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A drone attack late Sunday evening that struck a military base in eastern Syria, where U.S. troops are stationed, left at least six allied Kurdish soldiers dead, officials said. The attack hit a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement Monday. According to the statement, the drone attack struck an area where the forces' commando units were being trained. No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the attack, they said. The strike was the first significant attack in Syria or Iraq since the...

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists say a drone attack has been conducted on an oil facility in eastern Syria housing American troops and a U.S. base in a nearby area. There was no immediate word on casualties and the U.S. military didn’t immediately respond to requests for confirmation. Omar Abu Layla, a Europe-based activist who heads the Deir Ezzor 24 media outlet, said that three drones with explosives struck the Conoco COP, +0.90% gas field in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq on Thursday. Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war...

Two armed drones were shot down as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting US forces near Baghdad’s international airport, Iraqi security sources said, adding that nobody was hurt in the incident. An official of the US-led international military coalition stationed there said the base’s defence system engaged “two fixed-wing suicide drones… they were shot down without incident”.

MANAS TRANSIT CENTER Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday handed back its only Central Asian airbase to the government of Russia's close ally Kyrgyzstan, as President Barack Obama winds down U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Moscow makes a comeback in its old imperial backyard. In a move aimed at pleasing its former overlord Russia, parliament in Kyrgyzstan voted a year ago to give Washington until July 11 to vacate the Manas Transit Center, which has served U.S. operations in Afghanistan since 2001. The base, at the main civilian airport in the former Soviet republic, moved more than 5.3...

When losing ground in a war, it’s not unusual to see an enemy make use of one’s facilities and equipment. The report from Eli Lake at the Daily Beast only surprises because the US has insisted that we are not losing ground in the war against al-Qaeda, and still insists that the decapitation of the Moammar Qaddafi regime was sound policy: A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al Qaeda has taken control of a secretive training facility set up by U.S. special operations forces on the Libyan coastline to help hunt down Islamic militants, according to local media...

Threatening lawsuits and protests, opponents are gearing up to fight a decision by Okinawa’s governor that could pave the way for a new U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Friday’s decision, calling it “the most significant milestone” so far in a long-running battle to realign U.S. forces in Okinawa. The new base is designed to reduce the impact of the heavy U.S. military presence in Okinawa by replacing another base in a more congested area, but opponents want the operations moved off Okinawa completely. …

Two explosions were heard near the US Air Force base located near the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Japanese police and US officials reported that remnants of two IED's (Improvised Explosive Device) had been found in the area. No caualties...

A SPANISH High Court prosecutor says six suspected Islamic radicals, arrested in 2003, planned to attack a U.S. military base in southern Spain, the newspaper El Pais said on its website today. The prosecutor is seeking a 32-year sentence for the Algerian accused of leading the group, Mohamed Tahraoui, and 22 years each for the other five, also Algerians. They were among 14 people arrested in Spain in early 2003 on suspicion of belonging to a group of Islamic radicals, believed to be linked to al Qaeda, and plotting attacks in Spain

THOUSANDS of riot police today clashed with local residents, students and activists in South Korea opposed to plans to expand a key US military base. The violent clashes occurred when about 3000 police in full riot gear stormed a primary school compound, where hundreds of protesters opposed to the plan were holed up. The US-South Korean proposal outlines the relocation of dozens of US military bases in Seoul and the surrounding area to Camp Humphreys, in Pyongtaek, 70km south of Seoul. In the clashes protesters hurled rocks and wielded sticks to keep the police at bay, while dozens of civilians...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in front of a U.S. military base in Afghanistan's turbulent southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, wounding a senior Afghan police official and two of his bodyguards, witnesses said. The explosion ripped through a car carrying General Salim Khan on a road in front of a base of the Provincial Reconstruction Team of the U.S. military in Kandahar city, they said. The bomb appeared to have been planted on a speed bump and detonated by remote control, witnesses said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but southern Afghanistan is gripped by violence led...

<p>PISA, Italy -- A group of protesters demonstrating at possible war against Iraq forced their way through the perimeter fence of a U.S. military base in central Italy.</p> <p>The protesters, who broke off from thousands of demonstrators marching peacefully in front of the U.S. Camp Darby base on the coast of Tuscany Saturday were swiftly forced out of the base by Italian police, witnesses told Reuters.</p>

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen fired a rocket into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, then fled over the Pakistani border with helicopters in pursuit, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The rocket was launched from a truck on Tuesday near the town of Lwara, said Capt. Alayne Cramer, a spokeswoman at the U.S. military headquarters at Bagram Air Base. At least three men were seen fleeing in the vehicle and were pursued by U.S. attack helicopters until the truck crossed the border into Pakistan, Cramer said. U.S. forces did not pursue the men into Pakistan. Cramer didn't know if the...