Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week: United States Policy: Yemen’s Parliament voted Sunday to prohibit U.S. drone activity in the country after a strike on Thursday mistakenly killed around 14 people traveling to a wedding, according […]

Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week: Top Stories from Central Asia and the South Caucasus: United States Deputy Assistance Secretary of Defense, Evelyn Farkas, and other U.S. defense officials from European Command, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and the Kansas […]

Annually, the United States’ Central Command (CENTCOM) organizes several bilateral and multilateral exercises within its area of responsibility, which extends from Egypt to Central Asia (excludes Israel). These exercises range from simulated peacekeeping operations to countermine drills at sea. Below is a roundup of a number of these exercises carried out in 2013. This list […]

A roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week: Top Stories from Central Asia and the South Caucasus: The fourth United States-Uzbekistan Annual Bilateral Consultations took place at the State Department this week, with Uzbekistan’s foreign minister and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in […]

Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week: United States Policy: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel spent six days this week in the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia, assuring allies of the United States’ commitment to the region. […]

Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week: United States Policy: In a call with Egyptian Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel expressed concern over the recently passed protest law […]

A roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week: Top Stories from Central Asia and the South Caucasus: Georgian officials held meetings with senior United States and NATO officials on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers meeting this week. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh […]

On December 3rd and 4th, NATO held an alliance-wide foreign ministers meeting, which addressed the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan and included a discussion with representatives from non-NATO ISAF participants. NATO assumed leadership of the ISAF operation in 2003, and while the majority of ISAF soldiers come from NATO member states, non-NATO […]

On Thursday November 21, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations convened a hearing titled, “Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa.” Despite its title, the hearing focused on the North African states of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco, and U.S. policy towards these nations. The hearing’s first panel convened three government officials from the Department […]

This post extracts key trends and information from the Middle East and North Africa portion of the 2012 Foreign Military Training Report, which details United States military and police training activities around the world. The top recipients of U.S. training in 2012 – Lebanon and the Gulf States: (To see the numbers underlying these graphics, […]