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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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China Defends Military Items Found By Colombia On Cargo Ship

Friday, March 6, 2015
China's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that a Chinese cargo ship was carrying legitimate military items when it was stopped in Colombia on its way to Cuba.English
Country(s): 
China
Cuba
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
Stars and Stripes
Wire Service: 
AFP, Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Arms Control

Turkmenistan Calls Up Military Reservists

Friday, March 6, 2015
Turkmen military reservists are heading off to training exercises for the first mass mobilisation since the country attained independence in 1991. Authorities summoned 200 reservists from Ashgabat and each of the country's five provinces, making about 1,200 in all, other sources at the Defence Ministry told Central Asia Online. English
Country(s): 
Turkmenistan
Author(s): 
Dzhumaguly Annayev
Publisher / Source: 
Central Asia Online
Tag(s): 
Militarization

Tunisia to Get Early Delivery of 8 Black Hawk Helicopters

Friday, March 6, 2015
The Tunisian Air Force will in the second half of this year take delivery of 8 of the 12 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters ordered from the United States last year.
Country(s): 
Tunisia
Program(s): 
Foreign Military Financing
Author(s): 
Oscar Nkala
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web

Libyan PM Says Turkey Supplying Weapons to Rival Tripoli Group

Friday, March 6, 2015
Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said his government would stop dealing with Turkey because it was sending weapons to a rival group in Tripoli so that “the Libyan people kill each other.”
Country(s): 
Libya
Turkey
Author(s): 
Ahmed Tolba
Ayman al-Warfalli
Publisher / Source: 
Al Arabiya News
Wire Service: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

Jordan Seeking 72 M31 Rocket Systems Made by Lockheed Martin

Friday, March 6, 2015
Jordan is seeking more U.S.-made rocket launchers built by Lockheed Martin Corp., the Pentagon announced Thursday.
Country(s): 
Jordan
Program(s): 
Direct Commercial Sales
Author(s): 
Doug Cameron
Publisher / Source: 
The Wall Street Journal
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

Egypt Replaces Minister Who Helped Quell Dissent

Friday, March 6, 2015
Egypt’s interior minister, who played a central role in the military-backed government’s far-reaching and ruthless crackdown on political dissent, was removed from his post on Thursday in a cabinet shake-up announced by the president’s office.
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Kareem Fahim
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

We Asked a Military Expert What Would Happen if the US Stopped Giving Money to Israel

Friday, March 6, 2015
According to the Congressional Research Service, for the 2015 fiscal year the Obama administration requested $3.1 billion in aid for Israel from the United States Foreign Military Funding program. Vice invited Rob Pinfold, former researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to explain what would happen if the U.S. stopped sending money to Israel.
Country(s): 
Israel
Program(s): 
Foreign Military Financing
Author(s): 
Mike Pearl
Publisher / Source: 
Vice

U.S. Support for Chad May Destabilize the Sahel

Friday, March 6, 2015
Chad appears eager to assert itself as a regional power broker. But the United States must be cautious before lending undue support to the Chadian military.English
Country(s): 
Chad
Author(s): 
Hilary Matfess
Publisher / Source: 
Al Jazeera America
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Foreign Policy

Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban. Seize the Day

Friday, March 6, 2015
Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s president since September, is making effort to improve his country’s tattered dealings with Pakistan. Closer relations hold out the tantalising possibility of making peace with the Taliban.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Publisher / Source: 
The Economist
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Sleeping with Our Enemy: Russia Sells Weapons to Azerbaijan

Friday, March 6, 2015
Armenia and Russia are allies and have a mutual defense pact. Russian troops help guard Armenia’s border with Turkey. Armenia is Russia’s only ally in the Caucasus. Why then is Russia supplying sophisticated weapons to a country that is not just Armenians’ enemy but also hostile to Russian interests?English
Country(s): 
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Author(s): 
David Boyajian
Publisher / Source: 
The Armenian Weekly
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Nigeria: Defence Headquarters Accuses Media of Undermining Nigeria Military Successes Against Boko Haram

