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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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RFE/RL Reporter Briefly Detained, Questioned By Police In Azerbaijan

Monday, December 1, 2014
An RFE/RL correspondent has been briefly detained and questioned by police in Baku, and warned "not to be critical of the government." English
Country(s): 
Azerbaijan
Publisher / Source: 
RFE/RL
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Presidential Hopeful Scioli Sends Another 10.000 Police on the Beat in Buenos Aires Province

Monday, December 1, 2014
Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli has reinforced his 2015 electoral platform promoting law-and-order and tackling crime after inspecting the 10,000 police cadets that graduated from the Juan Vucetich academy. The police officers will be joining the Buenos Aires provincial police and will be soon patrolling Greater Buenos Aires, rural areas and will be part of communal police forces.English
Country(s): 
Argentina
Publisher / Source: 
MercoPress
Tag(s): 
Civil Society

U.S. Senators Urge Uzbek President To Release Prisoners

Monday, December 1, 2014
A group of U.S. Senators has urged Uzbek President Islam Karimov to release five prisoners whose detention "appears to be politically motivated."English
Country(s): 
Uzbekistan
Publisher / Source: 
RFE/RL
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Colombian Government Delegation to Resume Contact with Rebels

Monday, December 1, 2014
Negotiators from the Colombian government are to travel to Cuba Monday to resume contact with the leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, according to official sources. The move comes after FARC Sunday released Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate and two others with him, whose kidnapping had led to the suspension of the peace dialogue between the two parties.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
EFE
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

House Report Says CIA Monitored Arms Shipments to Syria

Monday, December 1, 2014
The CIA was spying on arms shipments from Libya to Syrian rebels at the time of the 2012 attack on its Benghazi facility, according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But a controversial Committee report asserts the CIA did not make “unauthorized” arms shipments to the Syrian rebels, further confusing what the two dozen officers and contractors were doing at the Libyan port city.English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Bill Gertz
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Free Beakon
Tag(s): 
Arms Control

U.S. advisers stay out of harm's way in Iraq

Monday, December 1, 2014
In a concerted effort to avoid combat, U.S. advisers in Iraq are pioneering new techniques for calling in airstrikes against Islamic State militants. The procedures allow U.S. pilots to bomb targets without the need for U.S. advisers on the ground to work alongside Iraqi forces.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Jim Michaels
Publisher / Source: 
USA Today
Tag(s): 
Conflict

PM: ‘Stronger Interior Ministry Means Strong State’

Monday, December 1, 2014
Prime Minister (PM) Irakli Garibashvili said on November 27 that “even stronger” Interior Ministry is a “prerequisite” of country’s “success and strength.” English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Publisher / Source: 
Civil Georgia
Tag(s): 
Policing

Iraq's Divisions Will Delay Counter-Offensive on Islamic State

Monday, December 1, 2014
U.S. air support and pledges of weapons and training for Iraq's army have raised expectations of a counter-offensive soon against Islamic State, but sectarian rifts will hamper efforts to forge a military strategy and may delay a full-scale assault. English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Dominic Evans
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Terrorism
Sectarianism

Saakashvili Charged With Abuse Of Office In Murder Case

Monday, December 1, 2014
Georgian prosecutors have charged former President Mikheil Saakashvili with complicity in the 2006 murder of banker Sandro Girgvliani.English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Publisher / Source: 
RFE/RL
Tag(s): 
Judicial Reform

US in Talks over Arab Boots on the Ground

Monday, December 1, 2014
The U.S. and allies are discussing the possibility of deploying ground forces from Arab nations to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to a top Republican lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Syria
Jordan
Qatar
Author(s): 
Kristina Wong
Publisher / Source: 
The Hill
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation
Terrorism

U.S. Seeks to Build Lean Iraqi Force to Fight the Islamic State

Monday, December 1, 2014
After learning hard lessons rebuilding foreign militaries over the past dozen years, the U.S. military is shifting its strategy against the Islamic State, choosing to train a smaller number of Iraqi soldiers rather than trying to stand up an entire army anew.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Missy Ryan
Eric Cunningham
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Terrorism

