Military and Police Aid
Monday, November 9, 2015 - 06:06
An ex-Jordanian police officer opened fire on contractors at a police training center Monday, killing two Americans and a third man and leaving many others wounded.
Monday, November 9, 2015 - 05:45
The next stage of the drills where the U.S. military will train six battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is going to start on November 23, 2015, according to Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman Andriy Lysenko.
Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 10:44
The State Department’s Directorate for Defense Trade Controls has proposed a rule change that could loosen oversight of private security companies and exacerbate the problems we’ve seen with them.
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 08:55
Deputy Assistant Secretary Benjamin G. Ziff shares a testimony in front of the SFRC Europe Subcommittee regarding the U.S. interests in Ukraine.
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 06:32
Delegates from the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) visited Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, recently to learn best practices from directorates within Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa and build relationships between the two organizations. The EASF and CJTF-HOA plan to work together to coordinate timely disaster relief, security and peacetime operations.
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 06:24
The Iraqi Army is moving slowly but making progress as it continues to ramp up training, according to Task Force Panther leaders recently returned from a nine-month mission where it trained and advised more than 12,400 Iraqi soldiers.
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 06:13
When the Pentagon pulled the plug last month on its plan to train and field a force of moderate Syrians to combat the Islamic State, it had spent $384 million, or $2 million per fighter, for a program that produced dismal results, according to interviews and spending figures obtained by USA TODAY.
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 06:52
Evelyn Farkas, who stepped down last week as the Pentagon’s top policy official for Russia and Ukraine, says the U.S. should open a military base in Eastern Europe to send a message to Vladimir Putin.
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 06:36
Israel has made an initial request for its annual U.S. defence aid to increase to as much as $5 billion (£3.25 billion) when its current aid package, worth an average $3 billion a year, expires in 2017, U.S. congressional sources said on Wednesday.
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 06:12
The U.S. and its regional allies agreed to increase shipments of weapons and other supplies to help moderate Syrian rebels hold their ground and challenge the intervention of Russia and Iran on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. officials and their counterparts in the region said.