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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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U.S. Helicopters May Aid Iraqi Forces in Fight to Retake Mosul from ISIS

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
U.S. attack helicopters -- AH-64 Apaches -- could be committed against the Islamic State for the first time in an accelerated campaign to retake Mosul that the Iraqis and Kurds say will happen this year, the top U.S. commander for Iraq and Syria said Monday.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Richard Sisk
Publisher / Source: 
Military.com
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Colombia is Preparing for Peace. So Are Its Drug Traffickers.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
As the Colombian government nears a deal to end to its 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas, it is intensifying another war in the jungles here along the Caribbean coast, the stronghold of a shadowy drug organization known as Clan Úsuga.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Nick Miroff
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post

"Re-tooling an Army From Scratch," As It Fights A War

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The U.S. and Lithuanian soldiers training a platoon of Ukrainian army soldiers on a cold, blustery day near the border with Poland were preparing the Ukrainians for their first "live fire" exercise.English
Country(s): 
Ukraine
Author(s): 
Cami Mccormick
Publisher / Source: 
CBS News
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

France Calls on U.S. to Lift Economic Embargo on Cuba

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
France called on the U.S. to lift the economic embargo against Cuba during a historic state visit Monday by the Caribbean island's president aimed at boosting economic relations between Havana and Paris. English
Country(s): 
Cuba
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Wire Service: 
The Associated Press

U.N., D.R.C. Forces to Resume Joint Fight Against FDLR Rebels

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The United Nations military force has joined forces with the Democratic Republic of Congo government to conduct joint operations against the FDLR rebel group. The initiative announced by the UN last week on Thursday puts an end to a nearly year-long stalemate between the UN forces, known as MONUSCO, and the DRC army.English
Country(s): 
Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Author(s): 
Kevin J. Kelley
Publisher / Source: 
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation

Colombia is preparing for peace. So are its drug traffickers.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
As the Colombian government nears a deal to end to its 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas, it is intensifying another war in the jungles here along the Caribbean coast, the stronghold of a shadowy drug organization known as Clan Úsuga.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Nick Miroff
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Counternarcotics

Top U.S. Commander: More Troops May Be Heading to Iraq

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said he is drawing up a variety of proposals for accelerating the fight against the terrorist group — some of which may require more U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Paul McLeary
Publisher / Source: 
Foreign Policy
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Security Assistance

Peruvian Armed Forces and SOUTHCOM Legal Officers Strengthen Ties

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Officials with the Peruvian Armed Forces and the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) recently conducted a conference to strengthen ties between the countries' Military legal professionals.English
Country(s): 
Peru
Author(s): 
Ximena Moretti
Publisher / Source: 
Dialogo
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation

Arms Flows to South Sudan Rivals Revealed in U.N. Report

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
South Sudan's government has purchased three attack helicopters from a company in Ukraine and is seeking to obtain another four through a Kampala-based company "closely connected to the Ugandan security establishment," a United Nations panel of experts says in a report published on Friday.Sudan, meanwhile, has been "the default arms supplier to the opposition" led by Riek Machar, the panel further reports. But those supplies have fallen short of what is needed by opposition fighters, leading Mr Machar to seek arms from numerous sources, "albeit with comparatively limited success," the UN experts add.English
Country(s): 
South Sudan
Author(s): 
Kevin J. Kelley
Publisher / Source: 
Africa Review (Kenya)
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Plan Colombia Shouldn’t Be the Price of Peace with the FARC

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
All the gains under Plan Colombia — as the U.S.-Colombia partnership has come to be known — now hang in the balance as a result of President Santos’s surprising decision three years ago to launch yet another peace process with the FARC, a $600 million-a-year narco-terrorist enterprise that has waged war on Colombian society for five decades.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Jose R. Cardenas
Publisher / Source: 
Foreign Policy
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

