3 rebels killed as soldiers seize NPA camp in Bukidnon.
Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner said three soldiers were wounded when dozens of troops battled about 60 New People's Army (NPA) rebels in a wooded area near Quezon, Bukidnon before dawn. "Our troops surprised the rebels who scampered to safety, leaving behind a cache of weapons and explosives,"...

Second Circuit upholds convictions of alleged mastermind of 1993 World Trade Center bombing over arguments that the U.S. court lacked extraterritorial jurisdiction over his alleged offenses committed outside United States.
In 1992, Ramzi Yousef and Ahmad Mohammad Ajaj met at a terrorist training camp on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They entered the U.S. in September of that year. Officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) arrested Ajaj at John F. Kennedy Airport when they came across...

NGRAIN Providing Support to Canadian Land, Maritime, and Air Forces Training Programs.
Award-winning 3D equipment maintenance and training solutions deliver results to Canadian Department of National Defence ORLANDO, FL, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- (I/ITSEC) -- NGRAIN, a leading provider of interactive 3D equipment simulations that maximize the effectiveness of training programs and maintenance support systems, today announced it has...

SI2 Technologies Announces DARPA Award for Traumatic Brain Injury Sensor System.
BILLERICA, Mass., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- SI2 Technologies (SI2), a Massachusetts-based conformal and flexible electronic systems company, has announced that it has been awarded Small Business Innovation Research Phase II funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the next generation of helmet-mounted sensors which can...

QinetiQ North America Announces New Orders for TALON Robots and Spares Totaling $58.5 Million.
Awards from Army and Navy Draw on Existing IDIQ Contracts MCLEAN, Va., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ North America, a global developer of innovative technology solutions for national defense, today announced that the Foster-Miller subsidiary of its Technology Solutions Group has been awarded a total of $58.5...

LEBANON - Oct 12 - Army Arrests Suspects In Tripoli Blasts.
Lebanese authorities arrest a "terrorist network" behind deadly bomb attacks in Tripoli. "Several members of a terrorist cell involved in the recent explosions in Tripoli have been arrested", the army said in a statement. The army said an explosives belt was found during the arrest operation carried out by...

Focus On Syrian Moves.
Like most other rulers in the GME, President Assad has fallen into the trip of "hiding behind his finger". As a result of frequently repeating what he says which proves to be untrue, his critics call him a "pathological liar" or a "man never to be trusted". His latest...

Fallen & forgotten: Congress approved the extension of immigration benefits to families of fallen U.S. service members four years ago, but the families say they never received them.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They were two very different families One was from Chandigarh in the northern reaches of India near Kashmir, halfway between the borders of Pakistan and China. The other, from Lagos, the burgeoning former capital of Nigeria on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ...

AFGHANISTAN - Oct 27 - Suicide Bomber In Afghanistan Kills 2 US Soldiers.
A suicide attacker in a police uniform blows himself up inside a police station in the northern province of Baghlan, killing two American soldiers and wounding another, Afghan officials said. An eight-year-old boy was also killed in the blast and five Afghan policemen were wounded. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah...

IRAQ - Oct 29 - Iraq Seeks To Ban US Attacks On Neighbors.
Iraq wants a security agreement with the US to include a clear ban on US troops using Iraqi territory to attack the country's neighbors, the government spokesman said Oct 29, three days after a US raid on Syria. Also Oct 29, Grand Ayat Ali al-Sistani, the country's most influential...