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1 day ago · The Iraqi force had abandoned substantial quantities of arms and equipment; the British garrison gained six Czechoslovakian-built 3.7 inch howitzers along with 2,400 shells, one 18-pounder gun, one Italian tank, ten Crossley armoured cars, 79 trucks, three 20 mm anti-aircraft guns with 2,500 shells, 45 Bren light machine-guns, eleven Vickers ...
- 2–31 May 1941
- Kingdom of Iraq
- Allied victory
1 day ago · Cold War; Part of the post-World War II era: Clockwise from top right: Checkpoint Charlie, 1970; A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune flying over a Soviet freighter, 1962; George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign agreements to end chemical weapon production 1990; Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989; Prague Spring and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968; the Berlin Wall at the ...
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10 hours ago · However, the campaign has lost momentum, with the government-allied forces struggling to hold rural areas and al Shabaab continuing to stage large-scale attacks, including in the capital Mogadishu. Washington suspended some defence assistance to Somalia in 2017 after the military was unable to account for food and fuel.
6 hours ago · Today, I followed the Peskov statements and immediately found The Defense Post story, which did not simply report the actual game but justified it. The big "pitch" in the story by West Point graduates First Lieutenant Dean D. LaGattutais and First Lieutenant Jordan D. Teevens is all about the "rejuvenation of the nation's defense industrial base."
1 day ago · Across Africa the powerful new force of nationalism drew upon the advanced militaristic skills that natives learned during the world wars serving in the British, French and other armies. It led to organizations that were not controlled by or endorsed by either the colonial powers nor the traditional local power structures that had collaborated ...
6 hours ago · There were also rumors that outspoken Pershing Square hedge fund boss Bill Ackman and "Shark Tank" multi-millionaire Kevin O'Leary would place a bid. Unfortunately for these deep-pocketed aspiring TikTok owners, ByteDance appears to be staying true to a comment from China's Commerce Ministry last year, which said that it's strongly opposed to ...
1 day ago · Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is the port city of Abidjan.
