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Friday, October 14, 2016 - 07:27
On the heels of opening its first permanent base in the Middle East, Russia is reportedly considering opening more military bases overseas in Cuba, Vietnam, and in South America as it attempts to broaden its presence as a global military power.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 06:00
Offshore companies offer nearly impenetrable anonymity for their true owners. It is little surprise, then, that scattered among the harmless-sounding companies registered in places like the Seychelles, the British Virgin Islands and Panama are entities used by drug traffickers, their relatives and their intermediaries.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 06:11
When armed groups lay down their weapons, women have rarely been part of the conflict negotiations.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 06:34
U.S.-backed Arab militias began a new offensive against the Islamic State in eastern Syria this week, a bid to flush the extremists out of a key transit zone for fighters, weapons and oil, according to defected military officers leading the Arab group.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 06:11
More than a week after the Pentagon announced that it had dropped 50 tons of ammunition to Syrian Arabs to support a new offensive against Islamic State extremists, it’s uncertain who exactly it reached.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 06:12
The 15 Chechens looking to cross the border from Turkey to Syria didn’t strike Abdullah as particularly important or unusual.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 05:59
The kidnapping of a group of U.S.-trained moderate Syrians moments after they entered Syria last month to confront the Islamic State was orchestrated by Turkish intelligence, multiple rebel sources have told McClatchy.
Monday, August 10, 2015 - 06:53
The Pentagon pushed back Friday against claims that its program to train Syrian fighters to help defeat the Islamic State is in tatters, asserting that two new classes of recruits are underway and noting that in any case, the United States is increasingly relying on other fighting groups.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:18
The United States has opened a new front in northern Syria, bombing Islamic State targets in two locations near the Turkish border – away from Kobani, the Kurdish enclave that has been the main focus of U.S. airstrikes the past nine months.
Monday, May 18, 2015 - 10:59
Iraqi security forces attempting to retake control of the western city of Ramadi were routed in heavy fighting Sunday, the worst defeat for Iraq’s central government since Islamic State militants stormed across the country last June. In a replay of last year’s military debacle, elite units abandoned their U.S.-provided equipment to Islamic State fighters and fled the area.