by Chiara Vercellone | Oct 31, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Three days after President Donald Trump announced ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death, the nation’s top security officials told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that ISIS is still a threat despite Trump’s statements that ISIS is...
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...
by Bing Xiao | Oct 29, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON –China’s military deployment in the South China Sea and near the Straits of Taiwan is Beijing’s latest tactic to assert power over Taiwan, a group of international experts said Tuesday. June Teufer Dreyer, a political science professor at University of...
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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 Alec Bose | Oct 24, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz demanded Thursday that Boko Haram release the last of 110 girls it captured a year ago, saying the kidnapping points to a larger problem of persecutions of Christians in many countries. Leah Sharibu16, was among 110 girls...
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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...
