unconfirmed report of isis leader baghdadi captured by syrian and russian army
more to come if confirmed

N. Korean soldier shot while defecting to S. Korea

A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side Monday while defecting to South Korea at the border truce village of Panmunjom, the South's military said.

The soldier, thought to be low ranking, was shot in the shoulder and elbow and was picked up bleeding on the South side of a portion of the border known as the Joint Security Area (JSA).

It is rare for the North's troops to defect at the truce village, a major tourist attraction bisected by the borderline and the only part of the frontier where forces from the two sides come face-to-face.

"Our military has taken in a North Korean soldier after he crossed from a North Korea post towards our Freedom House," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, referring to a building on the South side of the village.

A JCS official quoted by Yonhap news agency said the South's soldiers heard a gunshot and then retrieved the unarmed soldier in the mid-afternoon.

He was evacuated to a private hospital by a UN helicopter, the official added, saying the solider had regained consciousness but declining to comment on whether his injuries were life-threatening.

No personal details have been released but the soldier's uniform suggested he was low-ranking, Yonhap said.

Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/20...hwGRWdO0fFzm.99

damning evidence to a secret deal that allows hundreds of isis fighter and their families to escape raqqa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh...as_dirty_secret

RIP

https://www.lmneuquen.com/desaparecio-un-su...n-jorge-n571378

gj

just their bad luck.. us navy need to summon russian priest

news ady posted in previous page
seems like they are homing in to their satellite calls

This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Nov 19 2017, 03:40 PM

SEMPU Body Contest Competition sempena sambutan Ulang Tahun TNI ke 72 telah berlangsung pada 18 Nov 17 di Sector East Military Police UNIT (SEMPU), Gajah Mada Base, Sektor Timur UNIFIL.

Antara pertandingan yang dipertandingkan adalah Body Contest, Pull Up Competition, Pull Truck and Rolling Tyre Competition, Bench Press Competition dan Squat Competition.

Seramai 7 peserta dari MALBATT telah mengambil bahagian dalam semua acara yang dipertandingkan.

Pelbagai kontinjen turut menyertai pertandingan tersebut antaranya INDOBATT, GHANBATT, CHINBATT, INDBATT dan FCR.

MALBATT telah mendapat tempat kedua dalam acara Body Contest yang dimenangi oleh Able Adam bin Ahmad (Malaysia) dan juga tempat kedua dalam acara Pull Truck and Rolling Tyre yang dimenangi oleh Kpl Abdul Rashid bin Metarshad (Brunei).













https://www.facebook.com/myjointforce/posts/1333116563483410

reports coming in they might have found something, looks like it

different, implosion due to crush depth..

RIP #los44


This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Nov 24 2017, 01:19 AM

a very 90s apc driver cabin feature on a modern 8x8

agilis 8x8 apc

regional cooperation on anti-piracy efforts must be strengthened

they shud have remain surfaced after they reported the initial battery problem, not sure why they gone underwater after that?

if they lose power while underwater then its pretty much game over..

Indonesia urged to end discriminatory virginity test for female security force applicants

JAKARTA: New York based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to order the chiefs of the National Police and Indonesian Military (TNI) to immediately ban virginity testing for female applicants, saying the practice is a form of gender based violence.

The decades old practice that includes a “two-finger” test to determine whether a female applicant’s hymen is intact was degrading and discriminatory, as well as harming women’s equal access to job opportunities, HRW women’s rights advocacy director Nisha Varia said.

“The Indonesian government’s continuing tolerance for abusive virginity tests by the security forces reflects an appalling lack of political will to protect the rights of Indonesian women,” Varia said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Indonesian women who seek to serve their country by joining the security forces shouldn’t have to subject themselves to an abusive and discriminatory virginity test,” she said.

Despite criticism from human rights campaigners, security forces continue to impose the test, classified as psychological examinations, on the grounds that the virginity test was for “mental health and morality reasons”, senior police and military officers told HRW.

All females who took part in the test told HRW that the experience of having doctors inserting two fingers into their vagina to check the level of vaginal laxity was traumatic, painful and embarrassing.

World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines issued in 2014 stated that virginity testing has no scientific validity. The discriminatory practice has also been internationally recognized as a violation of human rights.

The rights group further urged Jokowi to prohibit virginity tests by the Police and TNI, and establish an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure the two institutions comply.

By ending the practice, the Indonesian government would abide by its international human rights obligations as well as honor the goals of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on Nov. 25, HRW said.

“The Indonesian police and military cannot effectively protect all Indonesians, women and men, so long as a mindset of discrimination permeates their ranks,” Varia added. – The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/20...rce-applicants/

hope they got notice "pls duck"


This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Nov 27 2017, 03:15 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M777_howitzer