JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq — Soldiers with the 289th Quartermaster Company, 13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), also known as the Sabers, have their paws full in maintaining the vast missions on Joint Base Balad.These soldiers run the fixed-Mobile Redistribution Team yard, the Container Repair Yard, transportation motor pool […]

A 21-year-old medical student who studied in Sudan and dispensed online advice about Islam and marriage was among four men being questioned on Wednesday by counter-terrorism detectives over a potential plot to attack Britain.Police arrested four men aged 20 and 21 in London on suspicion of being concerned in the “commission, preparation or instigation of […]

Rescuers dicing with choppy seas are searching for 200 asylum seekers after their overcrowded wooden ship sank off Indonesia’s main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been found alive.Two were children, aged eight and 10, found clinging to the debris of the boat five hours after the accident.“It’s really a miracle they […]

A pioneering project to put Dartmoor’s wild ponies on the pill is to begin in Devon later this year.Concerns has been growing for several years about overbreeding among the semi-feral animals, high numbers of which have ended up in horse sanctuaries or slaughtered and the meat sold overseas as their market value has plummeted.The recession […]

The Obama administration today cut all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras over the ouster of president Manuel Zelaya, making permanent a temporary suspension of US aid imposed after he was deposed in June.The state department made the announcement as secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton was meeting with Zelaya. Spokesman Ian Kelly did not say how […]

The first passengers have arrived in Heathrow’s £2.5bn new Terminal 2, landing from Chicago shortly after 5.55am on Wednesday.Only 17 flights, all from the US carrier United Airlines, were due in on Wednesday morning as Heathrow planned a slow, smooth opening to banish memories of the debacle of the opening of Terminal 5 in 2008.Arriving […]

The three Pakistan cricket players under investigation for spot-fixing will play no further part in the rest of the tour of England, the team manager said today.Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will miss the Twenty20 and one-day international series against England, Yawar Saeed said.The players will not be replaced for the two Twenty20 […]

The droughts in Somalia, whose people have been battling a devastating civil war for more than two decades, are the worst in 60 years. There are 3.7 million people in a critical situation, and in some areas there is already full-blown famine, killing thousands every single day. Those most in need are children: the UN […]

Concerns are mounting in Greece that the country could have to deal with thousands of trapped migrants and refugees, after border crossings to Balkan nations to the north were abruptly closed.Macedonia’s decision to prohibit entry to anyone not perceived to be from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq has fuelled fears that the […]

By Keith Anderson16th Sustainment BrigadeCONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE Q-WEST, Iraq — Soldiers from the 30th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, donned their combat patches during a ceremony at Lion Memorial Field, Oct. 18, 2008.The ceremony marked the beginning of a 12-month deployment for the Tennessee Army National Guard unit headquartered in Humbolt, Tenn.“The combat […]