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Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 07:01
Over a month after three U.S. citizens were kidnapped and killed in Tamaulipas, investigations continue to determine what role local security officials played in the incident. On October 13, three siblings from Texas—Érica Alvarado Rivera (26), Alex (22), and José Ángel (21)—were kidnapped in the Mexican border city of Matamoros,
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 07:00
NATO's three-level (strategic, operational and tactical) Command Post Exercise/Computer Assisted Exercise (CPX/CAX) TRIDENT JUNCTURE 14 (TRJE 14) concluded today following nine days of intense training with Joint Force Command Naples (JFC Naples) and its subordinate Component Commands.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:59
Mexican drug cartels are reportedly arming gangs in Costa Rica with high-caliber weaponry, perhaps an indication that the Mexican criminals are shifting operations from countries under intense security pressure to those with weaker drug interdiction and law enforcement capabilities.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:58
Nongovernmental organizations in Tajikistan are concerned over new legislation that restricts their access to foreign grants. Participants at an international conference in Dushanbe said on November 18 that according to legal amendments recently adopted by aparliament, NGOs in the Central Asian nation will only be able to receive grants from foreign entities if they have apprival from the government.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:47
Egypt’s military said on Monday that it intended to double the size of a secured buffer zone in a town bordering the Gaza Strip after discovering smuggling tunnels across the frontier that were longer than expected, according to state news media.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:44
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met Georgia’s PM Irakli Garibashvili in Brussels on November 17 and discussed implementation of the “substantive package” of cooperation, which NATO offered to Georgia at its summit in Wales in September.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:42
A top Saudi Arabian official who begins a visit to the United States on Tuesday will seek to strengthen support for the kingdom’s powerful National Guard forces, official media said.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:40
The United States will train fighters from the Syrian moderate opposition in Turkey, the Department of Defense said Monday. According to a report this weekend in the Istanbul-based Hurriyet Daily News, military officials from both countries agreed that the U.S. would begin training and equipping 2,000 Free Syrian Army fighters at a training center in central Turkey in late December.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:18
One of northern Nigeria's most influential Muslim leaders has called on people to defend themselves against attacks by the Boko Haram militant Islamist group.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:12
A group of youths with machetes and knives killed three people on Kenya's coast after police raided two mosques that officials said were used to recruit Islamist militants, police said on Tuesday.