South Korea Conducts Missile Drills After the North’s ICBM Test
INTERNATIONAL: South Korea's military has said on Thursday,March 24, it had conducted a live-fire test of multiple ballistic and tactical missiles immediately after what it called an intercontinental ballistic missile launch by North Korea.
The test has confirmed the military was capable of a precision strike if needed against the location of any North Korean missile launch and its command system, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) have said.
South Korea put the North's missile maximum altitude at 6,200 kilometres and its range at 1,080 kilometres. That is further and longer than North Korea's last ICBM test in 2017, when it launched a Hwasong-15 missile that flew for 53 minutes to an altitude of about 4,475 kilometres and range of 950 kilometres.
JCS hav added that the latest North missile was launched from near Sunan, where Pyongyang's international airport is located. On March 16, North Korea has launched a suspected missile from that airport that appeared to explode shortly after liftoff, South Korea's military has reported.
Aftermath of Car Bomb That Killed Senior Yemeni Military Leader
A car bombing killed a senior Yemeni military leader and three of his entourage in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday (March 23) , three security sources said.
The defence ministry confirmed that Brigadier General Thabet Gawas was killed in a "cowardly attack carried out by several terrorist elements" but provided no further details.
Gawas was returning from a personal visit when his car was hit by the blast in a suburb of the city, the security sources said. Aden's AIC Television showed footage of a car in flames.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Gawas had long been an enemy of Yemen's Houthi movement, fighting the group in their northern stronghold of Saada even before they ousted the Saudi-backed government from the capital, Sanaa, in late 2014.
He participated in operations that expelled the Houthis from the southern Lahj region in 2015, the year that a Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen against the Iran-aligned movement.
The defence ministry and the head of the separatist Southern Transitional Council, which has vied with the government for control of Aden, each issued statements mourning Gawas.
Pro-Russian Troops Seize Weapons From Ukrainian Forces in Donetsk Region
The Russian Defence Ministry reported on Tuesday (March 22) that pro-Russian self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic units took control over the town of Marinka in the Donetsk region.
Marinka - a small city and the administrative centre of the Marinka area, was previously a fighting position of Ukrainian armed forces according to the Russian defence ministry.
Pro-Russian militants said there was a standoff with Ukrainian forces for the area, adding that they'd captured weapons and ammunition left behind by Ukrainian troops.
Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it called a special operation to degrade its southern neighbour’s military capabilities and root out people it called dangerous nationalists.
Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance, and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in an effort to force it to withdraw its forces.
The conflict has so far displaced nearly a quarter of Ukraine's 44 million people, including some 3.5 million - half of them children - who have fled abroad.
The United Nations human rights office in Geneva said on Tuesday it had recorded 953 civilian deaths and 1,557 injured since Feb. 24. The Kremlin denies targeting civilians.
