by Aishwarya Airy | Nov 5, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON—The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the third quarter of this year hit a record high of 4,313 – a 42% increase from the same period last year, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction office says. Experts suggested the...
by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 29, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON- The Trump administration ‘s $6.6 billion foreign aid request for the Middle East and North Africa does nothing to punish Egypt for its humanitarian violations, like the capture of political activist Esraa Abdel Fattah, a House Democrat who served in the...
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by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 24, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — National security experts said Thursday that the U.S. military needs to provide education, not just equipment, to improve U.S.-Arab defense relations. The United States has been aiding Arab nations militarily for decades and has spent large sums of...
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by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 24, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs to provide education, especially English-language proficiency, to foreign militaries, not just weapons and equipment, a national security expert said Thursday. “In order to be interoperable, English language proficiency is priority one, two...
by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s decisions to withdraw from Syria and sanction Turkey as it invades northeastern Syria, abandon and betray both Turkey and the Kurds in Syria, a Middle East expert at the conservative Hudson Institute said Tuesday. Blaize Misztal...
