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Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 07:11
A former Azerbaijani deputy defense minister, Mehman Salimov, has been arrested on corruption charges.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 07:09
The Georgian foreign ministry has said Russia took a "step toward the de-facto annexation" of Georgia's breakaway territory after Moscow has signed a deal with Abkhazia, giving greater military control over the Black Sea region.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 07:06
Russia under Putin has repeatedly stated that two former Soviet republics joining NATO would cross a “red line” – Ukraine and Georgia. Amid deteriorating Western-Russian relations over Ukraine, on Nov. 17 Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili visited NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:57
Yemeni security forces freed seven Yemeni hostages and one foreigner in a special operation in which seven Al-Qaeda kidnappers were also killed, the country's supreme security committee said, according to Reuters news agency.
A U.S. soldier was among eight hostages freed by the Yemeni forces, military officials said according to Agence France Presse.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:55
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview published Sunday that he would be prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state to help stabilize it.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:53
Kidnapping appears to be increasing in Argentina amidst a crime wave that could be a side effect of the country's growing domestic drug market and role as a drug transit nation.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:43
A flurry of high-level military visits between Washington and Tbilisi appears to be setting the stage for wider-scale exports of weaponry from the U.S. to Georgia.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:43
A tragic milestone went virtually unreported in the English-speaking press last week, as Colombia's Victims Unit released its report indicating that the number of victims of Colombia's civil war has now surpassed 7 million.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:38
Russia tightened its control Monday over Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia with a new treaty envisaging closer military and economic ties with the lush sliver of land along the Black Sea. The move drew outrage and cries of "annexation" in Georgia and sent a chill through those in Abkhazia who fear that wealthy Russians will snap up their precious coastline.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:36
It's been two months since Congress authorized a train-and-equip mission to help Syrian rebels fight ISIS—but the mission is unlikely to happen until spring of next year.
In conjunction with air strikes, the American mission to train and equip the Syrian moderate opposition is a central part of the Obama administration's strategy to counter ISIS. Yet this strategy and its execution are deeply flawed, say Congressional lawmakers focused on national security issues—which raises questions about whether the planned training of some 5,000 fighters will ever happen.