Two major and several smaller U.S. military trainings are ongoing in Africa, while the United States condemned human rights abuses by security forces in Sudan and Burundi. Read about this and other security related news in Africa in the past week:
The Defense Department handed over equipment to Tajikistan’s drug enforcement agency this week, while members of Congress continue to push the Obama Administration to hasten Georgia’s NATO integration process. Below is a roundup of these stories and some of the other top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Top news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus:
Here is a striking exchange from yesterday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Northern and Southern Command. At about the 46 minute mark, the commander of all U.S. military forces in the Americas (excluding Mexico) says that, “...
Georgia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan saw notable increases in the amount of aid they got from United States Department of Defense (DoD) programs in 2011 and 2012, according to data recently released to Security Assistance Monitor.
The Section 1209 reports, which detail DoD security assistance programs around the world from ...
This post was compiled by WOLA Intern Mia Fasano.
- Argentina has seen an ...
This week the Obama administration cut aid to Colombia and Mexico in its proposed budget for FY2015, El Salvador's police chief said the gang truce was technically done and Colombia's military was rocked by more scandals. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region over the past week.
- On Tuesday, the White House released ...