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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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Israeli $800M V-22 Deal Not Dead: Just Hovering

Friday, December 12, 2014
Reports that Israel’s plan to buy a dozen V-22 Osprey tiltrotor troop transports is dead are — as Mark Twain said after reading his own incorrect obituary — greatly exaggerated. A U.S. Letter of Agreement offering a bargain price and early delivery of the first six of 12 Ospreys requested by Israel formally expired on Wednesday amid political turmoil in Tel Aviv and new elections scheduled for March 17. But a source close to the program said the Israeli Ministry of Defense sent a letter to the U.S. government this week asking that the U.S. offer be put on ice — not withdrawn — until a new Israeli government takes power in 2015.English
Country(s): 
Israel
Author(s): 
Richard Whittle
Publisher / Source: 
Breaking Defense
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

A Force to Fight ISIS Has Manpower, but Little Firepower

Friday, December 12, 2014
Smoking cigarettes in a tent with a dirt floor just outside an isolated village in northern Iraq, the police officers recalled the heady days working alongside American forces and launching dozens of operations to kill and capture Qaeda militants in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Ben Hubbard
Publisher / Source: 
The New York Times
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Terrorism

3,000 Uzbek Officers, Cadets to Get Training in Russia

Friday, December 12, 2014
A source at Uzbekistan's Defense Ministry told RFE/RL on December 11 that Uzbek military officers and students at Uzbek military schools will receive training at Russian military schools in 2015.English
Country(s): 
Uzbekistan
Russia
Publisher / Source: 
RFE/RL
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Piracy in Nigeria: Just Getting Going?

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Nigerian piracy is unique for several reasons. It accounts for 71% percent of all incidents in West Africa, and the methods used by Nigerian pirates are highly profitable. English
Author(s): 
Ioannis Mantzikos
Publisher / Source: 
African Arguments
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Obama: U.S. Offers Mexico Help on Missing Students

Thursday, December 11, 2014
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. has offered to help Mexico figure out what happened to 43 college students who have been missing since September, but he stopped short of saying that aid to the U.S. ally and neighbor should be reconsidered on the basis of the country's human rights record.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Darlene Superville
Publisher / Source: 
ABC
Tag(s): 
Security Assistance
Policing

African States Review Counter-Terror Strategy

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Officials from across Africa just wrapped up a two-day conference in Algiers focused on developing better counter-terror policies.English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Publisher / Source: 
Magharebia
Tag(s): 
Counterterrorism

7 Ways the $104 Billion Reconstruction Effort in Afghanistan Could Fail

Thursday, December 11, 2014
The watchdog agency for the $104 billion that the U.S. has pledged for the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan says rampant corruption could derail rebuilding the nation after 13 years of war.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Ben Watson
Publisher / Source: 
Defense One
Tag(s): 
Corruption
Counternarcotics

Namibia Defence Force Orders Marrua Vehicles

Thursday, December 11, 2014
The Namibia Defence Force (NDF) has ordered 141 Marrua utility vehicles from Brazil’s Agrale, with deliveries already underway.English
Country(s): 
Namibia
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

APNewsBreak: US ends control of Afghan prison

Thursday, December 11, 2014
The United States on Wednesday released the final three detainees from the Parwan Detention Center in Afghanistan, ending the U.S. operation of any prisons in the country after more than a decade of war, the Pentagon said.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Lolita Baldor
Publisher / Source: 
Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Security Assistance

Drug Violence, Climate Change Create Ceaseless Wave of Latin American Refugees

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Drug-fueled gang violence and extreme weather linked to climate change are forcing tens of thousands of people in Latin America to flee their homes every year, according to Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. English
Country(s): 
Western Hemisphere Regional
Author(s): 
Anastasia Moloney
Publisher / Source: 
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tag(s): 
Civil Society

A Deteriorating Afghanistan Needs a Revised Timetable on U.S. Troops

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Not Much attention was paid in Washington to the formal end Monday of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan. The 13-year-old war is something most Americans, led by their president, are eager to put behind them. That’s unfortunate, because far from fading away, the fighting in Afghanistan is intensifying — and so is the threat it poses to everything that the U.S.-led coalition accomplished.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Military Operations

Drug Violence, Climate Change Create Ceaseless Wave of Latin American Refugees

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Drug-fueled gang violence and extreme weather linked to climate change are forcing tens of thousands of people in Latin America to flee their homes every year, according to Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. English
Country(s): 
Western Hemisphere Regional
Author(s): 
Anastasia Moloney
Publisher / Source: 
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tag(s): 
Civil Society

Afghan Aid From U.S. Should Come With Conditions, Inspector Says

Thursday, December 11, 2014
The U.S. should make continued aid to Afghanistan contingent on strict financial oversight of government ministries as foreign troops withdraw, according to an American inspector general.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Tony Capaccio
Publisher / Source: 
Bloomberg
Tag(s): 
Corruption

Rebels in Northern Syria Say U.S. Has Stopped Paying Them

Thursday, December 11, 2014
The United States has stopped paying most of the pro-western rebels fighting in northern Syria and has suspended the delivery of arms to them, rebel commanders told McClatchy Tuesday.English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Mousab Al Hamadee
Roy Gutman
Publisher / Source: 
McClatchy DC
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Terrorism

African military profile: Egypt

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Egypt has the strongest military in Africa and is in the midst of strengthening it further with the acquisition of frigates, armoured vehicles, missiles, combat and transport aircraft and other hardware. Although the United States has been a major equipment supplier, the temporary suspension of American deliveries has caused Egypt to look East for its arms.English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Jordan Luke Griffiths
Guy Martin
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web (South Africa)
Tag(s): 
Military

JASSMs to Equip Polish F-16s

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Poland’s Ministry of Defense has signed a deal with Lockheed Martin to acquire AGM-158 joint air-to-surface standoff missiles (JASSMs) for its fleet of 48 F-16 fighter jets. The contract is worth about US $250 million, the ministry said in a statement.English
Author(s): 
Jaroslaw Adamowski
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Syrian Rebel Program Months from Starting

Thursday, December 11, 2014
A program to train and equip 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels will begin in March and will not be completed until a year later in 2016, a senior State Department official told lawmakers on Wednesday. English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Kristina Wong
Publisher / Source: 
The Hill
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
U.S. Congress
Military and Police Aid

Government Mulls Interior Ministry Reform

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on December 10 that time has come to “launch discussions” about reforming the Interior Ministry with the view of possible separation of security and intelligences agencies from the ministry. English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Publisher / Source: 
Civil Georgia
Tag(s): 
Security Sector Reform

Georgia Condemns Russia's Deals With Breakaway Territories

Thursday, December 11, 2014
Foreign Ministry spokesman Davit Kereselidze said in Tbilisi on December 11 that the Georgian delegation at a new round of talks with Russia in Geneva condemned the treaty, calling it "illegal."English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Publisher / Source: 
RFE/RL
Tag(s): 
Military

Protesters In Georgia, Moldova Demand Release Of Ismayilova

Thursday, December 11, 2014
About 50 protesters have demonstrated outside Azerbaijan's embassy in Tbilisi, demanding that Azerbaijan's government release Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and contributor to RFE/RL.English
Country(s): 
Azerbaijan
Publisher / Source: 
RFE/RL
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

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