22 h. ago Billboards telling troops to obey only lawful orders go up near Florida military base

The billboards were launched amid the Trump administration’s lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific

Events

5 d. ago First asylum seekers due at Sussex barracks in weeks as council joins legal action against Home Office

Crowborough military base is understood to be being prepared for 540 male migrants to arrive in the New Year as part of the Government's bid to reduce the use of asylum hotels

Society

5 d. ago First asylum seekers are due in Crowborough barracks in just WEEKS

Ministers and officials are understood to be preparing the Crowborough military base to house 540 male migrants in the New Year.

Events

7 d. ago Seven Colombian soldiers killed in rebel drone attack on base near Venezuela

Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group used drones and explosives in Thursday night attack that also injured at least 30 soldiersColombia’s ELN guerrilla group has attacked a military base near Venezuela with drones and explosives, killing seven soldiers and wounding 30.Founded in 1964 and inspired by the Cuban revolution, the ELN is the oldest surviving guerrilla group in the Americas, and controls key drug-producing regions of Colombia. Efforts to negotiate a peace settlement have repeatedly stalled. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Six Colombian troops killed in rebel drone attack on base near Venezuela

Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group used drones and explosives in Thursday night attack that also injured at least 28 soldiersColombia’s ELN guerrilla group has attacked a military base near Venezuela with drones and explosives, killing six soldiers and wounding more than two dozen.Founded in 1964 and inspired by the Cuban revolution, the ELN is the oldest surviving guerrilla group in the Americas, and controls key drug-producing regions of Colombia. Efforts to negotiate a peace settlement have repeatedly stalled. Continue reading...

Events

8 d. ago Army sergeant to appear before a military judge on charges that he shot 5 people at Georgia base

An Army sergeant charged with attempted murder in the shootings of five people at a Georgia base faces arraignment before a military judge

Events

1 week ago Court backs ruling that UK unlawfully detained Tamils on Diego Garcia

British Indian Ocean Territory commissioner’s appeal against decision last year rejected by judges in LondonAppeal court judges have backed a decision that dozens of asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on one of the world’s most remote islands, rejecting an appeal on Tuesday by the commissioner for the territory.Exactly a year ago, on 16 December 2024, a judge ruled that Tamils who arrived on the island of Diego Garcia, a UK and US military base, after a shipwreck while they were trying to reach Canada to seek asylum, were unlawfully detained there for three years in conditions described as “hell on Earth”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Myanmar military claims armed opposition groups used hospital hit by airstrike as base

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged there was an airstrike on a general hospital in western Rakhine state, which a local rescuer and media reports said killed over 30 people, including patients, medical staff, and children

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2 w. ago Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources

Concerns over recording of meetings at coordination centre excluding Palestinians that was set up to provide support for Trump’s Gaza planIsraeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US forces and allies stationed at a new US base in the country’s south, according to sources briefed on disputes about open and covert recordings of meetings and discussions.The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that “recording has to stop here”. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago WW3 on the brink as jets scrambled due to 'unidentified aircraft' in NATO airspace

Two Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16s took off from Volkel military base on Sunday, December 7, after a Quick Reaction Alert was issued for an unidentified aircraft in Dutch airspace

Politics

2 w. ago NATO fighter jets scrambled as mystery aircraft enters Dutch airspace

Royal Netherlands Air Force fighters were deployed from Volkel military base on Sunday after the Ministry of Defence sounded the Quick Reaction Alert when an aircraft entered Dutch airspace

Politics

2 w. ago Warplanes scrambled after 'unidentified aircraft' enters NATO airspace

Two Royal Netherlands Air Force fighter jets took off from Volkel military base on Sunday after an aircraft entered Dutch airspace without identifying itself in a Quick Reaction Alert

Events

2 w. ago Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront

Events

3 w. ago Harry Dunn's mum gives emotional reaction after Foreign Office failings exposed

Charlotte Charles told the BBC said there is "comfort" in "knowing that going forward things should change" after an independent review found officials did not treat her son's death outside a US military base case as a crisis

Events

3 w. ago Foreign office failings over death of teen motorcyclist Harry Dunn laid bare by independent review

FOREIGN Office failings over the death of teen motorcyclist Harry Dunn were laid bare by an independent review yesterday. Officials did not treat the crash outside a US military base case as a crisis and withheld information from his family, it found. US state department employee Anne Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of...

Events

3 w. ago Town set to host 600 asylum seekers spends £450,000 on Pooh's birthday

A town fighting plans to house 600 single male asylum seekers on a nearby military base is angry £450,000 is being spent on Winnie-the-Pooh celebrations, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Economics