Debunking the Myth of Georgia’s East-West Divide

Monday, December 1, 2014
The recent dismissal and ensuing resignations of many prominent Georgian pro-Western ministers and deputies should not be read as any sort of slippage in Georgia’s deeply-ingrained West-facing stance. English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Author(s): 
Tedo Japaridze
Publisher / Source: 
The American Interest
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

Nordic-Baltic States To Deepen Cooperation

Monday, December 1, 2014
The governments of the Nordic and Baltic states have approved a new plan to deepen both defense cooperation and readiness between the militaries of the seven NATO and non-aligned nations. The intensified collaboration is happening against the backdrop of escalating regional tensions over Russia’s aggressive military actions in Ukraine.English
Country(s): 
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Author(s): 
Gerard O'Dwyer
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Military

Investigation Finds 50,000 ‘Ghost’ Soldiers in Iraqi Army, Prime Minister Says

Monday, December 1, 2014
The Iraqi army has been paying salaries to at least 50,000 soldiers who don’t exist, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Sunday, an indication of the level of corruption that permeates an institution that the United States has spent billions equipping and arming.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Loveday Morris
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Corruption
Military and Police Aid

U.S. Adds Planes to Bolster Drive to Wipe Out ISIS

Monday, December 1, 2014
The United States is shifting more attack and surveillance aircraft from Afghanistan to the air war against the Islamic State, deepening American involvement in the conflict and presenting new challenges for the military planners who work here in central South Carolina, far from the targets they will pick for those aircraft. A dozen A-10 ground-attack planes have recently moved from Afghanistan to Kuwait, where they are to start flying missions supporting Iraqi ground troops as early as this week, military officials said. About half a dozen missile-firing Reaper drones will also be redeployed from Afghanistan in the next several weeks.English
Country(s): 
Iraq
Author(s): 
Eric Schmitt
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Conflict
Terrorism

Fred Hiatt: The Tyranny You Haven’t Heard Of

Monday, December 1, 2014
You could call it a stealth North Korea: a country in the same league of repression and isolation as the Hermit Kingdom, but with far less attention paid to its crimes. The country is Uzbekistan, one of the Central Asian nations that emerged out of the wreckage of the Soviet Union in 1991.English
Country(s): 
Uzbekistan
Author(s): 
Fred Hiatt
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

U.S., Turkey Narrow Differences on Islamic State Fight

Monday, December 1, 2014
U.S. and Turkish officials have narrowed their differences over a joint military mission in Syria that would give the U.S. and its coalition partners permission to use Turkish air bases to launch strike operations against Islamic State targets across northern Syria, according to officials in both countries.English
Country(s): 
Turkey
Syria
Iraq
Author(s): 
Adam Entous
Publisher / Source: 
The Wall Street Journal
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation
Terrorism

Ivory Coast Army Protests Sow Fears of Return to Unrest

Monday, December 1, 2014
Protests by disgruntled soldiers in Ivory Coast have exposed the government's failure to reform its mutiny-plagued armed forces and its rapid capitulation sets a dangerous precedent in a country with bright economic prospects.English
Country(s): 
Ivory Coast
Author(s): 
Joe Bavier
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo News
Tag(s): 
Civil-Military Relations

U.S. Will Use Psych Evaluations, Stress Tests to Screen Syrian Rebels for Training

Monday, December 1, 2014
The U.S. military will subject Syrian rebels taking part in a new training program to psychological evaluations, biometrics checks and stress tests under a screening plan that goes well beyond the steps the United States normally takes to vet foreign soldiers, a sign of the risks the Obama administration faces as it expands support for armed groups in Syria.English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Missy Ryan
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
Terrorism

Anti-ISIS Coalition to Meet Next Week

Monday, December 1, 2014
Foreign dignitaries from around 60 countries that make up the international coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will meet for the first time next week, the State Department announced Wednesday.English
Country(s): 
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Jordan
Bahrain
United Arab Emirates
Iraq
Syria
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Author(s): 
Martin Matishak
Publisher / Source: 
The Hill
Tag(s): 
Terrorism

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