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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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France-Egypt Mistral Deal: Cairo To Receive First Military Aircraft Carrier Following Agreement

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
France will hand over the first of two Mistral-class warships to Egypt in a port in southwestern France, local news sources in Egypt and France reported Wednesday. English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Jess McHugh
Publisher / Source: 
International Business Times
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales
Military Equipment

Africa’s 'Forgotten' but Growing International Security Threat: The Information Revolution

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
The information revolution stands poised to bring new cyber security challenges to the forefront as African economies develop and access to technology expands. English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Chanda Adebola
Publisher / Source: 
Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
Tag(s): 
Security

New Operation Against Bogotá Drug Hub Raises Old Issues

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
A massive security operation in Bogotá's nefarious Bronx neighborhood reveals how powerful microtrafficking gangs in the city have become -- and the Colombian government's lack of a long-term plan for restoring order to urban enclaves dominated by criminal groups.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Michael Lohmuller
Publisher / Source: 
InSight Crime
Tag(s): 
Counternarcotics
Human Trafficking

U.S. Drone Strike in Pakistan Renews Calls for Transparency

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
In Pakistan alone, the U.S. has carried out 391 air strikes since 2008, according to The Long War Journal. In Yemen, U.S. strikes targeting al-Qaida commanders total 145 since 2002. The figures are based on press reports. Human rights groups have long called for hard numbers when it comes to counterterrorism strikes that until recently the administration refused to even confirm. “Saying ‘just trust us, we have high standards, we are doing the best we can’ really isn’t enough and that they need to be disclosing more,” said Rita Siemion of Human Rights First.English
Country(s): 
Pakistan
Author(s): 
Aru Pande
Publisher / Source: 
Voice of America
Tag(s): 
Transparency

U.S. Senators Seek to Regulate Saudi War in Yemen

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Senators Rand Paul, a Republican, and Chris Murphy, a Democrat, want to amend the National Defence Authorisation Act to link the provision of US weapons and ammunitions to Saudi Arabia to a presidential certification.English
Country(s): 
Saudi Arabia
Publisher / Source: 
The Kashmir Monitor
Tag(s): 
Arms Sales

Ukraine Proposes Working With U.S. To Replace Russian Rockets

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Ukraine has proposed that Kyiv and the United States jointly develop and produce a rocket engine to replace Russian rocket engines currently used to launch U.S. military satellites.English
Country(s): 
Ukraine
Publisher / Source: 
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment

Buhari's Crackdown in Nigeria Fails to Stamp out Boko Haram

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Despite electoral promises that Boko Haram would be eliminated within twelve months, the terror group still ranks as one of the most deadly and poses a serious security threat in the northern areas of the country.English
Country(s): 
Nigeria
Author(s): 
Simon Tisdall
Publisher / Source: 
The Guardian
Tag(s): 
Counterinsurgency

ANCA Presses for Full Implementation of Royce-Engel Karabagh Peace Proposals

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
During a shared dialogue with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), who, along with Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), is the chief architect of the Karabagh peace recommendations, ANCA Chairman Raffi Hamparian discussed the Aliyev regime’s devastating incursion against Artsakh—the worst since the ceasefire established some 22 years ago—and the ensuing Azerbaijani war crimes, including the brutal murder and mutilation of an elderly Armenian couple and the beheading of three Armenian soldiers. The ANCA has been joined by senior Foreign Affairs Committee member Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and Armed Services Committee member Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) in calling for a “Leahy Law” investigation, which would zero-out U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijani units found to have committed war crimes.English
Country(s): 
Armenia
Publisher / Source: 
The Armenian Weekly
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Turkey Offers Joint Ops with U.S. Forces in Syria, Wants Kurds Cut Out

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Ankara is offering to begin joint counterterrorism operations with American forces to clear a key pocket of Islamic State territory along the Turkish-Syrian border, but with one catch: Kurdish forces cannot be part of the deal.English
Country(s): 
Turkey
Author(s): 
Carlo Munoz
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Times
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation
Counterterrorism

