Counterterrorism
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 12:57
If there's one thing we should have learned over the past 13 years of war, it's that war is good business for those in the business of war. Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon's contractors increase, so does the cost to taxpayers in billions in waste, fraud, and abuse. As America embarks on yet another war in the Middle East, Congress needs to act now to stop this unjustified bonanza for the Pentagon's contractors.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 07:49
Radicalised political Islam, the reignited war in Iraq, and Syria’s prolonged and devastating civil war are fostering a level of terrorism that the world has never before witnessed. The rise of foreign terrorist fighters is a problem so acute that the UN Security Council has held an open debate on the issue and adopted a resolution aimed specifically at this new type of combatants. Some estimates count more than 15,000 foreign fighters from more than 80 nations fighting in Syria in recent years, including, according to some reports, a number of Kazakhstan citizens.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 07:31
AS part of measures to tackle terror and the current insurgency in the north eastern part of the country, the Federal Government’s plan of setting up an elite Special Brigade Force (SFB) is laudable. The elite force, according to the president, will be charged with stemming “challenges of new threats in the environment and thereby aligning our armed forces greater citizen protection and national defence.” This is especially commendable as a scheme against future threats internally and externally to Nigeria’s sovereignty by any militant group.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 06:48
Egypt has offered to train pro-government forces battling rival armed groups in Libya, stepping up efforts to eradicate what it says is a threat to its own stability from the anarchy engulfing its neighbor.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 06:38
With the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as his backdrop, President Barack Obama unveiled a new $5 billion fund to fight terrorism in May. Although the announcement was welcomed at the Pentagon and State Department, there were immediate questions about what exactly the money was for. Four months later, those questions remain largely unanswered.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 06:28
China is not signing up for the U.S.-led fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. But the Middle Kingdom has found a lot to cheer for in President Barack Obama's growing push to rally international support for a crackdown on the Islamic extremists flocking to Syria and Iraq to expand the group's self-proclaimed caliphate there.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 06:01
China is for the first time sending a submarine to the coast of East Africa to take part in anti-piracy patrols and escort tasks there.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 12:33
The mandate the Turkish government is seeking from the Parliament to authorize the army to send troops into Iraq and Syria to deal with growing threat of extremist jihadists does also include opening its bases to foreign troops, a senior government official has said, signaling about potential Turkish contribution to the international military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 07:18
The CIS Security Council secretaries held meeting in Moscow, where they discussed the efforts to counter international terrorism and religious extremism, radicalization of Islam and its possible consequences for the CIS states, destructive activity of "Al-Qaeda" and the terrorist group "The Islamic state of Iraq and Sham" (ISIS), as well as issues of cooperation in the sphere of international information security.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 07:15
Abu Omar served with the U.S.-trained Georgian army, spent time in jail, and emerged a jihadi. Now at the top of the ISIS leadership, he wants to take the war to Russia.