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Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:29
The U.S. Defense Department cautions against using 'body counts' as a metric of success in its campaign against the Islamic State. But it continues to advertise them anyway.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:26
Bahrain and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are in negotiations to buy the Israeli-developed Iron Dome anti-missile system to defend against "a growing arsenal of Iranian missiles".
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:22
The Army is doing big business abroad, raking in $20 billion in foreign military sales in fiscal 2015, according to the commander of Army Materiel Command.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:20
A top American lawmaker says the Obama administration’s military assistance to Riyadh may violate U.S. law.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:17
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, warned that a new bill amending the law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Kazakhstan may compromise the independence of associations and also challenge their existence.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:14
The United States has played a “key role” in the Colombian peace process, admitted Iván Márquez, the head negotiator for the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in the peace talks hosted in Havana, Cuba.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:10
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:06
In the first nine months of 2015 almost 5,000 have been murdered in El Salvador in a vicious fight for territory between two gangs with a combined membership of 72,000.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:03
The leaders of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have signed 17 agreements, including a statement on combating international terrorism and an agreement on military cooperation through 2020.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:01
The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work thanked Georgia’s Defense Minister Tinatin Khidasheli for the Georgian contingent’s contribution to global security, Sputnik reported Oct. 16 citing Georgian Defense Ministry Oct. 16.