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Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:46
Colombia's military forces will increase military attacks on the ELN, the country's second largest rebel group, after President Juan Manuel Santos order a month-long suspension of attacks on the FARC.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:42
Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give its offensive against Boko Haram a shot in the arm before a March 28 election, according to regional security, defense and diplomatic sources.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:33
After eight months of talks, the Malian government and Tuareg rebels are close to a peace deal. Now terror attacks are undermining hopes of an end to violence.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:29
The White House on Monday announced the imposition of new sanctions on various Venezuelan officials, pronouncing itself “deeply concerned by the Venezuelan government’s efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents”: deeply concerned. President Obama also, reportedly with a straight face, officially declared that Venezuela poses “an extraordinary threat to the national security” of the U.S. — a declaration necessary to legally justify the sanctions.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:22
Days after word leaked that the Afghan Taliban had signaled willingness to enter talks to end Afghanistan’s long war, senior representatives of the militant group visited Islamabad for secret discussions on the next step forward.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:17
For observers on the ground, the fight against Boko Haram is greatly compromised by Nigeria’s military lack of cooperation, while the insurgency is much more impacting its territory. Without Nigeria’s leadership, the fight is already lost and the Chad, Niger and Cameroon will never be able to mobilize enough troops for an effective campaign in a tough terrain.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:02
Turkmen Service, known locally as Azatlyk, has been reporting for many months about the deteriorating situation in northern Afghanistan, just across the border from Turkmenistan.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 06:54
France will boost its military presence in the troubled Sahel region of Africa where jihadist groups operate to support the fight against Boko Haram, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Wednesday.France already has some 3,000 troops in the region but Paris has insisted it will limit itself to "indirect support" of the widening African effort to combat the growing Boko Haram insurgency.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 06:53
During the past year, Kyrgyz security forces have unmasked underground radical organizations, broken up transport routes for militant recruits trying to join the wars in the Middle East, and arrested suspected terrorists. But they are not complacent.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 06:48
The United States supports the creation of a West African force of up to 10,000 troops to fight Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Amanda J. Dory said on a visit to Cameroon that Washington, one of five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council, would back a U.N. resolution.