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The US government has announced that military training will be provided to 600 Ukrainian national guards in March.

The new development was revealed a day after US President Obama announced his support for the diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine. 

Jordan said Feb. 8 it destroyed 56 targets in three days of strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after it murdered one of its pilots, and is determined to destroy ISIL.
      

A parliamentary commission has approved a key amendment making the consent of the prime minister or related minister obligatory for the prosecution of soldiers who commit alleged crimes in the course of engaging with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Defense Minister Nikos Dendias (photo) on Wednesday awarded 42 members of the Hellenic Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard for their contribution to rescuing passengers from the Norman Atlantic passenger ferry which caught fire off the coast of Corfu on December 28, killing at least 12 people.

The Montenegrin Army's air force does not have adequate equipment or enough capacity to control the country's skies, even though airspace protection is one of the priorities Podgorica's NATO integration process, the Centre for Democratic Transition watchdog claimed.

The air force of Libya's internationally recognised government said Monday that it carried out a deadly weekend air strike on an oil tanker in the Islamist-held eastern port of Derna.
      
The air force opened fire "after the crew refused to heed orders to stop for a search operation" spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mesmari said, describing the tanker as "suspicious".
      

Italian sailors on Jan. 2 managed to take control of a crewless merchant ship as it drifted toward the country's southern shores in rough seas with 450 migrants on board, in the second such incident in two days.
      

Iraqi forces backed by Sunni tribes advanced into the town of Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad on Dec. 28 in a new attempt to push out Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), officials said.

In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from ISIL, but the jihadists later launched a counter-offensive and were able to seize ground they had lost.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on Sept. 24 shot down a warplane from the U.S.-led coalition over northern Syria, a monitoring group said, with the jihadists claiming to have captured a Jordanian pilot.

BELGRADE - The Order of the White Eagle (Class 2), which Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic granted to the air force and air defense, was given to Ranko Zivak, the commander of this service branch of the Serbian Armed Forces, on Monday evening.