Category: MIddle East

India Kicks off $6.5 Bn Submarine Project With Foreign Help

All six submarines under the $6.5 billion project will be built with assistance from abroad. The Indian Navy has retained the option to “manufacture six more submarines under the project.”

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Africa’s Sahel conflict sees surge in militia killings-group

DAKAR (Reuters) – Africa’s Sahel region has seen a huge surge in civilian deaths in the past five months because of attacks by Islamist militants and ethnic militias, researchers said on Thursday. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), which is financed in part by the U.S. State Department, said it had documented 2,151 reported killings in 724 […]

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