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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 05:04
The peace delegations of the Colombian government and the FARC called on the UN Security Council to approve a one-year, renewable, unarmed political mission to monitor and verify with the parties an anticipated bilateral ceasefire, and to oversee the cessation of hostilities, and setting aside of arms.Days later, the international community began to respond.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:22
His arrest in Spain only served to underscore the weakness of Mexico’s institutions when it comes to confronting corruption among the political class.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:19
Members of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday received a draft of a resolution that calls for establishing a U.N. mission to oversee disarmament should Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels reach a final peace deal.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:15
A common argument used in defense of the Mando Único policing model is that it is easier to build 32 good state police forces than to reform the more than 1800 municipal police departments that exist across Mexico. That plausibly-sounding argument would be way stronger if state police forces were shining examples of reform and modernization.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:10
After spending more than $33 million on a widely discredited election in Haiti, the United States has been pressing the country’s leaders to go ahead with a presidential runoff election this Sunday, despite a growing chorus of warnings that the vote could lead to an explosion of violence.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:01
IT IS rare nowadays to find an American foreign policy that is a clear success. Yet that applies to Plan Colombia. For Colombia to be a viable democracy, it needed a stronger state able to provide security to its citizens and to tame the illegal armies, which were financed by the world’s cocaine habit. It worked.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 06:55
As the fifth anniversary of Jan. 25 protests that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule approaches, the toughest security crackdown in Egypt's history is a clear sign that authorities are worried.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 06:49
The United States is accelerating efforts to help Turkey clamp down on its border with Syria, senior U.S. officials said, and for the first time will offer technologies to Ankara to help it secure the frontier.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 06:49
In Paris, French Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian and I co-hosted our counterparts from Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Those countries have been the biggest contributors to the counter-ISIL campaign. The military actions that the United States and our partners have taken in recent months have applied unprecedented pressure on ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 06:46
U.S. special operations troops have reportedly taken over an airfield in northeastern Syria, potentially clearing the way to flow more American military support to friendly militias fighting the Islamic State group.