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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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Looking At The Colombian Military's Statistics On The FARC And Child Soldiers

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The FARC announced that they would no longer recruit any combatants under the age of 17. Previously, the FARC officially recruited minors as young as 15 and there is plenty of evidence of children as young as 12 or 13 entering their ranks.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
Blogging By Boz
Tag(s): 
Conflict

What ISIS Really Wants

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.English
Country(s): 
Middle East and North Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Graeme Wood
Publisher / Source: 
The Atlantic
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Foreign Policy
Security

U.S. to Support Cameroon Military in Boko Haram Fight

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The United States will help Cameroon's army secure equipment to fight Boko Haram, its embassy in Cameroon said on Wednesday, as it deepens its commitment to countering the jihadist group.English
Country(s): 
Cameroon
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Colombian M1117 APC Destroyed in Guerrilla Attack

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
A Colombian Army M1117 Pegaso 4x4 armored security vehicle (ASV) was destroyed on 15 February by an improvised explosive device (IED).English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Inigo Guevara
Publisher / Source: 
IHS Jane's 360
Tag(s): 
Military

Ghana Confirms Super Tucano, Z-9 Acquisitions

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The Ghana Air Force (GAF) will acquire four new Harbin Z-9 helicopters from China and five new Embraer Super Tucano trainer and light attack aircraft from Brazil, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.English
Country(s): 
Ghana
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales
Militarization

Financial Officer Of Los Zetas Captured In Nuevo Laredo

Friday, February 13, 2015
Federal Forces detained Humberto Dominguez Lara, presumed financial operator for the Cartel of Los Zetas in the states of Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas and Coahuila.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Otis B Fly-Wheel
Publisher / Source: 
Borderland Beat
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade

Al Qaeda Seizes Yemen Army Base as Strife Builds

Friday, February 13, 2015
Deadly Operation Comes Amid U.S. Concerns That Its Counterterrorism Operations in Yemen Are Being Hindered by the instability.
Country(s): 
Yemen
Author(s): 
Hakim Almasmari
Asa Fitch
Publisher / Source: 
The Wall Street Journal
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

French Navy Plans Around Ship Sale to Egypt

Friday, February 13, 2015
The French Navy sees no problem with a prospective sale of the Normandie multimission frigate to Egypt, and in return has asked that sister ships be delivered more quickly so it has six of the new warships delivered by 2018, Navy Chief of Staff Adm. Bernard Rogel said.
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Pierre Tran
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Migrant Minors' Rights Systematically Violated in CentAm, U.S., Mexico

Friday, February 13, 2015
Conditions and the immigration control measures in the countries of northern Central America, Mexico and the United States systematically violate the human rights of minors trying to emigrate and of the children of emigrant parents, according to a study by the University of California in Hastings.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Central Africa Regional
Publisher / Source: 
Fox News Latino
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Is The “Unaccompanied Minors” Crisis Over?

Friday, February 13, 2015
The crisis is not over. If current trends continue, child and family apprehensions in 2015 will fall behind 2014, but still exceed 2013 and every other year on record.English
Country(s): 
Central America Regional
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Office On Latin America (WOLA)
Tag(s): 
Immigration

There Will Be Fewer Child Migrants This Year, But the Crisis Isn't Over

Friday, February 13, 2015
Even as the journey north has gotten harder, thousands of kids are fleeing Central America for the United States.
Country(s): 
Central African Republic
Author(s): 
Ian Gordon
Publisher / Source: 
Mother Jones
Tag(s): 
Migration

Rights Group: Burundi Police, Soldiers Executed 47 Rebels

Friday, February 13, 2015
The Burundian army, police and members of the ruling party's youth league executed 47 people following a clash with an armed group in the country's northwest, an international human rights group said Thursday.English
Country(s): 
Burundi
Author(s): 
Tom Odula
Publisher / Source: 
Ap News
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Policing

The Kurds Need Weapons, Now

Friday, February 13, 2015
From the heights here, you have a panoramic view of the strategic territory west of Mosul that Kurdish peshmerga fighters, supported by U.S. warplanes, have won back from the Islamic State over the past month. The main road linking Mosul with the Syrian border has been cut and nearly 100 square miles have been liberated.
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Author(s): 
David Ignatius
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Trapped in Baku

Friday, February 13, 2015
A press freedom advocate -- and husband of an American servicewoman -- went to the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan, fearing for his life. But he was turned away.English
Country(s): 
Azerbaijan
Author(s): 
Michael Weiss
Publisher / Source: 
Foreign Policy
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Human Rights
Human Rights

Colombia Guerrillas Say They Won’t Recruit Anyone Under 17

Friday, February 13, 2015
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group Thursday said it would no longer allow 15-year-old children to join its ranks, bumping-up the minimum age to become a member of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to 17. English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Jim Wyss
Publisher / Source: 
The Miami Herald
Tag(s): 
Conflict

East Africa's Faustian Counter-Terrorism Pact

Friday, February 13, 2015
The US military and intelligence services get a free pass to zap terrorist targets; incumbent regimes, even when they massacre their political opponents, get immunity from all but the mildest diplomatic criticism from Washington. In theory, that should create a furore at the AU, where AU Commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says she is determined to break the dependence on foreign powers. English
Country(s): 
East Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Parselelo Kantai
Publisher / Source: 
The Africa Report (France)
Tag(s): 
Counterterrorism

The Guantanamo Base, A U.S. Colonial Relic Impeding Peace With Cuba

Friday, February 13, 2015
A long-awaited revival of U.S.-Cuban relations following the Obama Administration’s gradual easing of the half-century embargo against Cuba has kick-started a modest dialogue surrounding the normalization of economic relations between the two countries. While it is certainly an impediment to an agenda on any U.S.-Cuban relations, the economic embargo is not the only factor that inhibits a diplomatic rapprochement. Another long-standing obstacle in the contentious relationship between Washington and Havana that fuels the simmering indignation among Cuban authorities is the continued U.S. occupation of Guantanamo.English
Country(s): 
Cuba
Author(s): 
Timothy Keen
Paul Gioia
Publisher / Source: 
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

U.S. Slams Sudan for Blocking Darfur Mass Rape Investigation

Friday, February 13, 2015
The United States on Thursday sharply criticized Sudan for obstructing a United Nations investigation into what Washington's U.N. envoy said were credible allegations of mass rape in the conflict-torn western Darfur region.English
Country(s): 
Sudan
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Human Rights
United Nations

Son of Gulf Cartel King Pleads Guilty To Trying To Sneak Ammo From Texas to Mexico

Friday, February 13, 2015
Osiel Cardenas Jr, the son of a former king of the Gulf Cartel, pleaded guilty Wednesday in South Texas to attempting to sneak ammunition into Mexico, prosecutors announced.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Dane Schiller
Publisher / Source: 
Stars and Stripes
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade

African Giant Nigeria Relies on Poorer Chad to Fight Rebels

Friday, February 13, 2015
Nigeria, with Africa’s biggest economy, is relying on poorer neighbor Chad to spearhead the battle against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram so it can put in place the security it needs to hold delayed presidential elections next month.English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Chad
Author(s): 
Daniel Magnowski
Yinka Ibukun
Publisher / Source: 
Bloomberg
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Military Cooperation

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