Foreign Policy
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 12:11
Assad's recalcitrance also highlights a critical flaw -- maybe even the original sin -- in the U.S-Russian deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons: the lack of a credible threat of action to compel Damascus to cooperate.
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 00:00
Covarrubias, a retired Chilean brigadier who is listed in an NDU document as a "professor of national security affairs," was charged three months ago with being involved in the deaths of seven political prisoners in Temuco, Chile, in 1973.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 08:49
"Between the 75,000 to 110,000 fighters inside Syria, "about 26,000 we'd rate as extremists," he said.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 06:58
January 18th, a Greek shipping firm lost radio contact with one of its vessels, a Liberian-flagged, 75,000-ton oil tanker named Kerala, when it was just a few miles off the port of Luanda, Angola. What happened next is still in dispute. But maritime experts think the Kerala's disappearance marks a dangerous new escalation of the oil-driven piracy that has increasingly tormented mariners across the infamous Bight of Benin.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:00
MK is three times as far from Kabul as Manas, but it will cost the United States less to use it overall than Manas, said Mark Blackington, a spokesman with U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East and southwest Asia.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 07:35
Instead, he lumped Iraq in with other countries with known terrorist networks inside their borders -- specifically, Somalia, Mali, and Yemen -- and pledged to merely "keep working with partners" to battle them.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 07:15
Menendez's committee has now agreed to the sale because the State Department adequately addressed his concerns, according to a Senate aide familiar with the matter.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:03
There's a catch, however: While the number of Iraq contractors on U.S. payrolls has plummeted, some of those same individuals are still there, working directly for the Iraqi government.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:49
A review of the events leading up to the diplomatic cockup reveals a series of missteps and misunderstandings, involving Ban and top American and Iranian officials, that threatened to upend one of the U.S.'s most important initiatives in the Middle East.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:47
One officer from the 123rd Brigade said that his fellow soldiers found two missiles next to the drone and detonated them based on the commander's order. "They did so for fear they would later explode and do harm."