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Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:16
Germany is ready to send up to 650 soldiers to Mali to bolster the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the West African country and to help France in the region, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:13
Last week, close watchers of the many-sided war in Iraq and Syria learned from an apparently inadvertent Russian state television disclosure that Russia has upped the ante in its eight-week-old war in Syria, apparently adding ground-based artillery to the array of attack jets, strategic bombers, and helicopter gunships that have been pounding Islamic State terrorists and U.S.-backed rebels alike in the country.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:11
South Sudan is at risk of sinking into a cycle of revenge killings on a large scale, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he recommended an extra 1,100 peacekeepers be deployed to the world's youngest nation.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:10
The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:07
The problem, it appeared, lay in who controlled the transit of illegal drugs through the city which had long been in the hands of the Sinaloa cartel but had become a matter of competition following the capture of the group's leader — Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — in February 2014. It got even worse after he escaped in July this year.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:55
The 17th Central Asian Media Conference, which took place last week in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, focussed on the impact of digitalisation on media freedom.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:53
Baku and Washington have highlighted the successful cooperation in the fields of energy, fight against the terrorism and regional security.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:50
Colonel John C. Hope is a decorated West Point graduate with a sterling 32-year service record. On Monday, he went public and accused the Pentagon of punishing him for speaking out against waste and inefficiency he saw in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:43
Training Ukraine's army may be more important than providing weapons to fight Russian-backed separatists, some U.S. officials say.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:39
U.S.-backed Syrian rebels launched an attack late last month on Islamic State militants near the town of Hawl in northern Syria. They regained control of roughly 100 square miles of territory, according to the U.S. Defense Department.