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This section includes the latest news relating to U.S. security policy around the world. Updated daily, the news provided in this searchable database highlights the most relevant security developments from around the world. 

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New Aid Rules Are an Opportunity to Bridge Security-Development Divide

Monday, March 28, 2016
What is now needed is a thorough analysis of what various U.N. bodies have already implemented and what the U.S. and other militaries are capable of, based on current projects and funding streams. Cross-analyzing development initiatives currently in place that support military programs will better illuminate the potential for joint operations that benefit everyone involved. English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Johan Bergenas
Grace Mahoney
Publisher / Source: 
World Politics Review
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation

Air Force 'Loans' Bombs to Coalition Partners in War on ISIS

Monday, March 28, 2016
The Air Force and coalition partners in the air war against the Islamic State are not only sharing intelligence, runways and strategic plans, they’re also sharing bombs.English
Country(s): 
Global
Author(s): 
Oriana Pawlyk
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Conflict
Terrorism
Military Cooperation

State: $33 Billion in GCC Weapon Sales in 11 Months

Monday, March 28, 2016
The US State Department has facilitated $33 billion worth of weapons sales to its Arab Gulf allies since May 2015, according to department figures.English
Country(s): 
Middle East and North Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Awad Mustafa
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Africa, Arab Defense Ministers Agree Counter-Terrorism Cooperation

Monday, March 28, 2016
Defense ministers and officials from 27 Arab and African states on Friday agreed to bolster cooperation on counter-terrorism, in a meeting held at an Egyptian resort town.English
Country(s): 
Middle East and North Africa Regional
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Wire Service: 
Agence France Presse
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation
Counterterrorism

The Pentagon is Planning to Send More Combat Troops into Iraq

Monday, March 28, 2016
The Pentagon will likely send more troops into Iraq in the coming weeks to support operations against Islamic State militants in Mosul, the military's top officer said Friday.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Andrew Tilghman
Publisher / Source: 
Military Times
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Military Cooperation
Terrorism

Human Rights on Trial in Egypt as NGO Funding Case Revived

Monday, March 28, 2016
Egypt has launched a new crackdown on human rights groups, questioning staff and ordering asset freezes over accusations they took foreign funding to destabilize the country after the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Lin Noueihed
Ahmed Aboulenein
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Rio de Janeiro Announces Security Training with U.S. Agents

Monday, March 28, 2016
A day after tragic events unfolded in Brussels, authorities in Rio de Janeiro announced an anti-terrorism training program that leverages agents of the Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) from the American Bureau of Diplomatic Security. English
Country(s): 
Brazil
Author(s): 
Jay Forte
Publisher / Source: 
The Rio Times
Tag(s): 
Counterterrorism
Military and Police Aid

Will New U.S. Aid Address Damage Caused to Colombia’s Rural Communities?

Monday, March 28, 2016
During Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ visit in February 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a proposal for “Peace Colombia,” a $450 million assistance package to take effect after peace talks wrap up in Havana, Cuba with the country’s most powerful guerilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Katie Sizemore
Publisher / Source: 
Huffington Post
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Gangs in El Salvador Make Purported Truce Offer

Monday, March 28, 2016
A video purportedly made by El Salvador’s main street gangs is offering an end to killings in the country and asks the government not to continue an anti-gang offensive.English
Country(s): 
El Salvador
Publisher / Source: 
The Star
Wire Service: 
AFP, Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Security
Criminal Organizations
Criminal Organizations

El Salvador's 'Plan Seguro' Failing to Make Communities Safe: Report

Monday, March 28, 2016
The unceasing drumbeat of deadly violence in notoriously rough Ciudad Delgado highlights the failure of the government’s "Plan El Salvador Seguro" to provide quick relief to the country’s security woes.English
Country(s): 
El Salvador
Author(s): 
Dan Alder
Publisher / Source: 
In Sight Crime
Tag(s): 
Security
Violence
Policing

