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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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Canada Wants to Invest $44 Million in Colombia's Peace Process

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Canada’s government announced Tuesday it will donate more than US$44 million to support the peace agreement reached by Colombia. This will be destined to support five projects to help women and children who were victims of the internal armed conflict, said Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and Francophonie.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
TeleSur
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

Rights Group: Police Executions Undermine Brazil Security

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that a pattern of covering up police killings has thwarted efforts to curb violence in Rio de Janeiro's slums ahead of the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.English
Country(s): 
Brazil
Publisher / Source: 
New York Times
Wire Service: 
The Associate Press
Tag(s): 
Policing
Human Rights

Intelligence Services Torture Suspected Opponents

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Burundian intelligence services have tortured and ill-treated scores of suspected government opponents at their headquarters and in secret locations, Human Rights Watch said today. Police and members of the ruling party’s youth league, the Imbonerakure, have also committed serious abuses, often in collaboration with the intelligence services.English
Country(s): 
Burundi
Publisher / Source: 
Human Rights Watch
Tag(s): 
Intelligence
Civil-Military Relations

Unknown Assailants Abduct, Murder Activist in Honduras

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Another Indigenous activist has been murdered in Honduras, with local activists reporting Wednesday night that a woman identified as Yaneth Urquia Urquia was found dead near a garbage dump with severe head trauma.English
Country(s): 
Honduras
Publisher / Source: 
TeleSur
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Violence

Obama Says He Will Keep More Troops in Afghanistan Than Planned

Thursday, July 7, 2016
President Obama said Wednesday that he planned to leave 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan until the end of his term, further slowing the drawdown in a 14-year war that Mr. Obama pledged to end on his watch but now seems likely to grind on indefinitely.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Author(s): 
Mark Landler
Publisher / Source: 
New York Times
Tag(s): 
Terrorism
Security Assistance

How Drug Trafficking Operates, Corrupts in Central America

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Central America has long been a bridge that connects the producer countries in South America to the consumer nations in the north, principally the United States. This role has led to the development of several different types of criminal organizations, some of them transnational, some of them local, and many more of them hyper-local.English
Country(s): 
Central America Regional
Author(s): 
Steven Dudley
Publisher / Source: 
InSight Crime
Tag(s): 
Criminal Organizations
Drug Trade
Civil Society

Lack of Progress on NATO May Turn Georgia Towards Russia

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Ex-Soviet Georgia could start a gradual drift back into the orbit of its former overlord Russia if it does not see tangible signs soon that it will be invited to join NATO.English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Author(s): 
Margarita Antidze
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
NATO

Breakaway FARC Unit Opposes Peace Deal, Says It Will Not Disarm

Thursday, July 7, 2016
A unit of Colombia's FARC rebel group said on Wednesday that it will not lay down arms or demobilize under a potential peace deal with the government, the first public sign of opposition to an accord from within the rebel ranks that may set back efforts to end five decades of war.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
TeleSur
Tag(s): 
Peace Negotiations

U.S. Shifting Military Aid To Georgia To Help It Fight At Home

Thursday, July 7, 2016
The United States is shifting its military assistance to Georgia to help the country defend itself instead of preparing it for international deployments, with a new agreement signed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Tbilisi.English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Author(s): 
Josh Kucera
Publisher / Source: 
EurasiaNet
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

Mexican Lawmakers Revise Antigraft Legislation

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday passed a reworked version of anticorruption legislation, stripping out a controversial section that had been opposed by business groups and vetoed by President Enrique Peña Nieto.English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Juan Montes
Publisher / Source: 
The Wall Street Journal
Tag(s): 
Corruption

African Union Troops to Start Pulling out of Somalia in 2018

Thursday, July 7, 2016
African forces in Somalia, of which the Kenya Defense Forces are a part, should start withdrawing from October 2018, the African Union has said.English
Country(s): 
Somalia
Author(s): 
Aggrey Mutambo
Publisher / Source: 
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Tag(s): 
U.N. Peacekeeping
Military

India to Reinvigorate Ties With African Nations

Thursday, July 7, 2016
India's prime minister hopes his visit this week to four African nations, some not visited by an Indian leader in more than three decades, will reinvigorate cooperation in energy, trade and investment.English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Publisher / Source: 
News 24
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy

US-Israel Conclude 5-Day Missile Defense Tech Drill

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Technology developers from the US and Israel have concluded an intensive missile defense war game simulating five full days of coordinated, multidirectional missile and rocket attacks on the Israeli homefront, officials from both countries announced Wednesday.English
Country(s): 
Israel
Author(s): 
Barbara Opall-Rome
Publisher / Source: 
Defense News
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid

What Comes Next After Raqqa and Mosul?

Thursday, July 7, 2016
Obama is making U.S. special operators and locals do most of the fighting. When ISIS falls, Iraq and Syria need better leaders to keep this from happening again. So, what’s the plan?English
Country(s): 
Syria
Author(s): 
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Publisher / Source: 
Defense One
Tag(s): 
Security
Conflict

Near Russia’s Border With the Baltics, Soldiers on Both Sides Are Practicing for War

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
When unidentified aircraft were speeding toward northern Estonia one recent day, British fighter jets stationed nearby scrambled to intercept them. Screaming across the country, they quickly identified the targets: two Russian fighters and a spy plane. It was just the latest confrontation between the West and Russia in a region that has fast become a tripwire for conflict between nuclear superpowers.English
Country(s): 
Central and Eastern Europe Regional
Author(s): 
Michael Birnbaum
Publisher / Source: 
Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Military Exercises
Military Cooperation
NATO

Egyptian Navy to Get Four More Vessels From Swiftships

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
US shipbuilder Swiftships has been awarded a contract to build four 28 metre long coastal patrol vessel kits for Egypt, which will assemble the craft in Alexandria.English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Publisher / Source: 
defenceWeb
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

John Kerry Commits More U.S. Military Aid for Ex-Soviet Georgia

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry told ex-Soviet Georgia the United States would help it bolster its army as he reassured a close U.S. ally days before a NATO summit expected to focus on the threat a resurgent Russia poses.English
Country(s): 
Georgia
Author(s): 
Lesley Wroughton
Margarita Antidze
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Military and Police Aid
NATO

El Salvador Expands its Training Center for U.N. Peace Missions

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Thanks to the support of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the Salvadoran Armed Forces Peace Operations Center (CEOPAZ) opened three modern buildings within its training center for military personnel affiliated with peace keeping operations. English
Country(s): 
El Salvador
Author(s): 
Lorena Baires
Publisher / Source: 
Dialogo Americas
Tag(s): 
U.N. Peacekeeping
Military Cooperation

NATO Set to Approve Further Support for Afghanistan

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
After 15 years of conflict in Afghanistan and no sign of peace, NATO members meeting in Warsaw this week are expected to confirm their support for the Kabul government, aware that they have little alternative if the country is to hold together.English
Country(s): 
Afghanistan
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Security Assistance

NATO's $100 Billion Defense Budget Gap

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
NATO has a $100 billion problem. That’s the gap between what NATO countries have committed to spend on defense and what they actually spent in 2015. With global threats on the rise, $100 billion per year would mark a major increase in NATO’s ability to defend itself and maintain the peace in Europe. It seems that NATO members are spending $105 billion less per year on defense than they have committed, with non-U.S. NATO defense spending is 30 percent short of where it should be.English
Country(s): 
Europe and Eurasia Regional
Author(s): 
Justin T. Johnson
Publisher / Source: 
Real Clear Defense
Tag(s): 
NATO

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