The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday (7) as soaring tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbour Venezuela prompted the UN Security Council to call an urgent meeting
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1943 – World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy
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Armed clashes erupted in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Sunday (26) in what the government said was an attack on a military armoury, as it imposed an immediate national curfew
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An ethnic minority armed group in Myanmar has seized control from the country's ruling junta of a lucrative border crossing to China, local media and a security source said Sunday (26)
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A woman rings a bell outside a makeshift church of wood and tarpaulin, calling the faithful to worship and a respite from war in eastern Myanmar's Kayah state. 
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Three boats filled with more than 500 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia's westernmost province on Sunday (19), a UN agency said, in one of the biggest arrivals since Myanmar launched a military crackdown on the minority group in 2017
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The ninth edition of a joint military exercise between India and Sri Lanka commenced on Thursday (16) in Pune, which will focus on achieving an enhanced level of interoperability among the troops, officials said
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Palestinians said deadly salvos on Friday (10) hit hospitals and a school where desperate civilians in Gaza City have sought refuge from intense combat that has sent many thousands fleeing
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Another sobering lesson of Sri Lanka’s past is that disregarding the rules governing armed conflict, far from protecting “our” communities against “them”, can end up leaving almost all non-combatants less safe as well as damaging what is…
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Israel said Tuesday (31) its forces battled Hamas inside Gaza overnight and struck 300 targets after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically ruled out a ceasefire as a "surrender" to the Palestinian militant group
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