U.S. Effort to Curb Afghan Heroin Trade a Total Failure

Monday, March 28, 2016
The United States has spent $113 billion in Afghanistan since 2002, on reconstruction efforts alone—that money has been spent on the Afghan National Security Forces (for whom U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan to support fifteen years later), promoting good governance and "engaging in counter-narcotics," according to General John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Ed Krayewski
Publisher / Source: 
Newsweek
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade

Generals of CIS to Meet in Moscow

Monday, March 28, 2016
The meeting of the committee will be attended by delegations from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. It is expected that in the course of his working trip to Minsk the head of the Russian General Staff will hold bilateral meetings with colleagues from Tajikistan and Belarus to discuss military and military-technical cooperation between the states.English
Country(s): 
Eurasia Regional
Publisher / Source: 
News.Az (Azerbaijan)
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation

SPLM-N Rebels Say South Sudanese Militiamen are Fighting Beside Sudanese Troops

Monday, March 28, 2016
The Sudan people’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) said it forces have repelled a series of attacks carried out by the Sudanese troops on its position in South Kordofan, and claimed that South Sudanese militiamen participated in the fighting along the Sudanese government forces. English
Country(s): 
Sudan
Publisher / Source: 
Sudan Tribune
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Kazakh-US Security Cooperation Discussed at Conference in Astana Think Tank

Monday, March 28, 2016
The military cooperation project for 2016-2017 has been developed between the Kazakh and American armed forces, according to the President of the Kazakh Ministry of Defence Centre for Military and Strategic Studies Kozykorpesh Karbuzov.English
Country(s): 
Kazakhstan
Author(s): 
Yerbolat Uatkhanov
Publisher / Source: 
The Astana Times
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation

Ethiopia's Oromo People Demand Equal Rights in Protests

Monday, March 28, 2016
Though the government shelved its "Integrated Development Master Plan" due to the tension, protests continued as the Oromo called for equal rights.English
Country(s): 
Ethiopia
Publisher / Source: 
News 24 (Nigeria)
Wire Service: 
Al Jazeera
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Prospects of Taliban Peace Talks Dim as Front Lines Shift

Monday, March 28, 2016
Prospects of jumpstarting peace talks with the Taliban are becoming increasingly dim amid recent battlefield gains by the insurgents in Afghanistan, an embattled government in Kabul and growing suspicions of Pakistan's good intentions in facilitating such negotiations.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Kathy Gannon
Publisher / Source: 
Military.com
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations
Terrorism

In Syria, Militias Armed by the Pentagon Fight Those Armed by the CIA

Monday, March 28, 2016
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war.English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Nabih Bulos
W.J. Hennigan
Brian Bennet
Publisher / Source: 
Los Angeles Times
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

West Africa: China Donates U.S.$5 Million Military Equipment to Ecowas Troops

Monday, March 28, 2016
The Government of the People's Republic of China has donated military equipment worth five million dollars to the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) to assist in its peace-keeping operations.English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Abdullateef Salau
Publisher / Source: 
All Africa
Wire Service: 
Daily Trust
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

China Launches Charm Offensive for First Overseas Naval Base

Friday, March 25, 2016
China has launched an unusual charm offensive to explain its first overseas naval base in Djibouti, seeking to assuage global concerns about military expansionism by portraying the move as Beijing's contribution to regional security and development. English
Country(s): 
Djibouti
Author(s): 
Ben Blanchard
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters Africa
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

Saudi Arabia Campaign leaves 80% of Yemen Population Needing Aid

Friday, March 25, 2016
The U.S.-backed military intervention that began one year ago has killed an estimated 6,400 people, half of them civilians, injured 30,000 more and displaced 2.5 million, according to the UN. Eighty per cent of the population, about 20 million people, are now in need of some form of aid.English
Country(s): 
Saudi Arabia
Author(s): 
Simon Tisdall
Publisher / Source: 
The Guardian
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

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