
IS car bomb kills at least 7 in Baghdad
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 6, 2016 - A car bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least seven people near a hospital in central Baghdad late Monday, police said.
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Baghdad (AFP) Sept 6, 2016 - A car bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least seven people near a hospital in central Baghdad late Monday, police said.
Sep 6, 2016

Washington (AFP) Sept 6, 2016 - Seven Iranian military boats harassed a US patrol ship in international waters in the Persian Gulf over the weekend in yet another unsafe and unprofessional interaction, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Sep 6, 2016

Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - BAE Systems Land and Armaments LP has received a $14 million U.S. Army contract modification for support on the Bradley family of vehicles.
Sep 6, 2016

Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - Continental Electronics Corp. has been awarded an $11 million U.S. Navy contract for work on the Fixed Submarine Broadcast System.
Sep 6, 2016

Pascagoula, Miss. (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - The future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John Finn recently completed its alpha sea trials, Naval Sea Systems Command said.
Sep 6, 2016

Orlando, Fla. (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - Lockheed Martin recently delivered the 2,000th Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, or JASSM, to the U.S. Air Force, the company announced Tuesday.
Sep 6, 2016

Adelaide, Australia (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - Rockwell Collins debuted its new combat helmet-mounted Integrated Digital Vision System for troops on Tuesday.
Sep 6, 2016

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2016 - In a vision shared by innovators, entrepreneurs, and planners in both defense and civilian contexts, the skies of the future will be busy with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unseen but central to
Sep 6, 2016

San Diego (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - The U.S. Navy has ordered an engineering stand down for LCS crews following an engineering casualty on the littoral combat ship USS Freedom, the sea service announced Monday.
Sep 6, 2016

Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2016 - Zel Technologies has been awarded a max $165 million Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency contract to research and develop counter-IED technologies.
Sep 6, 2016

Hangzhou, China (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that there had been some alignment with US counterpart Barack Obama over Syria after talks in China, insisting the two sides could reach a deal soon.
Sep 5, 2016

Moscow (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - Russia on Monday launched large-scale military drills on Ukraine's eastern border and around the Crimean peninsula, in the latest exercises set to rattle Kiev and the West.
Sep 5, 2016

Seoul (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - The UN Security Council will convene Tuesday to discuss North Korea after the isolated communist state test-fired three ballistic missiles into the sea as world leaders met at the G20 summit in China.
Sep 5, 2016

Hangzhou, China (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - From the moment Barack Obama touched down in China, his last G20 summit seemed likely to be a tricky one.
Sep 5, 2016

Hangzhou, China (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - New British leader Theresa May sought Monday to start shaping her country's post-EU access to world markets, but faced a Japanese warning over the fallout from Brexit while the US said London was not its priority.
Sep 5, 2016

Hangzhou, China (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - China's leader Xi Jinping and Japan's Shinzo Abe sought to reset their countries' troubled relationship Monday at their first meeting in over a year, with the Japanese prime minister calling China an important friend.
Sep 5, 2016