Friday, March 6, 2015
The Nigeria military said segments of society including the media are deliberately playing down the operational successes achieved by Nigerian troops in the fight against insurgents.English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Author(s): 
Ronald Mutum
Publisher / Source: 
All Africa
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Military

Burundi Lawmakers Pass Media Bill to Expand Press Freedoms

Friday, March 6, 2015
Burundi’s national assembly has approved a draft media law, backtracking from contentious 2013 legislation that was denounced by reporters and rights groups as an assault on press freedoms.English
Country(s): 
Burundi
Author(s): 
Patrick Nduwimana
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo News
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Legislation

Security Threats Facing Africa And Its Capacity To Respond – Analysis

Friday, March 6, 2015
Africa is currently facing two entirely distinct security threats, one from the rise of radical Islam, the other from increased natural resource extraction. The author outlines three forms of international support that should be applied to Africa to counter these threats. English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Paul Collier
Publisher / Source: 
Eurasia Review
National Defense University
Tag(s): 
Security
Foreign Policy

Business as Unusual - Goodluck Jonathan Privatises Nigerian Relations with South Africa

Friday, March 6, 2015
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s government turned down President Jacob Zuma’s proposal for a South Africa-inspired African Union (AU) rapid response to combat the barbaric Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram – yet apparently hired ex-South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers to train the Nigerian Defence Force (NDF) to do so. English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
South Africa
Author(s): 
Peter Fabricius
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Terrorism
Foreign Policy

Zeta Leader Omar “Z-42″ Treviño Morales Arrested

Friday, March 6, 2015
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, Mexican officials arrested Omar Trevino Morales, the reputed boss of the Zetas Cartel.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Publisher / Source: 
Justice In Mexico
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade

The Destruction of Narco Airstrips In Honduras

Friday, March 6, 2015
The Honduran Military continues to conduct widespread efforts to destroy the airstrips in the region in order to curb the influx of narco flights. As part of this effort, the National Inter-Institutional Security Force (FUSINA for its Spanish acronym), which is comprised of Military and police, follows a four-phase systematic approach to eradicating landing stripsEnglish
Country(s): 
Honduras
Author(s): 
Brenda Fiegel
Publisher / Source: 
Dialogo Americas
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade

The Hardest (and the Most Important) Job in Afghanistan

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
This is no longer an American war, regardless of how many United States Special Operations forces continue to sweep the mountains for insurgents or how many American warplanes fire missiles into remote desert camps. That war, by most accounts, has been lost. In the face of endless violence, the Taliban have not been killed off. The nation is not pacified, the political future remains deeply uncertain and the death toll has never been higher. For the central government in Kabul, the real fight is to persuade the population, not to kill insurgents. And the police, local and national, are the only ones who can win it.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Central Asia Regional
Author(s): 
Azam Ahmed
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

The 'New' Militants

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The U.S. government, under the cover of the Authorized Use of Military Force (AUMF since Sept 14, 2001) in the last five years has managed to kill two TTP emirs (Baitullah Mehsud in 2009 and Hakeemullah Mehsud in 2013). Pakistani and Afghan forces have captured Faqir Mohammad and Latif Mehsud. The vacuum thus created is being filled by a younger, more brutal and ruthless generation of jihadis. They are more lethal as they are equipped with newer approaches for planning and executing terrorist attacks.English
Country(s): 
Pakistan
Central Asia Regional
Author(s): 
Farhan Zahid
Publisher / Source: 
DAWN (Pakistan)
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Turkey Mulls Military Support To Fight ISIL

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Turkey's government and military leaders are weighing options for a possible Turkish contribution to a planned military offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), officials here said.
Country(s): 
Turkey
Author(s): 
Burak Ege Bekdil
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

Fears of Growing Ugandan Police Brutality as Election Looms

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Rights activists in Uganda have been voicing concern over police brutality towards journalists. Some detect a policy of coercing media outlets into reporting favorably on the government ahead of the 2016 elections.English
Country(s): 
Uganda
Publisher / Source: 
Deutsche Welle
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

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