English
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:55
"This was an opportunity to underscore that the United States has and will continue to support Uzbekistan, and a leadership that Uzbekistan has provided in the region, because a strong, independent, and vibrant Uzbekistan will not only strengthen [the] security and prosperity of the Uzbek people, it will also enhance the stability and the security of the broader Central Asian region, and the security and prosperity of the American people."
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:44
"Over the course of the last two days, I have met with senior officials from your government, members of civil society, members of your parliament, and I have had the opportunity to assure them that the U.S. partnership and commitment to Uzbekistan is an enduring one. And we continue to support an active role for Uzbekistan in this region and beyond."
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:23
"And we have enjoyed a growing security partnership, economic partnership, on any number of issues. We are working on the challenge of ISIL, of counterterrorism. We’re very grateful for Kazakhstan’s engagement with us on a number of issues – nonproliferation, issues of Afghanistan, trade, development."
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 07:22
Not Much attention was paid in Washington to the formal end Monday of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan. The 13-year-old war is something most Americans, led by their president, are eager to put behind them. That’s unfortunate, because far from fading away, the fighting in Afghanistan is intensifying — and so is the threat it poses to everything that the U.S.-led coalition accomplished.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 07:20
The United States on Wednesday released the final three detainees from the Parwan Detention Center in Afghanistan, ending the U.S. operation of any prisons in the country after more than a decade of war, the Pentagon said.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 07:14
The watchdog agency for the $104 billion that the U.S. has pledged for the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan says rampant corruption could derail rebuilding the nation after 13 years of war.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:57
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. has offered to help Mexico figure out what happened to 43 college students who have been missing since September, but he stopped short of saying that aid to the U.S. ally and neighbor should be reconsidered on the basis of the country's human rights record.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:55
The defense appropriations bill agreed to by lawmakers this week calls for US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system to double, bringing Washington’s investment in the program to over $1.2 billion since 2011.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:53
With their hands and feet bound, the two dead men who were recently found by police officers in the trunk of a Peugeot compact car seemed at first like many other victims on the streets of Manaus, the Amazon’s largest city.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:48
The head of the Brazilian federal government's anti-corruption agency announced his resignation on Monday, amid an ongoing corruption scandal at Brazil's largest company, state-run oil giant Petrobras.