A soldier from an Edmonton-based battalion was killed early Monday in southern Afghanistan when insurgents attacked his combat outpost in the Panjwaii district, military officials say.
Master Cpl. Erin Doyle of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is the second Canadian soldier to be killed in combat in three days.
Read more »A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday amid U.S. and Iraqi troops who were investigating an earlier attack. Iraqi police said nearly 20 people died, and the U.S. military said they included one American soldier.
It was the day's worst attack among several that occurred across Iraq, including one at a crowded bus depot in Baghdad that left four people dead.
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Thousands of mourners gathered Thursday in a northern Israeli town to bury the first of two soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
Read more »The family of special forces soldier Signaller Sean McCarthy, killed in Afghanistan last week, has greeted his body on its return to Australia.
Read more »The Israeli government on Sunday, 29 June 2008, approved the outline of the agreement to release the abducted soldiers in Lebanon: Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev along with remains from the Second Lebanon War will be returned, and a report on the disappearance of Ron Arad will be delivered to Israel.
Read more »A tourism company says a South Korean visitor to a North Korean mountain resort was fatally shot by a North Korean soldier.
Read more »A man has been charged with killing a former soldier allegedly attacked on a bus after telling thugs not to swear in front of a lady.
Stan Dixon, 60, had been fighting for life since the attack on Saturday but died in hospital yesterday, police revealed today.
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