Category: Foreign Policy

With French and US missions in African struggling to contain a rising insurgency, top generals envision the future of operations in the area.

“We are compelled to withdraw our troops from the streets, have half our army on guard and close our state border with the West,” Lukashenko said.

During his first term, President Trump has retooled alliances and conflicts of the Middle East, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

Spokesman Colonel Wu Qian called the Department of Defense’s report a “wanton distortion” of China’s intentions.

As U.S. and Afghan officials open peace talks with Taliban representatives in Qatar, Taliban fighters carried out attacks in 18 provinces across Afghanistan.

“We should use the mechanisms of the Compact to establish a regular US military presence in Palau,” President Remengesau said.

The European Union has suspended its two training missions in Mali after last week’s military takeover that removed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power. E.U. defense ministers met in Berlin on Wednesday and discussed the situation in Mali. It was decided that E.U. military training will continue in neighboring Niger and Burkina Faso, officials said. […]

The United States has suspended all cooperation with Mali’s military following the overthrow of the Malian president by army officers, the U.S. envoy to West Africa’s Sahel region said on Friday. This comes despite thousands of Malians celebrating the overthrow in the streets of the capital of Bamako. U.S. envoy J. Peter Pham told the […]

The United States requested the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to reinstate the economic sanctions against Iran. Washington’s bid was defeated. Its only support came from the Dominican Republic. China and Russia rejected the motion and all 11 other members of the Security Council abstained.  The economic sanctions have crippled the Iranian economy. Secretary of […]

The military leaders of Mali have conducted a coup, ousting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power. The military had had enough: Government corruption, economic mismanagement, the ongoing coronavirus crisis, and the Islamic jihadists’ insurgency have paralyzed and decimated the country’s outlying areas. The military’s frustration was compounded by the poor bad and bad conditions it […]

The U.S. Department of Defense announced last Thursday that the Pentagon’s top weapons supplier, Lockheed Martin Corp, has been awarded a $62 billion, 10-year contract for the production of F-16s for Foreign Military Sale (FMS). The initial delivery order is for 90 aircraft. The 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) includes a $4.94 billion order for 90 fighters, […]

Belarus is reeling from protests. Close to 200,000 people took to the streets of Minsk on Sunday to call for the ousting of President Alexander Lukashenko. Protesters say the recent presidential election of Sunday 9, which saw Lukashenko — who has been in power since 1994 — win with a reported 80 percent of the […]