Marines to Boost Security in Saudi Arabia
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A team of U.S. Marines has arrived in this Red Sea port to assist in security at a U.S. Consulate that came under attack this week by Islamic militants, an American Embassy official said Thursday.
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Firing at attackers through a thick pall of smoke, U.S. Embassy guards from Baghdad and German bodyguards for the Saudi royal family safely escorted their charges through an ambush.
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US forces stepped up security measures at bases across Iraq on Thursday after concluding that a suicide bomber, probably in Iraqi military uniform, was behind Tuesday&#39;s blast at a military base in Mosul.
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Australia's foreign ministry said Wednesday it will boost security spending at its embassies by &#36;452 million after a terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia left nine dead earlier this week.
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The United States will send an additional force of about 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan to help NATO forces combat Taliban militants and to train Afghan security forces, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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British air force helicopters and a bomb disposal team are en route to an oil rig in the North Sea on Sunday, responding to a security incident, a Ministry of Defense spokesman told CNN.
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Saudi security men are deployed December 16 in the centre of Riyadh as the London-based dissident Islamist group Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA) called for protests to seek regime change in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Indonesia has stepped up security at its airports and seaports in response to last week&#39;s attack on the Australian Embassy, said acting Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Hari Sabarno.
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The U.S. plan to send an additional 3,200 Marines to troubled southern Afghanistan this spring reflects the Pentagon's belief that if it can't bully its recalcitrant NATO allies into sending more troops to the Afghan front, perhaps it can shame them into doing so, U.S. officials said.
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Saudi Arabia prepares to host security officials from more than 50 countries for a four-day counter-terrorism conference.
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_ Australia plans to closely monitor ships beyond its territorial waters in a move to boost the country&#39;s defenses against possible terror attacks on its soil and offshore oil and gas facilities, Prime Minister John Howard said
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The U.S. military is planning to deploy about 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan this spring to counter an expected offensive by Taliban insurgents, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday, citing NATO allies' failure to provide additional combat troops.
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering sending some 3,000 additional marines to Afghanistan to boost forces ahead of a Taliban spring offensive, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Australia plans to enforce a maritime security zone more than 1,700 kilometres out to sea, far beyond its territorial waters, in a move to boost defences against possible terror attacks on its soil and offshore oil and gas facilities, Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday.
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Security was heightened Saturday at Saudi Arabia&#39;s embassy in Kuwait after officials suspected a mailed package might have been booby-trapped with explosives.
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Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be provided with top-level security when they visit Pakistan later this month, the Pakistani foreign office has said.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday for a "decisive" assault on the Iraqi cities of Falluja  and Ramadi to crush Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab militants  behind suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages.