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Over 26 killed as blasts rip through Brussels airport, metro
22 Mar 2016
Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, was in lockdown mode after multiple blasts rocked the airport and the subway station, leaving more than two dozen dead and over 130 others wounded
N Korea tests missile capable of hitting Japan
18 Mar 2016
The missile was launched from north of the capital, Pyongyang, flying across the peninsula and into the sea off the east coast early Friday morning
Blast in Peshawar government bus kills 15
16 Mar 2016
N Korea’s Kim Jong-Un orders nuclear test
15 Mar 2016
N Korea’s Kim Jong Un urges more missile tests
12 Mar 2016
India to pare down foreign defence contract payments
12 Mar 2016
India plans to reduce contracts with foreign defence equipment vendors to 30 per cent of the total procurement over the next two years, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday
ISIS defector unmasks thousands of jihadis
11 Mar 2016
A disillusioned Islamic State recruit has made available the contents of a memory stick stolen from the group’s security chief with thousands of names, addresses, and questionnaires for potential jihadis
US airstrike takes out ISIS 'defence minister'
10 Mar 2016
A senior Islamic State commander with a $5-million bounty on his head was targeted and “likely killed” in an airstrike in north-eastern Syria last week, a US defence official said
Iran again tests missiles capable of hitting Israel
10 Mar 2016
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) test-fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday that it said were designed to be able to hit Israel
N Korea claims to have mini-hydrogen bombs
09 Mar 2016
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