African Union Summit 2016: In Burundi, A Loss Of Faith In Peace

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The African Union, a 54-member continental bloc, had said it would send a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to quell the violence in war-torn Burundi, with or without the government’s consent. It backpedaled on that plan Sunday, instead announcing a deployment of high-level delegates to Bujumbura to negotiate a solution acceptable to President Pierre Nkurunziza. But the Burundian leader is unlikely to approve foreign boots on the ground under any circumstances, political and human rights experts said, leaving violence to continue unabated and tipping the central African nation closer to a civil war.
Country(s): 
Burundi
Author(s): 
Morgan Winsor
Publisher / Source: 
International Business Times
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Guatemala Military Sexual Violence Trial Starts

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
A trial has begun in Guatemala of two ex-military officers for human rights abuses against indigenous women during the country's long armed conflict.
Country(s): 
Guatemala
Publisher / Source: 
BBC
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

U.S. Broadens Fight Against ISIS With Attacks in Afghanistan

Monday, February 1, 2016
The United States has carried out at least a dozen operations — including commando raids and airstrikes — in the past three weeks against militants in Afghanistan aligned with the Islamic State, expanding the Obama administration’s military campaign against the terrorist group beyond Iraq and Syria. English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Michael S. Schmidt
Eric Schmitt
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

Official: ISIS Has Lost Five Percent of Territory it Once Held in Syria

Monday, February 1, 2016
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has lost about 40 percent of the territory it once held in Iraq, but only about "five percent" of the territory it once held in Syria, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said Friday.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Author(s): 
Kristina Wong
Publisher / Source: 
The Hill
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Chad President Closes A.U. Summit in Ethiopia

Monday, February 1, 2016
The African Union’s new Chairperson, Chadian President Idriss Deby, urged African leaders on Sunday to engage in dialogue to end violence in Burundi and South Sudan. Deby told delegates at the closing ceremony of this year’s AU summit that they must take action before thousands of people die as a result of the violence in the two east African nations.English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Publisher / Source: 
CCTV
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

Saudi-led Coalition Says Will Work to Reduce Yemen Civilian Deaths

Monday, February 1, 2016
A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen regrets civilian deaths, which it says are unintentional, and is improving its targeting mechanisms with Western help, particularly from the U.S. English
Country(s): 
Saudi Arabia
Author(s): 
Noah Browning
Ali Abdelaty
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Conflict

African Union Abandons Plans to Send Peacekeepers to Burundi

Monday, February 1, 2016
African leaders failed on Sunday to authorise a proposed peacekeeping force to stem violence in Burundi in the face of vehement opposition from the government in Bujumbura. Instead, the African Union is to send envoys for more talks, although previous negotiations have done nothing to end months of conflict.English
Country(s): 
Burundi
Publisher / Source: 
France 24
Wire Service: 
AFP
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

Partying on a Precipice

Monday, February 1, 2016
Those who are pushing for Ms Rousseff’s impeachment concede privately that they are unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority needed in the lower house to send the motion to the Senate. But they plan to drag out the proceeding as long as the (vague) legal deadlines permit. That will accomplish their goal of undermining the president.English
Country(s): 
Brazil
Publisher / Source: 
The Economist (UK)
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

Boko Haram: Children Among Villagers Burned to Death in Nigeria Attack

Monday, February 1, 2016
Scores of people, including children, have been killed in a Nigerian town by Boko Haram fighters who shot at villagers and set fire to their homes in the latest deadly attack by the Islamist militant group. The attack took place on Saturday in the village of Dalori, which lies about 12km (seven miles) from the northern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s north-east.English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Publisher / Source: 
The Guardian (UK)
Wire Service: 
Agence France Presse
The Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Report by Rio de Janeiro Truth Commission Denounces Violence Used in Favelas During Dictatorship

Monday, February 1, 2016
The body set up to investigate human rights violations of the military regime says the militarization of daily life and forced removals of residents are practices of the past that are being repeated today.English
Country(s): 
Brazil
Publisher / Source: 
Rio On Watch
Tag(s): 
Policing

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