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Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 07:17
An inquiry has been launched after two MBDA Brimstone missiles 'fell' from a Royal Air Force (RAF) Panavia Tornado GR4 fighter as it landed at Akrotiri in Cyprus on 15 July, as it returned from anti-Islamic State operations over Iraq.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 07:12
An ex-senator, a former CIA officer, and an Iraqi mogul lobby Congress for a private army, led by Saddam’s officers, to take on the terrorists that have trampled America’s proxies.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 07:05
Ray Odierno, the outgoing Army chief of staff, expressed frustration at the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in a Fox News interview published Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 07:01
Authorities seized control of an education agency that was a bastion of resistance to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s education sector overhaul, firing its 4,000 employees and deploying federal police to secure the agency’s offices.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:56
Members of Colombia’s military and rebel group FARC have resumed a landmine removal pilot project in the north of Colombia that was suspended last week when a soldier died after accidentally detonating a mine.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:55
A ship full of aid chartered by the World Food Program, the United Nations’ antihunger agency, berthed Tuesday in Yemen’s southern port of Aden, the agency reported.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:53
Turkey briefly blocked access to Twitter on Wednesday to prevent images of Monday's deadly bombing from being broadcast and to stop Twitter users from calling for protests against the government, which they blamed for not doing enough to prevent the attack, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:40
At 16 homicides per 100,000 population in 2014, Mexico’s homicide rate continued its downward trend from historic highs in 2011. But it still has a long way to go to get back to the single digit rates that prevailed before the drug war offensive in December of 2006.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:35
With President Obama travelling to Kenya and Ethiopia this week, the Africa Center’s Dr. Ben Nickels, Chair of Transnational Threats and Counterterrorism, reviews some of the key issues that merit watching.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:34
In the face of widespread hopes of a last-minute change of heart, Kyrgyzstan’s government has torn up a foundational treaty in the Central Asian nation’s ties with the United States.