by a different member of the armed forces for each leg of the journey.”
