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Monday, October 19, 2015 - 07:11
Russia and its allies will have to step up their military activity in the border regions near Afghanistan to prevent militants fanning out from the conflict there to Central Asia and possibly to Syria, President Vladimir V. Putin and senior Russian officials said on Friday, Russian news agencies reported.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 07:06
China is giving new military aid to Kazakhstan and the two countries are planning joint special forces training, as Beijing slowly but steadily increases its military presence in Central Asia.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:58
“The ‘Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry staff and journalists’ turned out to be diplomats from the US Embassy in Tashkent, who had specially gone to the remote region to find some kind of problems which it would be possible to trumpet to the entire word as ‘the grossest cases of violations of human rights and restrictions on freedoms,’” the website wrote.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:53
The U.S. government is facing increasing resistance to engagement in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan even at the level of development programs. This is stated in the report prepared for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by Noah Tucker, Management Systems International, published by the regional analytical network in Central Asia.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:45
One key indicator of the health of the US aerospace and defense sector, foreign military sales, rose to a record high of $46.6 billion for fiscal 2015, but US officials are warning of a dip in sales next year.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:33
Nearly a decade has passed since Evo Morales took office as Bolivia’s first indigenous president. During his re-election campaign in 2014, he promised not to seek another term after this one. But the thin Andean air may be distorting lawmakers’ memories. During an all-night session on September 26th, Mr Morales’s legislative super-majority passed a reform that would allow him to run for another five-year term, which would expire in 2025.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:25
A military airstrike in northwest Syria has killed the leader of a shadowy Qaeda cell that American officials say has been plotting attacks against the United States and Europe, the Pentagon announced on Sunday.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:24
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, was in Sweden on Monday to discuss her country's purchase of 36 Jas Gripen fighter jets for a price tag which has risen to 39 billion kronor ($4.7 billion).
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:19
The refugee crisis isn’t over. I’m not talking about the tens of thousands pouring into Europe over the last several months, but about the tens of thousands who are still trying to get to the United States from Central America.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:18
A battalion of Sudanese troops arrived in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Saturday, military officials said, bolstering Saudi-led Arab forces trying to keep out the Iran-backed Houthis and curb the growing presence of Islamist militants.