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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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Recent Nigerian Military Acquisitions

Monday, March 30, 2015
Nigeria’s military is acquiring new and second-hand hardware for all three branches of service as it battles Boko Haram insurgents on land and maritime insecurity and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Author(s): 
Guy Martin
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Military
Military Equipment

Colombia Court Orders Government To Attend Neo-Paramilitary Victims

Monday, March 30, 2015
Thousands of victims of Colombia’s armed conflict now have access to legal justice through a ruling of the Constitutional Court processed days before the unwrapping of the body’s corruption scandal.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Alice Bradshaw-Smith
Publisher / Source: 
Colombia Reports
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Obama Brings New Leadership At White House For South Asia

Monday, March 30, 2015
Peter Lavoy has been appointed to serve as Senior Director for South Asian AffairsEnglish
Country(s): 
South Asia Regional
Publisher / Source: 
Business Standard
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

DEA Agents In Colombia Had Drug-Funded ‘Sex Parties’

Monday, March 30, 2015
DEA agents in Colombia engaged in sex parties with prostitutes hired by drug traffickers, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Talor Gruenwald
Publisher / Source: 
Colombia Reports
Tag(s): 
Counternarcotics

Reinforcing the U.S.-Africa Partnership

Monday, March 30, 2015
As the White House announced earlier today, the United States is partnering with the Government of Kenya to host the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). This year’s Summit in Kenya will have an overarching focus on generating new investments in entrepreneurs, particularly women and young entrepreneurs. English
Country(s): 
Kenya
Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Grant Harris
Shannon Green
Publisher / Source: 
The White House
Tag(s): 
Security
Security

Drownings Along Rio Grande Spike After Enforcement Surge

Monday, March 30, 2015
Immigrants, desperate to avoid detection at a time of increased patrols, are choosing more dangerous and remote crossings into South Texas. Some of them even try to cross Rio Grande. English
Country(s): 
Central America Regional
Author(s): 
Seth Robbins
Publisher / Source: 
Seattle Times
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Immigration

U.N. Cuts DR Congo Peacekeeping Force by 2,000

Friday, March 27, 2015
The UN Security Council has voted to cut 2,000 troops from the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo despite calls from the country for a bigger drawdown. Tensions have been rife between Kinshasa and the United Nations over how to deal with rebel groups in the east and security concerns ahead of the elections seen as a test of democracy in the DR Congo.English
Country(s): 
Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Publisher / Source: 
Al Jazeera
Wire Service: 
AFP
Tag(s): 
Foreign Aid

With Yemen Strikes, Saudis Show Growing Independence from U.S.

Friday, March 27, 2015
Saudi Arabia kept some key details of its military action in Yemen from Washington until the last moment, U.S. officials said, as the kingdom takes a more assertive regional role to compensate for perceived U.S. disengagement.
Country(s): 
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Author(s): 
Matt Spetalnick
Warren Strobel
Mark Hosenball
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

Yemen Conflict Poised to Escalate as Egypt Says It Is Ready to Send Troops

Friday, March 27, 2015
The possibility of a ground offensive in Yemen has grown significantly as Egypt declared its readiness to send troops into the embattled country “if necessary” in the wake of air strikes launched by a Saudi-led coalition.
Country(s): 
Egypt
Yemen
Author(s): 
Kareem Shaheen
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Publisher / Source: 
The Guardian
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

U.K. to Send 75 Military Trainers to Help Moderate Syrian Rebels

Friday, March 27, 2015
Britain is to send 75 military personnel to help train moderate Syrian forces fighting on two fronts, against Islamic State and President Bashar al-Assad.
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Ewen MacAskill
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS in Tikrit Prompt Boycott by Shiite Fighters

Friday, March 27, 2015
By Day 2 of the American airstrike campaign against militants holed up in Tikrit, the mission appeared beleaguered on several fronts on Thursday: Thousands of Shiite militiamen boycotted the fight, others threatened to attack any Americans they found, and Iraqi officials said nine of their fighters had been accidentally killed in an airstrike.
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Rod Nordland
Helene Cooper
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

Afghans Want U.S. to Speed up Training of Afghan Air Force

Friday, March 27, 2015
The Afghan government has asked the U.S. to accelerate the training and equipping of Afghan pilots to fly aeromedical evacuation and close air support missions, a top Afghan official said Thursday.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Central Asia Regional
Author(s): 
Jeff Schogol
Publisher / Source: 
Air Force Times
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Honduran President Opens 2015 Conference on Central American Security

Friday, March 27, 2015
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez welcomed security and defense leaders from 14 nations as they gathered in Tegucigalpa March 25 for two days of talks on ways to strengthen their ongoing security cooperation and counter transnational organized crime in Central America.
Country(s): 
Honduras
Author(s): 
Jose Ruiz
Publisher / Source: 
U.S Southern Command
Tag(s): 
Security

Have Colombia's Peace Talks Reached the Point of No Return?

Friday, March 27, 2015
President Santos's optimism has not been shared by many Colombians, who after three previous attempts by the government and FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) to sign a peace deal, are wary of predicting success this time. But as peace talks in Havana slowly advance, both sides have taken conciliatory steps in recent months, raising hopes that the negotiations have reached a point of no return.
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Anastasia Moloney
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

A Better Afghan Strategy: Lose the Timeline

Friday, March 27, 2015
The Obama administration would be wise to use Afghan President's visit not to simply reaffirm its current guidance regarding U.S. involvement in Afghanistan but to make a bold statement that it is committed to the longer-term, continued development of a key ally.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Jason Campbell
Publisher / Source: 
War on the Rocks
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

Africa: The African Union Calls for the Universalization and Full Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention

Friday, March 27, 2015
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Chairperson of the African Union, made a statement encouraging universal adoption of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction. English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Publisher / Source: 
All Africa

Uzbekistan Takes Steps to Prevent Nuclear and Chemical Terrorism

Friday, March 27, 2015
Uzbekistan is committed to preventing the trafficking of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) material, officials say. The government is opening a centre in June to prevent trafficking in chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear materials.English
Country(s): 
Uzbekistan
Author(s): 
Maksim Yeniseyev
Publisher / Source: 
Central Asia Online
Tag(s): 
Security

After the Election: Fundamental Security Challenges Nigeria Must Face

Friday, March 27, 2015
Boko Haram is but one of a series of interlocking security and governance challenges that the next president of Nigeria will face. This is part one of the series of reviews some of the most pressing of these other strategic challenges and the leadership that will be required to address them which focuses on identity.English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Publisher / Source: 
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

U.N. Chastises Guatemala on Militarization of Security

Friday, March 27, 2015
The United Nations has criticized Guatemala's increasingly militarized approach to combating insecurity, a rebuke that could easily be applied to other countries in Central America's Northern Triangle region.
Country(s): 
Guatemala
Author(s): 
David Gagne
Publisher / Source: 
InSight Crime
Tag(s): 
Militarization

U.S. Diplomat for Africa Will Observe Nigeria Elections

Friday, March 27, 2015
Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield will lead an "official diplomatic observation mission" of the presidential and national assembly elections that take place Saturday, according to the State Department statement.English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo News
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

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