The Ghana Police Service (GES) has warned the entire populace against the use of X-mas firecrackers during the coming Christmas and New year celebrations. The warning according to the Police, is in accordance with a special law passed in 1999 which banned the use of explosives during festive seasons. Per the Executive Instrument (E. I) … Read more
India will shortly take delivery of two M-777 ultra-light howitzers, manufacturer BAE Systems said Thursday, the country’s first such acquisition in over three decades after a major corruption scandal in the 1980s. The equipment is a part of a $750 million deal New Delhi signed with the US last year to buy 145 howitzers as … Read more
The United States has sent a Marine Corps artillery battery into Syria to help defeat the Islamic State group in Raqa, the capital of their supposed caliphate, a US official said. The official said troops from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit had deployed a battery of 155mm Howitzers to an outpost in Syria. The Marines … Read more
Several rockets fired from inside Baghdad on Saturday struck the capital’s fortified Green Zone area that houses most of Iraq’s key institutions and main embassies, officials said. “Several Katyusha rockets fired from the Baladiyat and Palestine Street areas landed in the Green Zone,” the Joint Operations Command said in a statement. Those two neighbourhoods are … Read more