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Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:42
Gloria was 10 years old when armed rebels burst into her home at night, forced her father to his knees and shot him twice in the back of the head as the family watched. The guerrillas never said why. When she was 14, the men returned. Four of them raped her.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:40
Angola is to sign an agreement with Brazil on 11 November for the delivery of seven 500-tonne patrol ships, to be built to meet the specifications of the Angolan Navy.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:39
Brazil’s army is deploying troops this month to the far reaches of the Amazon in a military exercise simulating a foreign invasion of the rain forest, focusing attention on sensitivity over sovereignty in a region rising in importance as a strategic pillar of Latin America’s largest economy.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:36
With an amphibious operation simulating the capture of a beach head on a hostile coast, the Brazilian Navy concluded Operation Formosa. The event, which concluded a year of training for the country’s Marines, brought together 1,900 troops in the state of Goiás.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:36
The American presence at Al-Dhafra, which the Pentagon has not publicly acknowledged, is a vital part of the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State militants: The base’s twin runways have launched more strike aircraft — including the Air Force’s most-sophisticated warplane, the F-22 Raptor — than any other military facility in the region.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:28
'This Week' Transcript: Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Elect Cory Gardner
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:19
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Mughdeed sits in a pickup truck equipped with an anti-aircraft weapon as he and his men wind through steep roads to their base in the rocky Zartik Mountains.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:17
The mass killings of Sunni tribesmen battling the Islamic State have added urgency to Iraqi government efforts to support pockets of resistance against the insurgents. But distrust, a lack of financing and corruption threaten to slow the process, tribesmen and officials say.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 06:13
President Barack Obama’s authorization of an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State more than doubles the U.S. troop presence there and will place some of those new forces in Iraq’s most restive provinces.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 05:51
Last week, opponents of Blaise Compaore, the long-serving de facto dictator of Burkina Faso, launched a series of demonstrations that have quickly led to a new government headed by Lt. Col. Isaac Zida. While this was a somewhat softer military coup than old-fashioned ones where officers marched civilian leaders out and shot them, it was a coup nonetheless. Washington is now scrambling to make sense of it.