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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:49
The events reveal that the security forces intimidated and encircled the demonstrators, violating the principle of proportionality when dispersing the protest, and gave chase through the streets of downtown São Paulo.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:45
El Salvador's two main political parties are scrambling to respond to the nation's historically high homicide rate, but neither appears to be proposing any novel security strategies.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:42
Counterterrorism officials regard the Libyan branch as the Islamic State’s most dangerous affiliate, but to stop its advance, the U.S. has been forced to court unreliable allies from among a patchwork of Libyan militias that remain unaccountable, poorly organized and divided by region and tribe
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:42
Seven current and former Venezuela military officials are to be tried for allowing illegal drug flights to transit through the country, in a small-scale prosecution that continues to leave the highest ranks of corrupt military untouched.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:40
The Uzbek government, lobbied by rights groups and pressured quietly by the United States to free a high-profile political prisoner, has finally revealed a secret: He died five years ago. Akram Yuldashev, one of the most prominent religious leaders in post-Soviet Central Asia, died in prison in 2010 at the age of 52, the Uzbek authorities confirmed this month.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:38
In 2015, the Afghan army had to replace about a third of its roughly 170,000 soldiers because of desertions, casualties and low re-enlistment rates, according to figures released by the U.S. military last month. That means a third of the army consists of first-year recruits fresh off a three-month training course.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:35
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has signed a law that imposes tougher sentences on the perpetrators of acid attacks.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:34
U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group likely killed eight civilians and injured three more, U.S. Central Command said in a release Friday.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:23
Almost every aspect of the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been scrutinized, lambasted or praised in recent months, but one of the most significant facets, the CIA’s covert aid program to Syrian rebels, has largely slipped below the radar.
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 08:03
After meeting with Peru’s Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines described Ollanta Humala’s government as key partner in the fight against drug trafficking.