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Current Operations

• Operation Inherent Resolve Airstrikes Continue in Syria, Iraq AFPS 05 Apr 2015 -- U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Missile Research Misfires: How the US Spent $10 Bln on Doomed Defense Plans Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- America's Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) was at one point designed to become 'the most powerful radar of its kind in the world', but ended up as a $2.2 billion flop; together with three other unworkable programs launched by the country's Missile Defense Agency, it has left a hole in US homeland defense, according to the Los Angeles Times.
• Tokyo and Okinawa at Loggerheads Over US Army Base Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- The recently elected governor of Okinawa is refusing to bend to the orders of Tokyo authorities seeking to relocate and redevelop the US military presence in the region.
• Rogozin Vows Spaceport to Be Completed Without Any More Corruption Scandals Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has vowed that the construction of Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome will be completed without any further corruption scandals.
• Breaking the Ice: British Sub Suffers $750K in Damage Tracking Russian Ships Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- The British nuclear submarine HMS Talent suffered an estimated £500,000 (about $750,000 USD) in damage to its tower while tracking Russian vessels in the North Sea, Britain's The Daily Mail has reported.

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Other Conflicts

• Saudi-led airstrike leaves 8 dead in Yemen's Sa'ada Press TV 05 Apr 2015 -- Eight people have been killed in a fresh Saudi-led airstrike in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada.
• Yemen's Houthis make new gains in Aden amid Saudi raids Press TV 05 Apr 2015 -- The Ansarullah fighters of Yemen's Houthi movement have made fresh gains in the southern port city of Aden despite ongoing airstrikes by Saudi Arabia.
• Yemen Air Strikes Continue In Spite Of Russia Plea RFE/RL 05 Apr 2015 -- Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on April 5, the eleventh day of a campaign against Iran-allied Huthi forces opposed to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
• Arab Coalition Pounding Houthi-Held Ports, Airfield in Yemen Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- The Saudi-led Arab coalition continued on Sunday to pound Houthi rebels' positions in two strategic port towns in western and southern Yemen, military sources told Sputnik.
• Houthis Seize Aden Administration as Saudi Bombings Rack Up Casualties Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- Houthi militias seized Aden's provincial administration building on Sunday, continuing their advance into Aden. Saudi Arabia plans on seeking a warrant for ground intervention from the UN Security Council.
• Yemeni Rebels Press Attack on Aden, Arrest 120 Rival Islamists VOA 05 Apr 2015 -- Shi'ite Houthi rebels in Yemen have arrested more than 120 members of a rival Islamic Sunni party, even as a Houthi leader has proposed peace talks.
• Yemeni Rebels Make Gains in Aden VOA 05 Apr 2015 -- Houthi rebels in Yemen continue to gain ground in the southern city of Aden Sunday, despite a Saudi-led airstrike campaign.
• Saudi special forces involved in Yemen aggression: Advisor Press TV 05 Apr 2015 -- Saudi Arabian special forces get involved in the kingdom's aggression against its impoverished southern neighbor, Yemen, a senior Saudi adviser says.
• UN agency demands end to Yarmouk fighting, calls for protection of civilians UN News 05 Apr 2015 -- With fighting near Yarmouk intensifying, the United Nations agency concerned with the well-being of Palestinian refugees today made a strong appeal to all armed actors to cease hostilities that place civilians in acute danger and to withdraw immediately from civilian populated areas.
• Refugees in Palestinian Camp in Syria Flee Fighting VOA 05 Apr 2015 -- A monitoring group said fighting between Islamic State and Palestinian militants, as well as shelling by government forces, caused hundreds of residents of a refugee camp near Damascus to flee early Sunday.
• Six troops killed in restive east Ukraine: Military spokesman Press TV 05 Apr 2015 -- At least six soldiers have been killed in two separate violent incidents in Ukraine's restive east, military sources say.

News Reports

• Netanyahu Continues to Press US for Better Deal on Iran VOA 05 Apr 2015 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again urged the United States on Sunday to seek a better deal to curb Iran's nuclear program and said he would press American lawmakers not to give Tehran 'a free path to the bomb.'
• Sanctions to be lifted not suspended: Zarif IRNA 05 Apr 2015 -- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized US for releasing a fact sheet contrary to the joint statement issued after Iran-P5+1 nuclear talks and stressed all sanctions related to Tehran's nuclear program will be "terminated not suspended.'
• Iran top general hails nuclear success in talks with P5+1 Press TV 05 Apr 2015 -- A senior Iranian military official has heaped praise on the country's negotiating team for emerging successful in talks with the P5+1 group in Switzerland, expressing hope that a final agreement would be reached soon.
• Iran Could Resume Full Nuclear Activities RFE/RL 05 Apr 2015 -- Iran's foreign minister says Tehran could resume full nuclear operations if the West withdraws from a pact that is to be finalized in June.
• Better Deal With Iran Achievable With More Sanctions - Netanyahu Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that a better deal with Iran on its nuclear program was possible through ratcheting up sanctions against the country.
• Iran's Nuclear Deal to Incite Arms Race Among Sunni States - Netanyahu Sputnik 05 Apr 2015 -- A comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program between Tehran and the six international mediators will prompt an arms race among the Sunni states and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
• Al-Shabab Gunman Identified as Son of Kenyan Official VOA 05 Apr 2015 -- The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked al-Shabab gunmen who massacred 148 people at Garissa University College.
• Somali President Says Al-Shabab Must be Confronted VOA 05 Apr 2015 -- Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says the Somalia-based al-Shabab militant group is a regional enemy that needs to be confronted.