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Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:25
The U.S. government is working hard to ensure quicker processing of U.S. foreign arms sales, which surged 36 percent to $46.6 billion in fiscal 2015 and look set to remain strong in coming years, a top Pentagon official said.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:24
March 26, 2015, a coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia, with United States participation, began a military campaign in Yemen that has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 2,500 civilians, mostly by coalition airstrikes.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:21
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Paris, President Obama wanted to make clear that much of the world was with the United States in fighting the Islamic State. The president has sought to evoke the sort of grand coalition the United States led in World War II. But when it comes to the war part of the war against the Islamic State, the 65-member coalition begins to shrink rapidly down to a coalition of just a handful.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:17
The United States has inactivated its only General Atomics MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) squadron in Africa, raising doubts over the ongoing use of UAVs from its deployments in Djibouti.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:17
As part of the annual multinational exercise UNITAS Amphibious 2015, Marines from eight countries (Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, United States, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru) participated in training workshops from November 15 - 18, at the Brazilian Navy’s Marine Corps Training Center at Ilha do Governador in Rio de Janeiro.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:12
Nicaragua's military said Friday all clandestine airfields used by cartels to run drugs to the United States were destroyed and steps taken to make sure they would not reopen.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:05
El Salvador's Supreme Court has charged the former director of the country's social security institute with illicit enrichment, highlighting the agency's deep-rooted susceptibility to corruption in Central America's Northern Triangle region.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 06:02
Mexico’s governmental human rights commission said Wednesday that excessive use of force by federal police resulted in six civilian deaths in a confrontation last January, including a person who was shot dead while he was already wounded on the ground and posed no threat to police.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 05:48
In this terrible reality spun out of the core war between the two main gangs — the Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13— no single group has been more tragically impacted than the young. The nation's youth is dying, and the young are doing the killing.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 05:41
A two-day workshop on tools and templates concluded Nov. 30 in Ashgabat, with the aim of enhancing local capacities in preventing terrorists crossing borders undetected using false identities, said the message of the OSCE.