Residents of a town near the Turkish border kept up protests against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Friday, despite fears of helicopter gunships or fighter jets swooping from the skies.

Dutch authorities scrambled fighter jets Wednesday after the feared hijacking of an airliner but it turned out to be a false alarm that officials blamed on "miscommunication."

Dutch police said Wednesday that an alert over a feared hijacking of a flight from Spain to Amsterdam which caused fighter jets to scramble was triggered by a "miscommunication."

Switzerland has agreed details of its planned purchase of 22 fighter jets from Sweden, despite a critical parliamentary report on the deal, the defence ministries of the two countries said Saturday.

Iraq expects to receive the first group of F-16 warplanes next year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's spokesman said on Thursday, after US officials said the aircraft would not arrive until 2014.

Brazil's defense industry is booming, fueled by government incentives to modernize the country's armed forces and develop a robust, export-oriented military industrial complex.

The Israeli army has deployed an Iron Dome air defence system, designed to intercept and destroy rockets, days after two rockets were fired at the town of Eilat near the border with Egypt, a military spokeswoman said Monday.

Syrian rebels claimed they had downed a military warplane in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on Monday, after state media said a jet had crashed after suffering technical problems.

A Syrian warplane crashed in the east of the country on Monday after suffering technical problems, state media reported, after rebels claimed they had downed a fighter jet.

Emergency teams on Monday searched for three Ugandan army helicopters feared to have crashed in thick forest in Kenya while flying to Somalia to support forces fighting insurgents there, officials said.

British arms manufacturer BAE Systems on Monday said it had won a contract to upgrade more than 130 South Korean F-16 fighter jets.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that the army was fighting for the nation's future as UN officials said the regime was using fighter jets against rebels armed with tanks.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that the army was fighting for the nation's future as UN officials said the regime was using fighter jets against rebels armed with tanks.

Syria's military has used fighter jets to fire on Aleppo, the country's second city, the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) spokeswoman told AFP on Wednesday.

South Korea has selected defence firm BAE Systems for a $1.1 billion project to upgrade its ageing KF-16 fighter jets, a state agency said on Tuesday.

For over a decade US fighter pilots have become accustomed to "owning the sky" in wars against insurgents who have no air defenses, but now the air force is trying to get back to basics reminding pilots how to fly against a sophisticated enemy.

The Pentagon said Wednesday it plans to send a US air force detachment to Poland to support fighter jets and transport planes, marking the first time that US soldiers have been stationed there.

The US Air Force is "confident" it has identified the problems that led some pilots to complain of dizzy spells and blackouts while flying its most advanced fighter jet, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Pakistani fighter jets bombarded militant hideouts in the country's restive tribal northwest on Sunday, killing more than 10 people, security officials said.

A US military fighter jet crashed into the sea off northern Japan on Sunday and its solo pilot was waiting for rescue at sea after ejecting, the coast guard said.