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Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 07:27
The South Caucasus country purchases military equipment mostly from Turkey, Israel, Russia and the U.S. etc. It buys tanks from Russia as part of the agreement packages signed in 2011 and 2012. Six battalions of 94 tanks should be partially delivered to Azerbaijan, according to the agreement.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 07:13
NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai will pay a visit to Azerbaijan.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 07:08
A U.S. congressman has urged Azerbaijan to release jailed journalist Khadija Ismayilova and criticized its crackdown on RFE/RL's Baku bureau.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 07:07
France's president says the country will withdraw 1,200 troops from the Central African Republic by autumn now that U.N. peacekeepers are deployed.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 07:05
Boko Haram galvanized activists all over the world last year when it kidnapped hundreds of school girls in Nigeria and threatened to sell them into slavery, but hardly a peep has been uttered since the Al Qaeda-linked army massacred as many as 2,000 people near the Chad border last week.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 07:00
At the same time the world focuses on the terror attacks in France, the growing territory and lethality of Boko Haram, the Nigerian terror network which for a short time last year commanded global attention, is fueling calls in Washington for a new U.S. strategy.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 06:51
A U.S. general met with moderate Syrian rebels and civilian leaders this week, the first high-level meetings between the Pentagon and opposition forces.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 06:41
More than three months of U.S. airstrikes in Syria have failed to prevent Islamic State militants from expanding their control in that country, according to U.S. and independent assessments.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 06:36
Iraq has told President Barack Obama's envoy that the U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State needs to do more to help Iraq defeat the jihadists controlling large areas of the north and west of the country.
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 06:31
The Iraqi police and special forces officers practice drills next to a cluster of tents that constitute their base. They have a grand aim: to drive Islamic State fighters out of one of their strongholds, the city of Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh.