Hpa-An is the latest to be caught in a dragnet that’s already ensnared an estimated 100,000 young recruits over the past two-and-a-half years – many of them via coercion, extortion and abductions. “Security forces track young people’s movements to arrest them, force them into service under the pretext of statutory military eligibility, extort money through
The U.S. Army found many systemic breakdowns that led to last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., and recommended numerous steps the military should take to prevent future tragedies. Families of some of the 67 people who died have been pressuring the Army for months
The former U.S. Army officer convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in December in what would be the first military execution in more than 65 years. The announcement stunned an attorney who had represented Nidal Malik Hasan in a
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders were aware of the findings before signing a $16.7 million contract
For much of Tigray’s modern political history, it has been governed by the TPLF, which first emerged as an armed movement in the 1970s fighting Ethiopia’s military government. It became a major force in the overthrow of the Marxist regime in 1991 and went on to become the most powerful component of the Ethiopian People’s
A humanitarian source in Afar told AFP news agency on Thursday that Tigrayan forces had launched heavy artillery attacks as they attempted to take control of the town of Yallo, near the border with Tigray. “We are in the situation of full-blown war now,” TPLF vice-president Amanuel Assefa is quoted by the news agency as
