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Commander of the Bulgarian Air Force, Major General Rumen Radev, who had submitted his resignation earlier on Thursday, withdrew it after a conversation with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Borisov familiarised himself with the problems of the Bulgarian Air Force, which were pointed as the motives behind the resignation of General Radev.

Russian lawmakers voted unanimously to let President Vladimir Putin send Russian troops to Syria, paving the way for open Russian intervention in Syria.

However, the Kremlin said Russia will only use its air force and not ground troops.

U.S. aircraft and about 300 Air Force troops have begun arriving at a military base in Turkey to provide search and rescue capabilities for the fighting in Iraq and Syria.
     
Pentagon officials said there will be a number of Pave Hawk helicopters and search-and-rescue versions of the C-130 transport plane stationed at Diyarbak?r Air Base in southeast Turkey.
     

The Russian parliament on Sept.30 unanimously granted President Vladimir Putin the right to deploy the country's military in Syria, a move a top Kremlin aide said related only to the air force. 

Following the ruling not to prosecute in the investigation concerning the incident that resulted with the death of 34 citizens at Uludere, the families of the victims filed an objection to the Air Force Command Military Court. 

This objection, despite the dissenting vote of the chief judge, was rejected by two lower ranking military judges. 

Tara Ruby, a former Air Force servicemember remembers a time when there weren’t lactation rooms for nursing mothers in the military. She would sneak into bathrooms and empty offices to nurse her newborn. When the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso opened a lactation room, the woman who is now a photographer, gathered ten mothers breastfeeding in uniform to celebrate!

The Israeli military said Sept. 3 its air force had attacked a Hamas military position in the Gaza Strip overnight from which gunfire had hit homes in southern Israel.

Serbia will buy two Russian helicopters for a total of USD 23.5 million - considerably less than previously agreed, according to a Belgrade-based daily.

Turkey will again push for a no-fly zone over northern Syria to protect civilians fleeing both Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and Syrian government forces, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has told the BBC.

Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YA?) convened for its regular annual meeting on Aug. 3 to discuss appointments and retirements of high-ranking staff officers and generals in the Turkish Armed Forces, as well as for the removal of military personnel from the army.