UK expels Iranian diplomats

Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced the expulsion of Iranian diplomats and the "immediate" closure of the Iranian embassy in London after the British embassy in Tehran was stormed by "protestors". However it must be stated that this was after the UK had imposed sanctions after...

NATO kills 25 Pakistani troops

A raid gone wrong… An engagement with NATO forces occurred on the 26 Nov 2011, it left 25 Pakistani troops dead on their own soil, the incident supposedly looks like a mistaken identity situation however has erupted fury within Pakistan. It again violates Pakistan’s territory/sovereignty and...

Syria the next Libya?

Looking into the situation that has been occurring in Syria it is hard not to make comparisons on the reasons under which NATO had led attacks against Gaddafi forces in Libya. In this case you have a dictatorship who is attacking his own countries citizens to what appeared to have started as peaceful...

British army upgrading Warrior IFV

The government has announced an upgrade for the ageing Warrior IFV worth approximately £1bn. First put into service in the late 1980′s the Warrior IFV has proven itself in Kosovo, Iraq and is currently still in active military war conditions in Afghanistan. In 2006 BAE System’s trialled new...

Infra-red defeated

It is technology vs technology. BAE Systems have developed technology or surface material called “Adaptiv” a patented technology “based on sheets of hexagonal ‘pixels’”. What the technology does is allow armoured vehicles such as tanks, apc’s or any sort of vehicle...

NOTW closed. News Corp under investigation by the FBI. Resignations ensue.

The headlines are filled with the scandal that took place in the UK. The The News of the World formally closed down on Sunday when News Corporation intervened and Rupert Murdoch ordered the closing of the 168 year old tabloid paper. The last paper to be made by editors of the The News of the World was...

Pres. Obama: US decreasing military in Afghanistan

President Barack Obama has announced to reduce a chunk of the US military presence in Afghanistan. By this year Obama stated in his announcement that 10,000 US troops would return to the US from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. There will also be a gradual decrease throughout the next year to bring...

Britain and France use attack helicopters over Libya says NATO

NATO¹ has confirmed that British Apaches and French Tiger close air support attack helicopters have been used with success according to the pilots over Libya. This comes at a time where NATO has announced that it will extend its operations in Libya for an extra 90 days under Resolution 1973, enacted to the...

Attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden

After the death of Osama bin Laden, by U.S. special forces under closed eye conditions without the permission of Pakistan’s government, the Pakistani Taliban vowed to avenge to the death of bin Laden. It didn’t take long. Today the BBC reported an explosion which took the lives of 80 people with...

Britain sends military advisor’s to Libya

In an attempt to reorganize the rebels in Libya, Britain is sending in military advisor’s to give advice to the rebel organization. The British Foreign Office, issued in a statement: “This deployment is fully within the terms of UNSCR 1973 both in respect of civilian protection and its provision...

LIBYA: NATO urged to do more

NATO has been urged to to go further combat-wise in its military operation in Libya. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary said in an EU meeting in Luxemburg: ”We must maintain and intensify our efforts in Nato. That is why the UK has in the last week supplied additional aircraft for striking ground targets...

Nuclear level raised to that of Chernobyl in Japan

In reference to a report submitted by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency¹ (NISA) the level of nuclear radiation has reached that of levels which are at its peak, level 7, the same rating the Chernobyl disaster was given in 1986. News [Updated]: 9.0 quake and tsunami piles onto Japan However in...

Ivory Coast – France arrests Gbagbo, conflict coming to an end?

In a report by the BBC¹, it has claimed that hundreds of innocents have been killed in the Ivory Coast. It asserted that at least 800 died to which they quoted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The Ivory Coast is in turmoil after the 2010 elections in December which...

Russian forces take down militants in Ingushetia

28/03/2011 – Russia – As armoured vehicles poured into a known strong hold of militants, along with heavily equipped Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB)/Glavnoye Razvedyvatel’noye Upravleniye (GRU) counter terrorism units, helicopter gunships lit the skies with rounds...

The United Nations (UN) and Libya, Western forces on the attack

The UN just recently passed Resolution 1973 on Libya essentially a resolution which allows UN members to protect the civilians of Libya at-all costs. 10 nations of the UN accepted the resolution while 5 nations abstained which included China (PRC), Russia, Brazil, India and Germany. – While the 10...

9.0 quake followed by massive tsunami hits Japan [Updated]

Japan has been hit by a massive Earth Quake which has been followed by an equally massive tsunami which has flooded the North East region of Japan. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the quake at 8.9 at 2:46 local time at a depth of 24 km. Reports have stated that the nuclear power plants in Japan...

North Korea threatens South Korea on propaganda leaflets

North Korea have threatened to launch cross border attacks if South Korea continues to drop leaflets via air which have anti-regime information on them. The North Korean military has labelled these as attacks as “psychological warfare” according to the state run KCNA news agency. Tensions...

Ceasefire breached in the Ivory Coast

In our news reports previously we stated that civil war was a possibility in the Ivory Coast. In 6 years there has not been an outbreak of weapons fire exchange against the two sides of the north and south. According to a UN spokesman speaking to a BBC reporter he stated that there have been clashes in the...

Genocide in Libya [updated]

The Middle East has become a hot topic in what appears to be by media sources uprisings and somewhat revolutions taking place. Yet the more interesting factor is that they are working and this is attributed to the fact that Egypt, a country which was ruled for 30 years by dictator Hosni Mubarak suddenly...

Protests in Iran

Protests have hit the streets of Tehran again and in several other major cities in Iran where similar protests emerged with the election process taking place back in 2009-2010. We saw back then hundreds of thousands of people protesting in major streets and roads all around Tehran. Crowds as large as these...