Military and Police Aid
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 07:10
Instructors of the 201th military base completed the annual training program for the army of Tajikistan training more than one thousand gunners and drivers of tanks and fighting vehicles, commanders and gunners of multiple launch rocket systems and other specialists.
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 05:46
The Pentagon plans to announce significant roll backs in the U.S. program to back rebel factions in Syria, possibly shifting to more contacts with Kurdish forces that have battled the Islamic State, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 07:22
Joy erupted in the streets of Guatemala in early September, after months of demonstrations had forced the congress to strip presidential immunity from President Otto Perez Molina, who then resigned and was subsequently jailed on corruption charges.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 07:05
“U.S. Financing Fails to Sustain Foreign Forces” (front page, Oct. 4), about the routine failures of American foreign arms and training programs to meet their objectives, underscores the need for a move away from reliance on these programs as a central component of United States strategy.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 06:45
A bill on defense expenditures in 2016 fiscal year which started October 1 was amended with provisions regarding military assistance to Ukraine.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 06:37
U.S. Marines and Gabon’s Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, or ANPN, worked together Sept. 14-25, at the Pongara National Forest to help the nation’s fight against wildlife trafficking.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 12:35
This article was originally published in Lobeblog.
“We have seen what has happened, that the people were not in favor of it [coup d’état]. That is why we gave it up.” This was Gen. Gilbert Diendéré’s ad-libbed apology for the coup d’état he recently instigated in the West African country of Burkina Faso.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 06:31
The general behind Burkina Faso’s failed coup was charged, together with a former top aide to ousted president Blaise Compaoré, with “murder” and “attacking state security” on Tuesday, judicial sources said.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 06:44
U.S. military training to the elite African units known as "presidential guards" spells trouble for stable and democratic governance on the continent.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 06:41
Reports that China helped Pakistan's military acquire armed drones are wrong, according to the head of the Pakistani air force, who said engineers in his nation developed the technology on their own and Washington should increase coordination with Islamabad to target and eliminate al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.