Military and Police Aid
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 06:22
The Obama administration is considering providing an emergency aid package to the cash-strapped Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq after concluding that the KRG's inability to pay Peshmerga fighters their salaries poses a threat to the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State, U.S. officials said.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 06:18
U.S. Marines are in their fifth week working alongside Senegalese armed forces partners, mentoring and advising a demining course for the West African nation.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 06:12
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon hopes to finalize details on an American ten-year military aid package to Israel “very soon,” he said while on a visit here to meet with top US officials.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 07:25
Officers from the Latvian armed forces have joined soldiers from the United States, Lithuania, Canada and the UK in the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 07:23
U.K. military instructors and advisers have trained 2,000 Ukrainian servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom Michael Fallon made a statement, U.K. Ministry of Defence told the Ukrinform’s own correspondent in Belgum.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 06:46
The outgoing commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan pressed civilian leaders in the months before he left Kabul to expand the American role there, shedding light on what he called a slow and inefficient decision-making process as he prepares to retire.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 06:45
When pirates hijacked the MT MAXIMUS in the Gulf of Guinea in mid-February, collaboration between four West African nations, with assistance from the U.S. and France, allowed the African navies to track, interdict the vessel, free 18 hostages and apprehend the pirates.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 06:39
The military government in Egypt, is cracking down hard on its restive citizenry — harder than any time in memory. And the United States, which sends the country over a $1 billion a year in security aid, is looking the other way.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 06:32
A push to restart the Pentagon’s program to train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is facing early opposition from Congress.
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 06:23
Britain said Saturday it was sending more troops to Iraq to bolster its mission training up the armed forces taking on the Islamic State jihadist group.