Defence in the Media: 8 September 2016

...full article can be read here. The Daily Express also reported that US Secretary for Defence Ash Carter reaffirmed the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom....
...full article can be read here. The Daily Express also reported that US Secretary for Defence Ash Carter reaffirmed the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom....
...is further reporting today after North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb. The Guardian and The Times write that the United Nations security council has threatened new punitive...
...Jordan, a key Arab member of the US-led coalition against ISIL. Comments made in a short televised address by Jordan’s King Abdullah II in which he called Kasasbeh’s killing an...
...of a wider international strategy, involving a coalition of more than 60 countries, including the US, Arab and European nations. The UK government is also providing £59.5 million in humanitarian...
It’s reported on broadcast outlets today that Amnesty International has accused Kurdish fighters in Iraq of crimes relating to the alleged displacement of Arab citizens and the demolition of homes....
...is close to being hemmed in by US-backed Kurdish militias and allied Arab forces that have seized large areas of territory in recent weeks. The paper reports that the town...
...Davis said on Friday that a “very small number” of military personnel has in recent weeks been working with Yemeni and Arab Coalition forces to push al-Qaida in the Arabian...
Items of relevance to defence in the media today include reports that an ‘alliance’ of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters has begun a campaign to drive Daesh militants from land...
...allowance. SYRIA The Guardian (p17) reports that the Daesh stronghold of Manbij, in northern Syria, has fallen to allied Arab and Kurdish fighters, who freed more than 2,000 hostages held...
...initial operation to retake Raqqa from Daesh after a US-backed Kurdish and Arab force said it has begun an operation to capture the city, billed as Daesh’s "capital" in Syria....