Tag: Soldiers

El Salvador deploys 1,000 cops, 7,000 soldiers to rural province in massive gang crackdown

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El Salvador sent about 8,000 soldiers and police officers to comb the rural province of Cabañas for street gang members Tuesday, in one of the most massive raids since President Nayib Bukele declared a crackdown on the gangs in March 2022.

About 1,000 police and 7,000 soldiers fanned out across Cabañas province to set up checkpoints on all roads leading in or out. The raid followed a weekend shooting attack on a police patrol vehicle that wounded two officers.

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Niger soldiers claim to have overthrown president – EURACTIV.com

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Soldiers claim to have overthrown Niger’s government following an apparent coup in the West African nation on Wednesday (26 July) when members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum.

Members of the elite guard sealed off access to the president’s residence and offices in the capital Niamey, and after talks broke down, “refused to release” him, a presidential source said.

The soldiers said “all institutions” in the country would be suspended, borders were closed and a curfew imposed “until

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Military in Niger Announces Coup After Soldiers Detain President

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Military officers in the West African nation of Niger ousted the country’s president on Wednesday, they said in an address on national television, throwing into uncertainty the future of one of the West’s few reliable partners in a region marred by coups and widespread insecurity.

Army officials representing different branches of Niger’s military, which has received support from the United States and France, among others, said they had “put an end to the regime” of President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger,

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Niger soldiers announce military coup on national television | World | News

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Soldiers in Niger have announced a military coup has taken place on national television.

The group said they have dissolved the country’s constitution and closed the borders. Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been held by troops from the presidential guard since early on Wednesday.

Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, has conveyed Washington’s “unwavering support” during a call to Mr Bazoum, the BBC understands.

While UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also said he had spoken to the president and

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Soldiers Attempt Coup in Niger, Its President’s Office Says

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Soldiers from the presidential guard of Niger blockaded the presidential palace and attempted a coup in the West African nation on Wednesday, according to the Nigerien president’s office and news reports.

The fate of the country’s president, Mohamed Bazoum, was unclear, although the presidency said that he was safe.

“Early this Wednesday morning, elements of the Presidential Guard engaged in an anti-Republican mood movement and tried in vain to obtain the support of the National Armed Forces and the National

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The Unseen Soldiers of America’s Privatized Wars

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Russian soldiers ‘shaking with fear’ at UK decision to supply Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles

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Russian soldiers will be ‘shaking with fear’ at the UK’s decision to supply Ukraine with Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles amid Kyiv’s upcoming counteroffensive, a retired US Army Colonel said today. 

Gian Gentile, who served two tours in Iraq, said the deadly missiles will be catastrophic for Russia’s war efforts as they will allow Ukrainian troops to hit Russian soldiers and command centres deep into Moscow-held territory in eastern Ukraine.

Gentile, the associate director of think tank RAND’s Arroyo Centre

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Army IDs 9 soldiers killed in crash involving Black Hawk helicopters

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The U.S. Army on Friday identified the nine soldiers killed in a crash involving HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters flying out of Kentucky’s Fort Campbell.

Maj. Gen. JP McGee, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), said the deaths “will reverberate through our formations for years to come.”

“Now is the time for grieving and healing,” he added. “The whole division and this community stand behind the families and friends of our fallen soldiers.”

ARMY BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS CRASH, KILLING

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‘I Live in Hell’: The Psychic Wounds of Ukraine’s Soldiers

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Inside a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv, the mental trauma of the war is written on every soldier’s face.

Voices From Pavlivka

Photographs by Antoine d’Agata

Text by Ellen Barry

It’s been a month since “the tragedy,” as he calls it. When the subject arises, he freezes and looks at the floor. He gulps for air. He cannot say it.

His doctor, a motherly woman, speaks for him: There were four of them. They were stationed near the front line, in

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John Wayne machte John Ford am Set von The Horse Soldiers wütend, das von einer Tragödie geplagt wurde | Filme | Unterhaltung

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Bereits 1959 tat sich John Wayne mit seinem langjährigen Mitarbeiter und Hollywood-Konservativen John Ford zusammen, um den einzigen vollständigen amerikanischen Bürgerkriegsfilm des Filmemachers zu erstellen. Duke und sein The Horse Soldiers-Co-Star William Holden konnten jeweils satte 775.000 US-Dollar (heute fast 8 Millionen US-Dollar) aushandeln, plus 20 Prozent des Gesamtgewinns. Das war zu dieser Zeit eine unerhörte Summe, aber von letzterem würde es keine geben, da der Film eine Kassenbombe mit einer „glanzlosen“ Reaktion von Kritikern und Publikum war. Was diesen

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