Military and Police Aid
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 06:26
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops deployed to Iraq will likely increase, citing the recent success in taking the city of Ramadi back from the Islamic State and a need to train more Iraqi military and police units as the campaign against the militants expands.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:30
Cameroon’s military is apparently receiving a number of Ratel infantry fighting vehicles, which have been deployed with its Rapid Intervention Battalion.
This is according to IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, which quotes a Cameroonian military source saying that the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) is now operating Ratel 20s. Deliveries began in December 2015, according to the source, and the BIR now has 12 with its Light Intervention Units deployed to the Far North province, where the force is leading operations against Boko Haram militants.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:23
Almost every aspect of the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been scrutinized, lambasted or praised in recent months, but one of the most significant facets, the CIA’s covert aid program to Syrian rebels, has largely slipped below the radar.
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 06:56
Russian troops have been conducting military exercises in the breakaway province of South Ossetia this week, as well as in the North Caucasus.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:24
Does the US’ International Military Education and Training (IMET) program successfully professionalize the unprofessional, institutionalize civilian control over armed forces, and create enduring “ties that bind”? Today, Duraid Jalili weighs the pros and cons of the IMET program and where it is going in the future.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 07:38
It has been more than four years since the Obama administration announced its “pivot” or “rebalance” toward Asia, which amounted to a comprehensive strategy to militarily encircle China, undermine its economic influence in the region and compel Beijing to submit to Washington’s diktats. Rather, this confrontation must be pursued globally, according to senior military officials, with particular attention given to growing Chinese influence in Latin America.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 06:22
The Pentagon is weighing a request from Turkish officials to help train and equip Sunni Arab fighters inside Syria as part of an effort to secure Turkey's southern border, a long-sought goal of the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials.
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 06:55
South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir, has sacked several top police generals, including inspector general of police two days after his government lost the ministry of interior to the armed opposition faction of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) under the leadership of former vice-president, Riek Machar. The purged generals included a long serving police inspector general, Pieng Deng Kuol and his deputy, Andrew Kuol Nyuon, and have been replaced with Makur Arol as new inspector general and Biel Ruot as his deputy.
Friday, January 8, 2016 - 06:54
The congressional defense panels have released some — but not all — of the remaining funds for the $500 million Syria train-and-equip program that Defense Secretary Ash Carter says is crucial to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 08:48
Col. Gulmurod Halimov was once on the fast track within the security service of his native Tajikistan, and trusted by the U.S. government. A month later, the U.S.-trained commander resurfaced in an Islamic State propaganda video.