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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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Islamic State attacks checkpoints in Iraq's Samarra

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Car bombs exploded at three checkpoints on the western outskirts of Iraq's holy city of Samarra on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 41 others, a security official and locals said.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Author(s): 
Saif Hameed
Ned Parker
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Terrorism
Conflict

How Africa’s political regimes legitimate themselves through the fight against terrorism

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Terrorism has been gaining ground in sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade. This does not mean that terrorism was non-existent in the region before this (the Lord’s Resistance Army was formed in Uganda in around 1986), but the formation per se of Sub Saharan organisations and their self-identification as terrorist groups is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Country(s): 
Uganda
Nigeria
Cameroon
Kenya
Chad
Publisher / Source: 
African Arguments
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Security

Pipeline havoc at Kashagan: no losses for Kazakhstan, no refund for NCOC

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Kashagan is an gigantic oil and gas field located in Kazakhstan’s section of the Caspian Sea and is one of the largest and most complex hydrocarbon development projects in the world.English
Country(s): 
Kazakhstan
Author(s): 
Dinara Urazova
Tatyana Kuzmina
Publisher / Source: 
Tengri News (Kazakhstan)

Somalia's al-Shabab kills 'CIA and Ethiopian spies'

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab has killed by firing squad four men accused of spying for the CIA and other intelligence agencies.English
Country(s): 
Somalia
Publisher / Source: 
BBC
Tag(s): 
Conflict
Military Operations

Violence Grows in Yemen as Al Qaeda Tries to Fight Its Way Back

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Yemen is reeling from some of the worst carnage in years as militants, especially Sunni extremists with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, have retaliated with growing ferocity.English
Country(s): 
Yemen
Author(s): 
Kareem Fahim
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Violence
Governance
Terrorism

Djibouti: Playing the great game

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Promoting itself as a safe haven amid regional turbulence, President Ismail Omar Guelleh's regime faces a resurgent opposition and scepticism that it can juggle its new alliances.
Country(s): 
Djibouti
Program(s): 
Bases and other overseas military presence
Author(s): 
Parselelo Kantai
Patrick Smith
Publisher / Source: 
The Africa Report (France)
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Military

Armenia picks Russian economic ties but tries to keep foot in the West

Thursday, January 8, 2015
When Armenia broke ranks last year with other former Soviet states marching toward Europe and pledged to join Russia’s new customs union instead, the goal of keeping a foothold in both the East and the West didn’t seem all that challenging.English
Country(s): 
Armenia
Author(s): 
Karoun Demirjian
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Security

Tunisia's smuggling trade poses security risk

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Tunisia is concerned about the effects of smuggling on the country's economy and security.English
Country(s): 
Tunisia
Author(s): 
Martin Armstrong
Publisher / Source: 
Al Jazeera
Tag(s): 
Governance
Security
Law Enforcement

Kyrgyzstan consolidates efforts against radicalisation

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Participants at the conference discussed the security situation in the Central Asian countries and ways to track down extremists and terrorists. They concluded the forum by adopting a joint statement containing specific recommendations for addressing threats and challenges.English
Country(s): 
Kyrgyzstan
Author(s): 
Bakyt Ibraimov
Publisher / Source: 
Central Asia Online
Tag(s): 
Counterterrorism

U.S.-led forces drop nearly 5,000 bombs on ISIS

Thursday, January 8, 2015
U.S.-led aircraft have dropped nearly 5,000 bombs in the air war against ISIS jihadists in Iraq and Syria, damaging or destroying more than 3,000 targets including tanks, the Pentagon said Wednesday.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Program(s): 
Bases and other overseas military presence
Publisher / Source: 
Al Arabiya News
Wire Service: 
AFP
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Terrorism
Counterterrorism

Report: Border drones cost $28K for each migrant caught

Thursday, January 8, 2015
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General report concluded that the drone program costs far more than the agency claims and doesn't work well enough to justify spending more on it without further studyEnglish
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Bob Ortega
Publisher / Source: 
AZ Central
Tag(s): 
Border Control
Drones

Paraguayan rebel leader Albino Jara 'killed'

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Albino Jara was killed in a jungle area near the town of Cuero Fresco, some 480km (300 miles) north of the capital, Asuncion, said a government spokesman.English
Country(s): 
Paraguay
Publisher / Source: 
BBC
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Turkey To Order 4 More F-35s, 5 More Chinooks

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Turkey's top procurement panel decided Wednesday to order four more F-35 fighter jets and five more CH-47F Chinook heavy transport helicopters, the government announced.English
Country(s): 
Turkey
Program(s): 
Direct Commercial Sales
Author(s): 
Burak Ege Bekdil
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

IS airstrike targets include barracks, boats, Humvees

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Buildings, fighting positions and light vehicles top the list of targets for the more than 3,200 airstrikes that the U.S. and its coalition partners have unleashed on Iraq and Syria since last summer.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Author(s): 
Andrew Tilghman
Publisher / Source: 
Military Times
Tag(s): 
Military Operations
Terrorism
Counterterrorism
Conflict

Seychelles and EU Navfor carry out anti-piracy exercise

Thursday, January 8, 2015
The Seychelles Coast Guard, Air Force and Police together with the EU Naval Force Somalia and the EU’s civilian maritime security capacity building Mission, EUCAP Nestor, have carried out an anti-piracy exercise.English
Country(s): 
Seychelles
Publisher / Source: 
Defense Web
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment
Security

Uruguay Officials Find Explosive Near Israeli Embassy

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Uruguay's government says security forces found a small explosive device near a building housing the Israeli Embassy, and safely detonated it.English
Country(s): 
Uruguay
Israel
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Wire Service: 
Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

Torture and Death for Uzbek Muslims in Jail

Thursday, January 8, 2015
About 12,500 political prisoners in Uzbekistan - more than in the Soviet gulags at the height of the Cold War - are subjected to systematic torture: asphyxiation, electrocution, and beatings, human rights groups, former inmates, and researchers say.English
Country(s): 
Uzbekistan
Author(s): 
Mansur Mirovalev
Publisher / Source: 
Aljazeera
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Rights groups urge United States to seek U.N. arms embargo on South Sudan

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Washington should call for a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan's warring parties, rights groups said in a letter published on Thursday, as analysts warned that fighting would flare up in the approaching dry season.English
Country(s): 
South Sudan
Author(s): 
Kieran Guilbert
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
U.N. Peacekeeping

Islamic State crisis: Religious police 'kidnapped' in Syria

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Reports from Syria say that some members of the religious police force set up by the militant group Islamic State (IS) have been kidnapped.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Publisher / Source: 
BBC
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Terrorism
Policing

African Union says military still weakening Somalia's al Shabaab

Thursday, January 8, 2015
A military offensive by Somali and African Union forces has pushed al Shabaab Islamists into two dwindling pockets of territory, in the north and south, the AU's special envoy said.English
Country(s): 
Somalia
Author(s): 
Aaron Maasho
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation
Military Operations

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