Navies of Peru and Bolivia Expand Joint Patrols on Lake Titicaca

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
The Peruvian and Bolivian Navies conducted joint exercises on Lake Titicaca to improve their skills in search and rescue missions, contamination containment, and the fight against organized crime. The joint exercises will allow cooperation in the fight against mutual threats and problems, like drug trafficking, money laundering, smuggling, human trafficking.English
Country(s): 
Peru
Bolivia
Author(s): 
Julieta Pelcastre
Publisher / Source: 
Dialogo
Tag(s): 
Military Cooperation
Counternarcotics

More Than a Technocratic Exercise: National Security Strategy Development in Africa

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
To meet 21st Century security challenges, national security strategies across the African continent are evolving to put economic development as a core facet. English
Country(s): 
Africa Regional
Author(s): 
Paul Nantulya
Publisher / Source: 
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Tag(s): 
Security

5 Countries That Violate the OAS Democratic Charter

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
The Democratic Charter of the Organization for American States, OAS, has 28 articles and a quick look through them, available on the body’s website, reveals that many governments have been violating them and yet have received no action against them form the organization.English
Country(s): 
Brazil
Colombia
Argentina
Mexico
Honduras
Publisher / Source: 
TeleSur
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Corruption

Phoenix Express 2016 concludes

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Maritime forces from North Africa, Europe, and the United States concluded exercise Phoenix Express 2016 with closing ceremonies in Souda Bay, Greece, on 27 May.English
Country(s): 
Middle East and North Africa Regional
Author(s): 
U.S. Navy
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Military Exercises

Criminal Truces in Latin America: The Ultimate Catch-22

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
A recent report examining the effect of criminal truces in Latin America is both promising and discouraging; although we have the tools to bring a measure of peace to the underworld, they are hard for most governments to swallow and can lead to even more violence down the road. English
Country(s): 
Colombia
El Salvador
Author(s): 
David Gagne
Publisher / Source: 
InSight Crime
Tag(s): 
Criminal Organizations
Criminal Organizations
Counternarcotics

Namibia Receives Russian Small Arms

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Namibia has received a batch of small arms from Russia to equip its Marine Corps as part of contracts signed in previous years.English
Country(s): 
Namibia
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Security Assistance
Arms Sales

Mauritania Commissions New Chinese Offshore Patrol Boats

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
The Mauritanian Navy has commissioned into service two new offshore patrol boats from China as part of efforts to bolster maritime security in the North African nation.English
Country(s): 
Mauritania
Publisher / Source: 
Defence Web
Tag(s): 
Military Equipment
Security

U.N. Says Four Killed in Attacks on Two of its Mali Sites

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Attacks on United Nations sites in northern Mali killed four people, including one peacekeeper, and wounded more than a dozen, the U.N. mission said on Wednesday.English
Country(s): 
Mali
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
U.N. Peacekeeping
Violence

Special Report: After University Crackdown, Egyptian Students Fear For Their Future

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
His reaction was not unusual. The murder of Italian postgraduate student Giulio Regeni has focused new attention on alleged police brutality in Egypt, but nearly a dozen local students have told Reuters they have been targeted over the past three years and regularly face violence and harassment at the hands of security forces. English
Country(s): 
Egypt
Author(s): 
Amina Ismail
Publisher / Source: 
Reuters
Tag(s): 
Policing
Human Rights

Tested by Russia, NATO Struggles to Stay Credible

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Six weeks before a critical summit meeting aimed at bolstering NATO’s deterrence against a resurgent Russia, the alliance is facing a long list of challenges. The first is to find a country to lead the last of four military units to be deployed in Poland and the three Baltic nations. But that, analysts say, could be the least of its problems.English
Country(s): 
Central and Eastern Europe Regional
Author(s): 
Steven Erlanger
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
NATO

Mexican Authorities Filled a Mass Grave, and Now the Government Is Exhuming the Bodies

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
During the last decade of extreme violence associated with Mexico's drug wars, Mexicans have become used to the discovery and exhumation of clandestine graves filled with victims of the horror. This month, the authorities are digging up a shady grave with a difference — the corpses were put there by the government. English
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Nathaniel Janowitz
Publisher / Source: 
Vice News
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
Extrajudicial Killings

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