http://www.globalsecurity.org Reliable Security Information from GlobalSecurity.org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/gslogo5.png http://www.globalsecurity.org http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-presstv01.htm Afghan lawmakers say President Hamid Karzai should not allow the country's enemies to have any place in the presidential palace. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-arnews01.htm The 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 'Allons' deployed to Paktika Province, Afghanistan in early January. The 'Allons' Battalion is the organic artillery battalion under the 2nd Brigade Combat Team 'Commandos' (2/10 SFAB), 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, N.Y. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-arnews02.htm The 2/10 Security Forces Assistance Brigade deployed several U.S. Army medical personnel as part of the Security Force Advisory Teams in support of Operation Enduring Freedom 13. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-rianovosti01.htm Russia has decided to leave a prototype T-90S battle tank in Lima, Peru, for trials by the Peruvian military, following its participation there in the SITDEF Peru 2013 arms exhibition last week, Russian state arms corporation Rosoboronexport said on Sunday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-rianovosti02.htm Russia is ready to develop jointly with Turkey a long-range air defense complex based on S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, state arms seller Rosoboronexport head Sergei Ladygin said on Sunday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-rianovosti03.htm A group of Russian military observers will carry out two inspection missions over the United States under the Open Skies Treaty between May 19 and June 3, the Russian Defense Ministry said. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-cna01.htm Taiwan will regularly review the results of a series of punitive measures against the Philippines after Manila failed to meet Taipei's demands over the handling of the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman, Foreign Minister David Lin said Sunday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-cna02.htm Taiwan and the Philippines have agreed to cooperate on an investigation into the death of a Taiwanese fisherman at the hands of Philippine coast guard personnel, and the two sides are working out the details of the arrangement, Foreign Minister David Lin said Sunday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-presstv02.htm The military in Nigeria has intensified its campaign against the militants in the country's northeast to retake the seized territories. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-voa01.htm An advisor to Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan says the government is encouraged by the progress of the ongoing military offensive against the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-voa02.htm The Nigerian military says it has killed 14 Boko Haram militants and arrested 20 others. The military says three soldiers died in the fighting Sunday and another is missing. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-rferl01.htm Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is 'acting' to prevent Syrian weapons reaching Lebanon's Hizballah and will continue to do so. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130519-voa03.htm Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart Sunday discussed efforts to resolve a decades-old border dispute between the world's two most populous countries. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/syria/2013/syria-130519-presstv01.htm The Syrian army continues its operations in the central province of Homs to clear the town of al-Qusayr of the foreign-backed militant groups, Press TV reports. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/syria/2013/syria-130519-presstv02.htm The United Nations has warned that the number of Syrian refugees could double and reach three million people by the end of this year if the unrest does not end. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/syria/2013/syria-130519-rianovosti01.htm Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed on Sunday that he had discussed Iran's possible involvement in a conference to resolve the war in Syria, when he met his US counterpart John Kerry early in May. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/syria/2013/syria-130519-rianovosti02.htm The Syrian army opened up a huge offensive on Sunday against rebel forces on four fronts, Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadin reported. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2013/dprk-130519-rianovosti01.htm UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday he was concerned over North Korea's latest short-range missile launches and called on Pyongyang to return to six-party talks on its controversial nuclear program. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2013/dprk-130519-rianovosti02.htm North Korea launched on Sunday another short-range missile, a day after firing three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, Yonhap news agency reported, referring to South Korea' Defense Ministry. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2013/dprk-130519-unnews01.htm Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern about provocations and tensions on the Korean Peninsula following reports that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched short-range guided missiles into the sea on Saturday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2013/dprk-130519-voa01.htm North Korea fired its fourth short-range missile in the past two days into waters off its east coast on Sunday, despite calls for restraint from South Korea and other countries in the region, as well as the United Nations. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2013/iran-130519-irna01.htm Minister of Defense and Logistics of Armed Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi will manufacturing line of advanced anti-aircraft system on Monday, IRNA reported on Sunday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2013/iran-130519-irna02.htm Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano said the agency stands ready to settle Iran's nuclear dossier. