DefenceTalkCiting the “huge investments and sacrifices” Americans have made in Iraq, President Barack Obama said today that he has asked his national security team to prepare a range of options to help Iraqi security forces stop rapidly advancing Sunni insurgents who have overrun much of the country’s north, control most of Anbar province and are […]https://www.defencetalk.com/obama-weighs-options-for-intervention-in-iraq-59904/

DefenceTalkPakistan on Monday launched fresh air strikes on the northwest tribal region where it has deployed up to 30,000 troops in a long-awaited offensive to eliminate Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants from their border stronghold. The action in North Waziristan was launched a week after a brazen insurgent attack on Pakistan’s main airport in Karachi which […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-deploys-troops-jets-in-anti-militant-offensive-59894/

DefenceTalkSyria’s army broke a siege of Aleppo prison Thursday, cutting off a major rebel supply route, as Damascus allies China and Russia vetoed a bid to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court. The Western-proposed UN Security Council resolution, which would have covered war crimes committed by both sides in the civil war, comes less […]https://www.defencetalk.com/syria-army-breaks-year-old-aleppo-prison-siege-59690/

DefenceTalkPakistani fighter jets on Sunday launched air strikes on militant hideouts in the northwest, killing at least 38 people, according to officials, in the latest retaliation for attacks by the insurgents that have derailed peace talks. The early morning strikes made on militant hideouts in the Tirah valley of the Khyber tribal district were the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-air-force-strikes-on-militant-hideouts-kill-at-least-38-58847/

DefenceTalkPakistan’s powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Sunday confirmed he will retire next month at the end of his second tenure, ending rumors he would seek to keep a key military role. Kayani, who oversaw Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, will retire on November 29 in a move likely to be seen as […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistans-powerful-army-chief-confirms-retirement-49304/

DefenceTalkMilitary action against the Syrian regime would be a “tragic mistake”, Russia said Sunday, warning the West not to preempt the results of a UN probe into alleged deadly chemical attacks. Moscow warned there was a danger of history repeating itself a decade after the US-led invasion of Iraq, which it opposed, and urged the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-warns-us-against-syria-military-action-48875/

DefenceTalkAlgeria’s army has reinforced its forces along the eastern border with Tunisia, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday, days after the killing of eight Tunisian soldiers. The soldiers were found on Monday with their throats cut after being ambushed by jihadist militants in Mount Chaambi, an area near the border with Algeria. Algeria’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/algeria-army-boosts-forces-on-tunisia-border-minister-48662/