Anti-aircraft Artillery

An Iraqi army plane crashed during a reconnaissance flight near the city of Kirkuk on Wednesday and its three crew went missing, a high-ranking military source said, blaming a "technical problem".

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday staged another air strike in the north, carrying out a long-range artillery barrage, local residents and officials said. Residents in Vavuniya, 256 kilometres north of the capital Colombo, said they saw anti-aircraft fire illuminating the night sky while huge blasts were also heard in the de facto frontier...

An Iraqi army plane crashed during a reconnaissance flight near the city of Kirkuk on Wednesday and its three crew went missing, a high-ranking military source said, blaming a "technical problem".

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday staged another air strike in the north, carrying out a long-range artillery barrage, local residents and officials said. Residents in Vavuniya, 256 kilometres north of the capital Colombo, said they saw anti-aircraft fire illuminating the night sky while huge blasts were also heard in the de facto frontier...