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US lawmakers, UK back Obama on airstrikes against ISIS militants
08 Aug 2014
With targeted air strikes, Obama hopes to halt the militant advance and shift the balance on the battlefield in favour of embattled Iraqi and Kurdish forces
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US enters “limited” war in Iraq with “targeted” air strikes
08 Aug 2014
With targeted air strikes, Obama hopes to halt the militant advance and shift the balance on the battlefield in favour of embattled Iraqi and Kurdish forces
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India puts on hold all defence deals with Italy’s Finmeccanica
06 Aug 2014
Finmeccanica and its group companies are involved in several ongoing defence projects in India, including the supply of Selex radars and communication systems to Navy and IAF
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Germany blocks Rheinmetall defence deal with Russia
05 Aug 2014
Rheinmetall had won a contract in 2012 to build a combat simulation centre in Mulino in the Volga region, 360 km east of Moscow and planned to construct more such facilities in other parts of Russia
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IAF, Army again ground ‘indigenous’ Dhruv copters after fatal crash
04 Aug 2014
The Indian Air Force has grounded its fleet of around 40 ‘indigenously’ developed Advanced Light Helicopters Dhruv in view of the recent crash in which seven IAF personnel were killed
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02 Aug 2014
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India won’t let Pak get away with murder: new Army chief Suhag
01 Aug 2014
India’s new Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag today warned that India's response to any provocation by Pakistan would be "more than adequate; intense and immediate"
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India-US-Japan navy exercise not aimed at China: Pentagon
24 Jul 2014
The war games in the north-western seas, in the area adjacent to the East China, are being held ignoring Chinese objections
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Israel weighs Egypt-sponsored Gaza truce as Hamas rains rockets
16 Jul 2014
The conflict over the past week was prompted by last month’ s murder of three Jewish seminary students in the occupied West Bank over the revenge killing of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem
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Kurdish forces seize 2 north Iraq oilfields
12 Jul 2014
An oil ministry spokesman in Baghdad described the takeover as dangerous and irresponsible and called for the Kurdish forces to withdraw immediately
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Return of Iraq stranded gathers pace; 2,200 await evacuation
07 Jul 2014
About 2,200 Indians in a conflict-free zone in southern Iraq have expressed a desire to return home, and they will be in India in the next 36 to 48 hours
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