Security
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 05:33
Local Afghan police are poorly supplied and often asked to perform duties outside their mission, undercutting the effectiveness of the units created in 2010 to help bring security to rural people, U.S. investigators reported on Monday.
Monday, October 26, 2015 - 07:05
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is today hosting the third South Caucasus Security Forum 2015 - the biggest security conference in the South Caucasus.
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 13:00
Demanding answers to structural and stability challenges facing their nation, Argentines will take to the polls on October 25 to elect a new president. Sunday will mark the end to 12 years of kirchnerismo, the peronist political movement born under presidential couple Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the late Néstor Kirchner, once lauded a leftist success for its sustained economic growth and robust spending on social programs.
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 06:31
President Barack Obama held a 90-minute meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday, focusing primarily on regional security concerns, with both leaders calling for stronger cooperation between their two countries.
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 06:25
Nine high-ranking employees of Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security (MNS) were dismissed, Trend has learned, and more are expected.
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 06:42
The delegation of Turkmenistan headed by Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov paid a working visit to Washington on October 14-16, 2015, reports the Foreign Ministry.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 07:15
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev chaired a meeting of the Heads of State Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Burabai, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 16, which focused intensively on security challenges such as terrorism.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 07:11
Russia and its allies will have to step up their military activity in the border regions near Afghanistan to prevent militants fanning out from the conflict there to Central Asia and possibly to Syria, President Vladimir V. Putin and senior Russian officials said on Friday, Russian news agencies reported.
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 07:01
The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work thanked Georgia’s Defense Minister Tinatin Khidasheli for the Georgian contingent’s contribution to global security, Sputnik reported Oct. 16 citing Georgian Defense Ministry Oct. 16.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 07:25
Russia, alarmed by increased activity by Islamist insurgents near its borders with Central Asia, may act to re-establish its control over Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, a senior Russian defense official said on Thursday.