Military and Police Aid
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:47
By the time it is finished, Operation Dragoon Ride, which began a week ago in the Baltics and is due to conclude later this week, will be the longest such movement the United States Army has made across Europe since Gen. George S. Patton diverted his Third Army to relieve Bastogne, Belgium, in 1944.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 08:30
In the wake of the hostage shootout at Bardo Museum in Tunis that left more than twenty dead, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently announced that U.S. military aid to Tunisia would triple to combat “those who threaten the freedom and safety of the nation.” The renewed global focus on countering violent extremism, however, should also draw scrutiny to an opaque security sector that continues to act with impunity.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 08:12
Ambassador Frederic C. Hof states in the report that train and equip program for Syria needs to be put on steroids. To do so efficiently will require secure areas in Syria protected from regime air attacks and from ground attacks mounted by the regime, ISIL, and other extremists. This will require American leadership; not American boots on the ground.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 06:58
Just 11 days after President Obama resumed U.S. military aid to Egypt , Mohamed Soltan, a 27-year-old American, was sentenced to life in prison on trumped-up charges, in defiance of numerous public and private demands by senior U.S. officials for his release.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 07:03
The first of more than 300 Australian troops will leave for Iraq on Wednesday on a two-year training mission that Tony Abbott says will not be "risk-free". The Prime Minister also pointedly declined to rule out expanding Australian air strikes into Syria.
Monday, April 13, 2015 - 06:57
The United States will increase military aid to Tunisia threefold this year and help train its troops, a senior U.S official said on Friday, weeks after the country suffered its deadliest militant attack in more than a decade.
Monday, April 13, 2015 - 06:56
Iraq's prime minister is leaving for Washington for talks with U.S. President Barrack Obama, whom he is expected to ask for substantial weapons deliveries.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 12:39
A recent article in the Mexican newspaper, Milenio, highlighted the significant amount of military training the United States is providing to Mexican security forces.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 06:47
On April 7 the State Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report on the Dushanbe embassy's activities, and among the issues it investigated was U.S. military aid policy in the context of the controversial 2012 military operation in Khorog. In that operation, special forces units -- which have been the focus of extensive U.S. training and equipping programs -- opened indiscriminate fire in the town, killing about 20 civilians. That raised questions about whether the aid was in violation of U.S. laws that try to prevent military aid going to human rights violators.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 07:08
Despite Egypt's new U.S.-acquired jets, tanks and missiles, the Washington-Cairo relationship is running on fumes.