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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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NATO Chief Stoltenberg: 'Now Is the Time To Invest in Our Defense'

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
In the last couple of years, our world has become more dangerous. But in the same period, NATO has adapted to make sure we are still able to keep our countries and our people safe. This is what we are determined to do as we prepare for our summit next July in Warsaw.English
Country(s): 
Europe and Eurasia Regional
Author(s): 
Jens Stoltenberg
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Military

Burkina Faso Charges Three Soldiers with Murder of Journalist

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged three soldiers over the murder in 1998 of journalist Norbert Zongo, whose killing became a symbol of repression during veteran President Blaise Compaore's rule. English
Country(s): 
Burkina Faso
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web (South Africa)
Wire Service: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Governance
Human Rights
Human Rights
Judicial Reform

CPJ: China, Egypt Top List Of Worst Jailers Of Journalists In 2015

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international press rights group, says China and Egypt were the world's worst jailers of journalists in 2015, while the number of journalists imprisoned around the world "declined modestly from record levels recorded in the past three years."English
Country(s): 
Global
Publisher / Source: 
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Senate Committee Downplays FMS Complaints

Monday, December 14, 2015
As operations in Yemen and Syria continue to deplete military arsenals from Gulf Cooperation Council nations, those countries have publicly campaigned to speed up the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.English
Country(s): 
Middle East and North Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Joe Gould
Aaron Mehta
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales
U.S. Congress

In Talks Over Seized U.S. Property, Havana Counters With Own Claim

Monday, December 14, 2015
Some of the thorniest conversations in the long road toward full relations between Cuba and the United States have only just begun in recent days: The two sides are sitting down for the first time to discuss the American properties Cuba confiscated decades ago.English
Country(s): 
Cuba
Author(s): 
Frances Robles
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Sanctions

U.N. Proposes Measures to Prevent Mass Atrocities

Monday, December 14, 2015
The United Nations Security Council this weekend adopted a three-option resolution contained in a letter UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addressed to the council. English
Country(s): 
Burundi
Author(s): 
Emmanuel Kendemeh
Publisher / Source: 
Cameroon Tribune
Tag(s): 
U.N. Peacekeeping
Conflict Resolution
Conflict

Not Much Room for Criticism in Central Asia

Monday, December 14, 2015
A report released by the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), a Brussels-based organization, says that increased efforts to crackdown on dissent and pluralism in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are “part of a region-wide trend of shrinking space for independent voices.”English
Country(s): 
Central Asia Regional
Author(s): 
Catherine Putz
Publisher / Source: 
The Diplomat
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Special Report: Gangs in Honduras

Monday, December 14, 2015
In the last two decades, Honduras has seen a significant increase in gang membership, gang criminal activity, and gang-related violence. The uptick in violence has been particularly troubling. In 2014, Honduras was considered the most violent nation in the world that was not at war.English
Country(s): 
Honduras
Publisher / Source: 
InSight Crime
Tag(s): 
Criminal Organizations

Turkey Mulls Stopgap Air Defense Acquisition

Monday, December 14, 2015
Turkey’s military and procurement officials are mulling a stopgap, off-the-shelf solution after they scrapped a multibillion dollar air defense contract and decided to build it indigenously. English
Country(s): 
Turkey
Author(s): 
Burak Ege Bekdil
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

U.S. Warns Citizens to Leave Burundi After Fighting Flares

Monday, December 14, 2015
The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency U.S. government personnel and dependents to leave violence-torn Burundi and warned other Americans to get out "as soon as it is feasible to do so". English
Country(s): 
Burundi
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo News
Wire Service: 
AFP
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
U.S. Policy
Conflict
Conflict Resolution

Egypt Is Intensifying Its Crackdown on Journalists, Rights Group Warns

Monday, December 14, 2015
The Egyptian government has intensified its crackdown against members of the news media in recent weeks, arresting one prominent journalist and preparing to bring another to trial, as the number of reporters detained in Egypt has hit its highest level in decades, according to human rights campaigners and press freedom groups.English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Amina Ismail
Declan Walsh
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Policing

