Topic: United Nations
The U.N. peacekeeping chief says it's time for the international community to take "concrete steps" to allow Afghans to take charge of their future — and to ensure that "Afghanization" becomes more than a slogan. Alain Le Roy told the Security Council on Thursday that the ...
A retired US general on Thursday said Dutch UN troops defending Srebrenica in the Bosnian war failed to prevent the 1995 genocide partly because their ranks included openly gay soldiers. John Sheehan, a former NATO commander and senior Marine officer, made the remarks at a senate hearing where he argued against plans by President Barack Obama to end a ban ...
The deal looked simple enough: U.S. military equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister's salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard. But the salesmen were actually FBI agents. And the operation resulted in what U.S. authorities in January called their biggest foreign ...
