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With the Eritrean defenses in crisis, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki fired his chief of staff and ordered the ERAF into the air to intercept the Ethiopian air raids at all costs. On 25 February, an Eritrean MiG-29 piloted by Yonas Misghinna scrambled from Asmara to intercept an ETAF Su-27SK piloted by Lt-Col. Gebre-Salassie north of Mekelle ...
Six explosions in Asmara during the night of 28 November were reported by United States State Department, although the reason was not immediately clear. [7] Diplomats based in Addis Ababa told Agence France-Presse that the explosions were caused by rockets, which apparently struck the Asmara International Airport and Eritrean military facilities.
Beilul (Ge'ez: በይሉል, romanized: Bäylul, Arabic: بيلول, alternatively, Beylul) formerly known as Baylour is a small cape town in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. Beilul was the historical main port ruled by the Kingdom of Dankali and as a point of communication between the Ethiopian Empire with the outside world.
The bitter border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, once a single nation, played out far from the global spotlight. ... It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again ...
Ethiopia Eritrea Independence War 1961–1993; Eritrean War for Independence; Comparative Study Between Yemeni-Eritrean Ways of Documentation in Arbitration Over Red Sea South Islands 52 - Yemen Times December 27 through January 2, 2000, Vol IX; Connell, Dan Eritrea-Ethiopia War Looms, Foreign Policy in Focus 21 January 2004
After a series of armed incidents in which several Eritrean officials were killed near Badme, [4] on 6 May 1998, [5] a large Eritrean mechanized force entered the Badme region along the border of Eritrea and Ethiopia's northern Tigray Region, resulting in a firefight between the Eritrean soldiers and a Tigrayan militia and the Ethiopian police they encountered.
This is a list of conflicts in Eritrea arranged chronologically from the early modern period to the present day. This list includes: colonial wars , wars of independence , revolutions , civil wars , riots , massacres , terrorist attacks , and any battles that occurred within the territory of what is today known as the, " State of Eritrea " but ...
The Eritrean Air Force was established shortly after Eritrean War of Independence in 1994. It was first established by Commander Habtezion Hadgu, who used to be an Ethiopian Air force pilot during the Derg regime, and later defected in the late 1980s to the Eritrean People Liberation Front (EPLF), during the Eritrean War of Independence.