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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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Mauritius receives Indian offshore patrol vessel

Monday, January 5, 2015
India’s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) have handed over to Mauritius a 1,300 ton offshore patrol vessel, three years after it was ordered to ensure maritime security around the island nation. English
Country(s): 
Mauritius
India
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Security

Tunisia Names Old Regime Veteran to Form New Government

Monday, January 5, 2015
Tunisia's largest political party chose a veteran from the country's former dictatorship as its candidate for prime minister Monday and he began work immediately on forming a coalition government.English
Country(s): 
Tunisia
Publisher / Source: 
ABC
Wire Service: 
AP

El Salvador: From a Broken Peace to Broken Windows

Monday, January 5, 2015
Reuters reports that the number of homicides in El Salvador increased an alarming 56 percent during the past year. “The National Civil Police reported 3,875 homicides in total as of December 30, compared with 2,490 [in 2013]. Just this month, police said, there was an average of 12 homicides daily.”English
Country(s): 
El Salvador
Author(s): 
Michael Busch
Publisher / Source: 
Warscapes
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade

U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement

Monday, January 5, 2015
Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility.English
Country(s): 
Kazakhstan
Author(s): 
Matt Spetalnick
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters (US)
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy
Human Rights

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's 5 mountainous challenges for 2015

Monday, January 5, 2015
Hoping to turn things around in 2015, Peña Nieto released a new year video, showing images of protests and violence transforming into images of progress and happiness. “We leave behind a year of challenges and learning,” Peña Nieto tweeted. “With integrity and determination, let’s welcome 2015.”English
Author(s): 
Ioan Grillo
Publisher / Source: 
Global Post
Tag(s): 
Governance
Governance

Béji Caïd Essebsi: My three goals as Tunisia’s president

Monday, January 5, 2015
Béji Caïd Essebsi explains his three goals as Tunisia’s president: We must solve the daunting economic and social problems that began in the Ben Ali era and were aggravated by three years of incompetent Islamist administration. We must establish security in a country surrounded by insecurity. And we must strengthen our young democracy at a time when hopes for democracy elsewhere in the region are failing to take root.English
Country(s): 
Tunisia
Author(s): 
Béji Caïd Essebsi
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Governance
Security

Meth seizures at U.S.-Mexico border soar in 2014

Monday, January 5, 2015
Seizures of methamphetamine soared at the U.S.-Mexico border during fiscal 2014, accelerating a trend that began several years ago as new laws that limited access to the drug’s chemical ingredients made it harder to manufacture it in the United States.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Wire Service: 
Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade
Security

IS Militants Asked Baghdadi For Permission To Fight 'Infidels' In Tajikistan

Monday, January 5, 2015
Militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq have published a video saying that they have asked permission from the group's senior leadership to wage jihad in Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik service has reported. English
Country(s): 
Tajikistan
Author(s): 
Joanna Paraszczuk
Publisher / Source: 
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Conflict

Frank: U.S. should rethink support for Honduras

Monday, January 5, 2015
President Obama has just broken through the Cold War wall to normalize relations with Cuba. But elsewhere in Latin America, in Honduras, his administration is supporting a terrifying military takeover. For the first time in the 16-year history of the position, the country's president has just named an active-duty general from the Armed Forces, Julián Pacheco Tinoco, to be the country's new Minister of Security, with full jurisdiction over the domestic police. Pacheco's ascendance is just the latest in a dangerous militarization of post-coup Honduras.English
Country(s): 
Honduras
Program(s): 
Foreign Military Financing
Author(s): 
Dana Frank
Publisher / Source: 
Houston Chronicle
Tag(s): 
Militarization
Human Rights

Islamist prisoners on hunger strike in Mauritania

Monday, December 29, 2014
A group of Islamists jailed in Mauritania for terrorist activity linked to al-Qaeda announced a hunger strike on Sunday, demanding an end to “arbitrary measures” including being denied parole and having to pay to be released. English
Country(s): 
Mauritania
Publisher / Source: 
Al Arabiya English (Saudi Arabia)
Wire Service: 
Agence France-Presse
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Sisi under Fire over Proposed Defamation Law

Thursday, December 18, 2014
Even loyal followers of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are up in arms about the proposed defamation law criminalizing the January 25 and June 30 revolutions. English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Ahmed Fouad
Publisher / Source: 
Al-Monitor
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Mexico Vigilantes in Deadly Shoot-out in Michoacan

Thursday, December 18, 2014
At least 11 people have been killed in clashes between rival vigilante groups in Michoacan state, western Mexico.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Publisher / Source: 
BBC
Tag(s): 
Civil Society

Prime Minister Says Government to Consider Reforming Prosecutor’s Office

Thursday, December 18, 2014
PM Irakli Garibashvili said on December 18 that government should consider “institutional reform” of the prosecutor’s office to increase its “independence” and “accountability.”English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Publisher / Source: 
Civil Georgia
Tag(s): 
Judicial Reform

Colombia's Leftist FARC Rebels Declare Unilateral Cease-fire

Thursday, December 18, 2014
Leftist rebels negotiating a peace agreement with the Colombian government on Wednesday declared a unilateral and indefinite cease-fire in hope of drawing a reciprocal halt by the armed forces, something President Juan Manuel Santos has so far resisted.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Chris Kraul
Publisher / Source: 
Los Angeles Times
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

Georgia: Freedom of Information Group Claims Police-Intimidation

Thursday, December 18, 2014
The detention of the head of a non-governmental organization promoting transparent government in Georgia has raised suspicions over the authorities' motivation.English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Author(s): 
Giorgi Lomsadze
Publisher / Source: 
EurasiaNet
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

'No Test' Declared for Arrow-3 Interceptor

Thursday, December 18, 2014
An Israeli Defense Ministry official on Wednesday characterized a test conducted the previous day of the new Arrow-3 as a “no test,” given that “conditions did not allow for” actual launch of the intercepting missile.English
Country(s): 
Israel
Author(s): 
Barbara Opall-Rome
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News

Uzbekistan Gears Up to Vote for Rubberstamp Parliament

Thursday, December 18, 2014
Uzbekistan's parliamentary elections on December 21 will offer voters a choice, but no hope for change. Only four staunchly pro-regime parties – the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the People’s Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, as well as the National Revival and the Justice parties – can field candidates for the elections to fill the 150-seat lower house, or the Legislative Chamber. English
Country(s): 
Uzbekistan
Author(s): 
Joanna Lillis
Publisher / Source: 
EurasiaNet
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Start of Iraqi Training Mission Still Months Away

Thursday, December 18, 2014
It's likely to be several months until the new American-led mission to train Iraqi soldiers gets underway, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Andrew Tilghman
Publisher / Source: 
Military Times
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Russian Sailors Finish Training at French Port, But Will Leave Without Warship

Thursday, December 18, 2014
Over 400 Russian sailors will soon leave the French port city where they received training on one of two warships that France agreed to sell to Russia, a deal that was delayed when relations between Russia and the West soured over the situation in Ukraine, the contractor building the ships said Wednesday.English
Country(s): 
Russia
France
Author(s): 
Aurelien Breeden
Maia de la Baume
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Arms Sales

Nations Conduct Largest Effort against ISIS

Thursday, December 18, 2014
The U.S. and coalition partners launched the single largest coalition effort against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) this week to help clear them from northwestern Iraq, according to a coalition spokesman. English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Kristina Wong
Publisher / Source: 
The Hill
Tag(s): 
Conflict

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