This post was written by CIP intern Benjamin Fagan.
The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week.
Inter American Court of Human Rights
- Peruvian Judge Diego Garcia-Sayan, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH), ...
On Saturday, October 5, United States Special Forces carried out a raid in Tripoli that resulted in the capture of Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, also known as Anas al-Libi. U.S. Army personnel from a three-car convoy pulled up outside of al-Libi’s place of residence and abducted him without any violent struggle. This effort to apprehend rather than kill a terrorist suspect, along with a similar raid in Somalia, marks a...
A roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Central Asia:
- On a visit to Tajikistan, the speaker of Russia's parliament Sergey Naryshkin, reportedly began talks on Russia’s use of the Ayni air base outside the capital of Dushanbe. Naryshkin visited as the lower house of the Tajikistan parliament's ratified an agreement for a land base for Russia's 201st motorized rifle division, and the Russian military wants to use Ayni as an air complement to that land base, according to a ...
Yemen recieves two Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft from the U.S. to be used for surveillance and counterterrorism efforts.
The Global Counterterrorism Forum announces a new fund to combat extremism at the local level.
Last week Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón traveled to seven different Central American and Caribbean countries to discuss security cooperation:...