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Monday, June 22, 2015 - 07:09
The US State Department this month has approved two possible foreign military sales (FMS) to Lebanon, but if the sale of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft is approved, US military aid will not pay for them.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:49
Two years ago, the Special Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons was created. It may search, but it doesn’t find. In that period, only 112 of the nearly 27,000 missing persons have been located.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:47
El Salvador has just experienced one of its most violent months since the end of the civil war in 1992, with 635 homicides reported in May for the country of just over 6 million people. June is on track to break that mark, with the latest bloodshed coming Sunday when suspected gang members killed two soldiers guarding a bus terminal in the capital.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:44
President Obama expects “deeper cooperation” with Turkey as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reportedly angered by the victory June 15 of Syrian Kurdish and rebel fighters over Islamic State (IS) forces in Tell Abyad, a Syrian town close to the Turkish border.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:41
The ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, could end more than 50 years of internal armed conflict. But they have not gone without a hitch. Despite some progress, tensions have been escalating in the last several months, threatening to bring negotiations to a halt.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:33
Bahrain released at dawn on Saturday a Sunni opposition leader who was jailed more than four years for involvement in Shiite-led anti-government protests, his party announced.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:30
The AU field training exercise Amani Africa II set to take place in the Northern Cape is shaping up as the single largest military exercise yet to be held in democratic South Africa.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:30
Both countries have claimed an area in the Gulf of Venezuela near the Guajira Peninsula since they gained independence from Spain in the 19th century. The main factor that gives strategic importance to these waters is the fact that it connects the Caribbean Sea and Lake Maracaibo, an important source of crude petroleum for Venezuela.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:25
Money and weapons alone won't be enough to repair the mistrust between Baghdad and the Sunni tribes it now needs to battle the Islamic State group, which holds about a third of the country and neighboring Syria in its self-declared "caliphate." After Iraqi forces abandoned Ramadi and then turned to Shiite militias for help, both sides remain suspicious of each other, threatening any effort to work together.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:25
British troops are to test shoulder mounted anti-aircraft missiles as part of a special exercise to show that the Falklands can defend itself against air attack.