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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 06:35
Soldiers from Chad and Niger launched the largest international push to defeat Nigeria's Islamic extremists whose war has spilled over into neighboring countries, officials and witnesses said Monday. Chad's president has warned that the leader of Boko Haram must surrender or be killed.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 06:33
Pakistan on Monday test-fired a ballistic missile that appears capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to every part of India, another escalation in Islamabad’s effort to keep pace with its neighboring rival’s formidable military advancements.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 06:31
A new ranking of Africa’s military capabilities puts Egypt’s forces as the most formidable in among 30 African countries ranked. The Global Fire Power Index makes use of over 50 factors to determine each nation’s Power Index score; it allows small, technologically advanced countries to compete with larger, less-developed ones.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 10:22
Astana will attempt to mitigate some of the potential domestic costs by moving up the country’s presidential election, scheduled for late 2016, to this April. But while that may help squelch potential momentum for an already meager opposition, it will do little to stay the fallout for the country’s fiscal plummet.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 08:22
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, which rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, according to a video posted online.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 07:40
Colombian government and Marxist oriented guerrillas jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives from the battlefield in a sign of progress in their two-year-old peace talks being held in Cuba.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 07:20
Obama administration should fully implement the often-ignored Leahy Law, which prohibits military assistance to any foreign unit implicated in gross human rights violations. The Leahy Law offers the United States a powerful tool to help curb human rights violations by foreign forces bankrolled by U.S. taxpayers.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 07:20
Tthe United States and its allies suddenly feel an urgent impulse to do something about Libya — yet none among them seems capable of coming up with a coherent strategy. Is the international community really prepared to allow the emergence of a series of jihadist statelets right off the southern coast of Europe?
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 07:15
The United States continues to shoulder the bulk of the military burden among members of the coalition assembled against the group, which surged out of Syria last year to capture a third of Iraq.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 07:09
Iraqi cultural officials called for more military help from the U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State to halt the group’s destruction of ancient monuments—a new source of anger, shock and shame for a nation reeling from the loss of life and land.