Senegal, a Peaceful Islamic Democracy, Is Jarred by Fears of Militancy

Monday, December 14, 2015
The news reports from France served as a backdrop to an international hunt for extremists that now, surprisingly, has reached the living room of Marieme Sow, thousands of miles away in a country long held up as a model of an Islamic democratic society. English
Country(s): 
Senegal
Author(s): 
Dionne Searcey
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Counterterrorism
Terrorism

Iraqi Forces Advance in Campaign to Retake Ramadi From ISIS

Monday, December 14, 2015
More than six months after falling to the Islamic State, the city center of Ramadi is under siege by Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters backed by American air power. Commanders say that as few as 300 militants remain holed up inside, behind a defense of elaborate tunnels, booby-trapped buildings and roads laced with hidden bombs.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Omar Al-Jawoshy
Falih Hassan
Tim Arango
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Terrorism

Burkina Faso Indicts, Jails 3 in Killing of Journalist

Monday, December 14, 2015
A lawyer says that three former presidential guard members have been indicted and jailed for the killing of an investigative journalist nearly 20 years ago. English
Country(s): 
Burkina Faso
Publisher / Source: 
News 24
Wire Service: 
AP
Tag(s): 
Governance
Civil-Military Relations
Human Rights

Yemen's Warring Sides Agree to Ceasefire Ahead of Talks

Monday, December 14, 2015
A seven-day ceasefire in Yemen is to start on Monday, a day before UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland, officials on both sides of a war that has killed nearly 6,000 people said. English
Country(s): 
Yemen
Publisher / Source: 
Al Jazeera
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

Zaria Killings - NSCIA Warns Nigerian Govt, Military Against Creating Another Boko Haram Insurgency

Monday, December 14, 2015
he Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has warned the Nigerian military authorities against plunging the country into another Boko Haram-like insurgency with the repeated attacks on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria. Several members of the Movement were reportedly killed by troops of the Nigerian Army after a confrontation on Saturday in Zaria. English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Author(s): 
Sani Tukur
Publisher / Source: 
Premium Times (Nigeria)
Tag(s): 
Counterinsurgency
Counterterrorism
Civil-Military Relations
Human Rights

Why Did Central Asia's Leading Democracy Ban a Human Rights Watch Researcher?

Monday, December 14, 2015
Central Asia’s leading democracy has taken the unprecedented step of barring a prominent human rights researcher from entering the country. The decision comes ahead of Kyrgyzstan taking a seat on the UN Human Rights Council in January 2016.English
Country(s): 
Kyrgyzstan
Author(s): 
Georgina Rannard
Publisher / Source: 
UN Dispatch
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Human Rights
Corruption

Censor or Die: The Death of Mexican News in the Age of Drug Cartels

Monday, December 14, 2015
Submitting to cartel demands is the only way to survive, said Hildebrando “Brando” Deandar Ayala, 39, editor in chief of El Mañana, one of the oldest and largest newspapers in the region with a print circulation of 30,000. “You do it or you die, and nobody wants to die,” he said. “Auto censura — self-censorship — that’s our shield.”English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Dana Priest
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Criminal Organizations

Mexico's Peña Nieto Sets Sights on Disappearances, Torture

Monday, December 14, 2015
Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto has put forth two new initiatives aimed at combating kidnapping and torture, but local conditions may hinder any eventual implementation. English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Arron Daugherty
Publisher / Source: 
InSight Crime
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Judicial Reform
Security Sector Reform

Afghan Province, Teetering to the Taliban, Draws In Extra U.S. Forces

Monday, December 14, 2015
Alarmed that large stretches of Helmand Province are falling to the Taliban, American Special Operations forces have secretly taken a more central role in the fighting to save crucial areas of the province, as more air power and ground troops have been committed to the battle, according to Western and Afghan officials.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
David Jolly
Taimoor Shah
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Military
Terrorism

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