For at least the third time in two years on Monday, prominent Russian official and the head of the country’s consumer rights watchdog, Gennady Onishchenko, sharply criticized the Department of Defense-funded Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tiblisi, Georgia. RIA Novosti reported:
“According to our assessments, this laboratory constitutes an important offensive link in the US military-biological capability,”...
United States Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kabul over the weekend in an attempt to work out a deal on keeping American and allied forces in the country after next year. Kerry worked out a preliminary deal – known as the Bilateral Security Agreement – with Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai that would allow a training force (likely of 5,000 to 10,000 foreign troops) in the country after the current combat mission (totaling about 87,000 troops) ends next year. While the implications for the U.S.-...
Adam talks about the recent troubles of Rio de Janeiro's Favela Pacification Program, the Venezuelan President's quest for decree powers, and politics in Argentina as President Cristina Fernández undergoes brain surgery.
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- The U.S. Department of Defense conducted two special operations raids in Africa: one in Libya, which captured Abu Anas al-Libi, an al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with linked 1988 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The second raid conducted by the U.S. Navy SEALS was designed to capture a Kenyan national, Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, a member of al-Shabab ...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev won reelection on October 9, giving another five-year term to the man who has ruled the country since 2003, when he took over from his father, Heydar. Azerbaijan has been a key regional security partner for the United States, in spite of Congressional restrictions on aid, receiving about $241 million in security assistance from the U.S. since 2000, according to data from Security Assistance Monitor.
In 1992, Section 907 of the ...
Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week:
Egypt: