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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:35
In all these troubled lands, AFRICOM hopes to develop a cadre of regional soldiers to serve as the main peacekeeping forces and disaster-assistance providers for a generation to come. Washington's strategy must go beyond mere weapons training.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:33
Russia will provide all possible assistance to Tajikistan’s army by supplying weapons and military equipment, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told Tajik Defense Minister Sherali Mirzo on Wednesday.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:31
“A match could be laid down, lighting up whole communities that have so far stayed peaceful," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power says. “Right now we are in a world of trying to prevent a small fire from becoming a large one,” she adds. Power blames a Burundian president “in denial,” and an opposition aided by Rwanda that has “radicalized over time.”
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:29
The U.S. faces a years-long financial commitment in Afghanistan but must stay the course despite enduring another difficult year on the ground, Gen. John Campbell, who is ending his tenure as commander of coalition forces there, told lawmakers Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:17
The Pentagon plans to sharply increase spending on the fight against the Islamic State group and potentially put more American troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria later this year, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:05
With the fight against the Islamic State in its second year, American forces and their peshmerga counterparts have become deeply entwined.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:02
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called out members of “our so-called coalition” Tuesday for not doing more to fight the Islamic State group, commonly known as ISIL or ISIS.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:59
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that members of the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State had agreed at a meeting here to intensify their efforts to defeat the group, but he ruled out sending United States forces to intervene in Libya, where the Sunni extremists are pressing to claim territory.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:09
Santos made the request during a January 28 interview with the Associated Press (AP) at the presidential palace in Bogotá, saying it would be appropriate for the United States to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC) from a State Department list of terrorist organizations once a peace deal is signed.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:07
Raids over the weekend resulted in the arrest of two alleged leaders of a powerful drug trafficking network, the culmination of a six-month investigation that may only have scratched the surface of the group's activities in Honduras.