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2013/iran-130519-irna03.htm President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that the Islamic Republic of Iran should play a role in global management. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2013/iran-130519-presstv01.htm Iran's Guardian Council Spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei says the supervisory body might approve as many as 40 presidential hopefuls for the June 14 election. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2013/intell-130519-presstv02.htm US diplomat Ryan Fogle, who was accused of spying for the CIA in Moscow, has left Russia, Russian television has reported. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2013/intell-130519-presstv01.htm French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country is in talks with the Unites States and Israel to purchase surveillance drones in a bid to enhance its military capabilities. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2013/space-130519-rianovosti01.htm The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite has landed in the Russian Orenburg Region near the border with Kazakhstan, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various microorganisms and plants back to Earth after their month-long flight, Mission Control said on Sunday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2013/space-130519-voa01.htm Excitement has been growing in recent months over the approach of Comet ISON. Like other comets, this chunk of rock and ice is following a long, elliptical orbit around the Sun, and like other comets, when it nears the Sun later this year, its trailing stream of dust and vapor will catch the sunlight and become a long, luminous, tail. Many 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/syria/2013/syria-130518-rianovosti01.htm The United States' top military officer and leading US lawmakers on Friday criticized Russia's delivery of advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to the Syrian government, as first reported by The New York Times. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-voa03.htm Thousands of elderly Kenyans are awaiting reparations for colonial-era abuses as their lawyers enter the final stages of negotiations with the British Foreign Office. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-cna01.htm President Ma Ying-jeou said Saturday that an ongoing row between Taiwan and the Philippines over the May 9 shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters should be resolved as soon as possible, emphasizing that a joint investigation is needed, according to Garfie Li, spokeswoman of the Presidential Office. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-cna02.htm Taiwan has been aggressive in making its case to the global community in its dispute with the Philippines over the recent killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine Coast Guard personnel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Saturday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-nns01.htm Guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), with a crew of approximately 300 Sailors, anchored in Shimoda, May 16 to participate in the city's 74th annual Black Ship Festival. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-rianovosti01.htm Peru is interested in buying 700 Kamaz trucks and a new batch of Mi-8/17 helicopters from Russia, as well as testing the T-90S tank that is currently on display at a defense technology exhibition in Lima, the head of Russia's delegation to the show said on Saturday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-rianovosti02.htm Russia will actively seek new deals on the Latin American arms market, which it expects to reach a value of $50 billion in the next ten years, the head of a Russian Technologies (Rostec) high-tech state corporation delegation said on Saturday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130518-arnews01.htm Representatives from across the Afghan National Security Forces attended an update brief at the Operations Coordination Center - Regional East at Forward Operating Base Thunder May 13. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2013/05/mil-130517-nns02.htm The Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) has begun touch and go landing operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) May 17. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2013/iraq-130517-arnews01.htm The Army completed a significant milestone in helping to maintain stability in Iraq now that the U.S. military have departed from that theater of operations. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2013/space-130518-rianovosti01.htm Russia's new super-heavy class Angara carrier rocket will be delivered to the Plesetsk space center for further testing by June, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2013/space-130518-rianovosti02.htm Russia and France will carry out seven Soyuz-ST carrier rocket launches from the Kourou space center in French Guiana by the end of 2014, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2013/intell-130518-rianovosti01.htm Russia's decision to publicly identify a purported top US spy in the country is an "unprecedented" move in relations between Moscow and Washington with no clear indication of how the United States will react, former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and security experts told RIA Novosti on Friday. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2013/intell-130519-rianovosti01.htm Ryan Fogle, the man Russia's security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the United States, left Russia on Sunday, NTV television reported. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/rok/2013/rok-130518-rianovosti01.htm North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the waters off its eastern coast on Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing its country's Defense Ministry. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2013/dprk-130518-cna01.htm President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday urged North Korea to exercise self-restraint and not fuel tensions in the region after Pyongyang launched three short-range missiles earlier in the day. 2013-05-20T02:04:16Z