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Three Venezuelan air force generals accused of plotting a coup against the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro were arrested, amid a widening crackdown on the opposition.

• 26 марта 2014, 16:32

Vietnam's top leaders gathered early Saturday to pay their last respects to independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died last week at 102, as his state funeral began in Hanoi.

• 13 октября 2013, 21:25

A court sentenced the teenage son of a Chinese general to 10 years in jail for gang rape on Thursday, court authorities said, after his trial threw a spotlight on the lives of China's elite.

• 26 сентября 2013, 11:31

Top US military officer General Martin Dempsey has clashed with Secretary of State John Kerry over the merits of bombing Syria's regime at a White House meeting.

• 20 июня 2013, 13:24

A "reset" in US-Russia relations is now on pause and Moscow likely will be "the primary actor of regional concern".

• 13 апреля 2013, 10:00

The United States on Thursday nominated General Philip Breedlove, a veteran pilot in Europe, as the top commander of NATO a month after Afghan war supremo John Allen stepped aside.

• 29 марта 2013, 17:44

Norman Schwarzkopf, the US general who led Operation Desert Storm, which liberated Kuwait from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1991, died on Thursday at the age of 78.

• 28 декабря 2012, 18:22

The sex scandal that has brought down CIA chief David Petraeus may be causing heartache in the Washington security establishment but the affair has prompted laughter among the Taliban.

• 16 ноября 2012, 13:28

A group of militarymen were awarded with Kazakhstan state decorations on the Defender’s Day.

• 07 мая 2012, 21:05