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America’s ‘Plan B’ for Syria Has a Very Ugly Past

Friday, February 26, 2016
Dividing Middle Easterners along ethno-religious lines has a deeply troubled history. There's little reason to believe similar 'last-ditch' plans for Syria would be any different.
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Aamna Mohdin
Publisher / Source: 
Defense One
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

U.S. Must Support Tunisia to Defeat Violent Extremism

Friday, February 26, 2016
Five years have passed since the start of Arab Spring revolutions when dictators across Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Syria were challenged by peaceful, popular uprisings. Immense excitement set in as emotionally gripped Arabs, ruthlessly oppressed by autocrats for decades, began to have hope that they may finally live in freedom and dignity.
Country(s): 
Tunisia
Author(s): 
Radwan Masmoudi
Publisher / Source: 
The Hill
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Special Military Operations by France, U.S. and the U.K. Hit IS in Libya

Friday, February 26, 2016
France, together with the U.S. and the U.K., perform special military operations against the Islamic State (IS) in Libya, according to a report by French newspaper Le Monde.
Country(s): 
Libya
Publisher / Source: 
New Europe
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/US 4th Fleet Holds Staff Talks with Peruvian Navy

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Delegates from the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet met with members of Marina de Guerra del Per (MGP-Peruvian Navy), Feb. 17-18, during the annual Operational Naval Committee (ONC) conference.English
Country(s): 
Peru
Author(s): 
Catherine Bland
Publisher / Source: 
United States Southern Command
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation

U.N. Gathers Libya War Crimes Evidence, Calls for ICC Action

Thursday, February 25, 2016
All sides in Libya have committed war crimes and other human rights abuses in the past two years and those responsible should face investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a United Nations report said on Thursday.English
Country(s): 
Libya
Author(s): 
Tom Miles
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Bolivia's Morales Admits Loss in Referendum on Term Limits

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has accepted defeat in a referendum which aimed to change the constitution to allow him to run for another term. Mr Morales said he had "lost a small battle, but not the war".English
Country(s): 
Bolivia
Publisher / Source: 
BBC
Tag(s): 
Governance

Egypt Concedes That Terrorists Caused Sinai Plane Crash

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi acknowledged Wednesday that terrorists were indeed responsible for the crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula in October, which killed all 224 people onboard.English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Nash Jenkins
Publisher / Source: 
Time
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Tunisia police protest over pay, work conditions

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Several thousand Tunisian policemen protested in front of the prime minister's office on Thursday, chanting and demanding more pay and better working conditions as they face Islamist militants targeting security forcesEnglish
Country(s): 
Tunisia
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Policing

LGBTI Salvadorans: Winning Legal Advances but Facing Unchecked Violence

Thursday, February 25, 2016
After the murder of three transgender activists and the brutal beating of a transgender man, the Salvadoran legislature passed a hate-crime law in September 2015, placing El Salvador among a handful of Latin American nations with such laws to protect LGBTI citizens.English
Country(s): 
El Salvador
Author(s): 
Lisa Haugaard
Publisher / Source: 
Security Assistance Monitor
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

More Arms to Saudi Arabia: More Mideast Conflicts

Thursday, February 25, 2016
According to a report released this week by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia have increased by an astonishing 279% between 2011 and 2015, compared with the prior five-year period. More then three quarters of the weaponry came from the U.S. and the United Kingdom.English
Country(s): 
Saudi Arabia
Author(s): 
William D. Hartung
Publisher / Source: 
LobeLog
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Fresh Dawn Looming for Ties with US

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Speculation is mounting that Kyrgyzstan wants to repair relations with the United States after a dispute over human rights torpedoed ties last summer. English
Country(s): 
Kyrgyzstan
Author(s): 
Peter Leonard
Publisher / Source: 
EurasiaNet

Unemployment Rises as Economy Teeters

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Falling oil prices and a recent currency devaluation are spurring businesses to lay off workers in Azerbaijan. But, in a sign of the political sensitivity of the country’s economic downtown, some companies are keeping unemployment numbers under wraps.English
Country(s): 
Azerbaijan
Author(s): 
Duma Safarova
Publisher / Source: 
EurasiaNet
Tag(s): 
Security

S.A. Doing its Part for Peacekeeping in Africa

Thursday, February 25, 2016
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and South African Police Service (SAPS) continue to participate in conflict prevention and peacekeeping in the continent, the government has said, with anti-piracy operations and peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan.
Country(s): 
South Africa
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web (South Africa)
Tag(s): 
U.N. Peacekeeping

John Kerry: U.S. has sent to the Kurds 41,000 grenades and 60,000 anti-tank rounds

Thursday, February 25, 2016
The Obama administration's reliance on Kurdish militants to fight the Islamic State has prompted deep friction with Turkey, but Secretary of State John F. Kerry says U.S. weapons will continue to flow to the so-called peshmerga forces, with some 5 million rounds of ammunition expected to be delivered soon.English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Guy Taylor
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Times
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Arms Sales

South Sudan Sides Trade Barbs Over Peace Progress After Sanctions Threat

Thursday, February 25, 2016
South Sudan's government said on Thursday that a threat of U.S. sanctions if the country fails to deliver on a peace deal should be directed at rebels in the country rather than the presidency.
Country(s): 
South Sudan
Author(s): 
Denis Dumo
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters (UK)
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Rights Group Reports Deepening Violence in Burundi

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Security forces and their allies in Burundi have beaten people with rocks, bricks, gun butts and iron bars; they have abducted suspects and extorted money for holding them; and they have buried victims in mass graves, a leading human rights group said on Thursday.
Country(s): 
Burundi
Author(s): 
Jeffrey Gettleman
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Change in Government and Worsening Human Rights Conditions in Armenia

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Former coalition allies, the ruling Republican Party and Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnakcutyun (ARFD) after 7 years have broken and then signed another memorandum of co-operation late in the evening on 24th February.English
Country(s): 
Armenia
Author(s): 
Karen Tovmasyan
Publisher / Source: 
Georgia Today
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

China Says Starts Construction of Djibouti Military Base

Thursday, February 25, 2016
China has begun construction of a logistics base in Djibouti, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday, what the Horn of African country's government calls a military facility that will be China's first overseas. English
Country(s): 
Djibouti
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web (South Africa)
Wire Service: 
Reuters (UK)
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

Signs Grow of New Western Urgency to Stop Islamic State in Libya

Thursday, February 25, 2016
U.S. special forces have been holding meetings with potential Libyan allies. U.S. and French drones and British RAF jets are flying reconnaissance missions in preparation for action to help the local forces fighting Islamic State.English
Country(s): 
Libya
Author(s): 
Aidan Lewis
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Serbia Says a U.S. Strike in Libya Killed Two of its Diplomats; Here’s Why the Pentagon Thinks it Didn’t

Thursday, February 25, 2016
The U.S. military believes that an air strike against the Islamic State in Libya last week did not kill two kidnapped Serbian diplomats, as Belgrade has asserted, and instead suspects the Westerners were kidnapped by a separate criminal group that killed the foreigners and tried to pass off their deaths.English
Country(s): 
Libya
Author(s): 
Missy Ryan
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Conflict
Human Rights

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