Last Minute News Topics

Posts Tagged ‘commander’

AP – North Korea announced Saturday that Kim Jong Un has been officially named supreme commander of the military, further strengthening his authority after the death of his father, longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

North Korea hailed Kim Jong Il’s son as “supreme leader” of the 1.2-million strong military, ramping up its campaign to install the young man as the nation’s next leader even as the mourning for his father continued a week after his death.

View full post on NYDN Rss Article only

AP – Blending solemn tradition with joyous reunion, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq returned home to U.S. soil Tuesday, greeted by his wife and his president in an understated ceremony to mark the end of a nine-year conflict that has defined a generation.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

AP – The Libyan rebels’ military commander was killed by his comrades while in custody after he was arrested by the opposition’s leadership on suspicion of treason, witnesses said Friday, in a sign of disarray that posed a major setback for the movement battling Moammar Gadhafi.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

AP – The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of the chaos that plagued the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

AP – President Barack Obama’s top general in Afghanistan has given him a range of options for withdrawing American forces as a July deadline for starting the drawdown approaches. And an early hint of some troops cuts began to emerge Thursday.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

AP – An al-Qaida commander who escaped a U.S. prison has urged Libyans to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi’s regime and establish Islamic rule.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories