Indonesia, Philippines, and Malaysia Agree to Anti-Piracy Patrols
Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines agreed on Thursday May 5, 2016 to conduct coordinated maritime patrols after several ship hijackings...
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U.S. Navy Seal Killed In Iraq While Advising Peshmerga Forces
At 9:30 AM on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, a United States (US) serviceman, identified as a U.S. Navy Seal, was...
U.S. and Philippine Military Exercise Angers China
The United States (US), Australia, and the Philippines have gathered to conduct annual military exercises as a show of force...
Singapore Revises Counter Terrorism Plan in Wake of Impending Threat
Last Friday Singapore Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugum announced new changes that would harden the country's counter terrorism law. His...
Australian Navy Prevents Cache of Weapons from Reaching Somalia
The Australian Navy seized a fishing vessel carrying 2,000 arms and ammunition off the coast of Somalia. The fishing vessel...
American and Iraqi’s Special Forces Capture IS Senior Chemical Weapons Specialist
Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, a top chemical weapons specialist for the Islamic State (IS) who was captured by U.S. Special Forces...
Algerian Nuclear Deal Shows Russia Renewed Influence in Africa
To escape a floundering economy, repeated sanctions, and currency crisis Russia has its eyes set on Africa's energy sector. Diplomats...
Australia: The Funding Capital for the Islamic State in Southeast Asia
In the aftermath, of the Jakarta, Indonesia terrorist attacks, investigators began to investigate a suspicious money trail that lead all...
How Shi’ite Militias Are Turning Iraq into Kidnapping Hunting Grounds
On January 16, armed Shi'ite militia kidnapped three American contractors from an apartment in Baghdad's southeastern Dora district. The group's...
The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America
The recent Gaza crisis, during which Israel responded with a limited military operation to stop Hamas missile attacks against Israeli...
The consequences of Colombia’s negotiations with FARC
Early in October, peace negotiations will take place between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)...
The Importance of the War of Ideas
As anti-American feelings are being cultivated in large parts of Latin America, not much attention is being paid to the...
The Assange Case and Ecuador: Correa Positions Himself as Chavez’s International Successor
Ecuador’s decision to grant political asylum to the computer hacker, Julian Assange, is very revealing in relation to the character...