Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN said on Monday that the Admiral Kuznetsov, which the Russians class as a heavy aircraft carrying cruiser, had been en route to Syria.
Reports conflict as to whether Kevin is in the care of a mayor on the island of Basilan, as reported by AFP news agency, or is in military custody, as a military spokesman told AP news agency.
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Another military source told Reuters news agency four people were killed in the shoot-out, including a Frenchman.
"We never discuss special forces or operational matters, " a British military spokesman said, Reuters news agency reported.
On Saturday, Mr Traore called Mr Hollande to thank him for the military intervention, the AFP news agency reports.
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On Wednesday Russia's Interfax news agency quoted military sources as saying Russian combined armed forces had begun scheduled exercises on the disputed islands.
However, a senior Niger military official has told Reuters news agency that the bodies were found away from the scene of the clash, implying that they were probably "executed" before the failed rescue mission.
The plane was a Russian SU-22, the news agency quoted a military official as saying.
At the time, Syria's official news agency reported 15 military personnel were killed in the blast.
Ilya Kramnik, military analyst for the RIA Novosti news agency, says a jointly developed aircraft will differ significantly from the Russian T-50.
In a statement to Reuters news agency, the military wing of Hamas vowed to continue the seven-month old Palestinian uprising against the Israeli forces.
"When the back door opened, I fell down and lots of boxes covered me, " he told Associated Press news agency from a military hospital in the Congolese capital Kinshasa.
Reuters news agency quotes US military officials as saying that pilots are increasingly going after "targets of opportunity" that they spot from the air, such as parked aircraft or troop convoys.
"We have a 10-year programme and it is quite challenging (but) we have very good experience in military co-operation, " news agency AFP quoted Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as saying at the conference.
"Under the situation where a war may break out any moment, there is no need to keep up North-South military communications, " a senior North Korean military official was quoted by KCNA news agency as telling the South before the line was severed.
The Syrian Arab News Agency said that government military forces were conducting operations against armed "terrorist" groups in Damascus.
The African contingent is expected to be bolstered to 7, 900, including 2, 200 troops promised by Chad, AP news agency quotes a Nigerian military official, Col Shehu Usman Abdulkadir, as saying.
Military Spokesman Eli Lazarus told the Reuters news agency that six people were killed in the violence, which happened when "unknown gunmen attempted to attack Potiskum but were repelled by troops".
Investigators are also trying to determine who owns a number of guns that were found at the home, including a semi-automatic military-style rifle, the Associated Press news agency reports.
The US Marine Corps in Okinawa went on maximum alert following the suspected terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the Kyodo news agency said quoting a US military official.
"Now we're talking about a permanent easing, " Israeli military spokesman Maj Guy Inbar told the Associated Press news agency.
"This operation was conducted following a tip-off from our intelligence, " military spokesman Iliyasu Abbah said, quoted by Reuters news agency.
According to Iran's Irna news agency, Gen Shateri was a military engineer during the 1980-88 war with Iraq and later worked in Afghanistan.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported a day earlier that Lebanese military forces seized weapons from Libya bound for Syrian rebels.
Pramote Phromin, a spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command, told Reuters news agency that up to 60 militants wearing military fatigues approached the base at around 01:00 (18:00 GMT on Tuesday).
Russia sold Iran some, according to an official of Russia's Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, who told a Russian state news agency that such a sale wasn't prohibited under United Nations sanctions.
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China's Defence Ministry immediately refuted a report on Monday by Japan's Kyodo news agency that said unnamed "senior Chinese military officials" admitting recently, and for the first time, that a Chinese warship did lock weapons-guiding radar on a Japanese destroyer on 30 January.
Also Thursday, the body of a Palestinian man was found near a military post in the West Bank, reported the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The alleged spy is accused of "passing information related to Indian defence installations and military activities", senior police officer DS Dinkar told AFP news agency.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee in Seoul that the activity signaled an imminent test firing or military drill, according to the semi-official South Korean news agency Yonhap.
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