According to Fed Biz Opps the U.S. Army has posted a solicitation for Security Assistance Mentors and Advisors (SAMA) in Iraq. President Obama previously ordered up to 300 military advisers to Iraq in mid-June to assist Iraqi security forces and assess intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets in the region about 500 or so who are now on […]
President Obama has ordered some 500 U.S. troops back to Iraq both to shore up security in Baghdad as ISIS fighters threaten the city and up to the north to assist Kurdish forces and help rescue some 30,000 Yazidis trapped on Mt. Sinjar. And as the troops head back, non-boot-wearing federal contractors, performing similar advisory […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of innocent children, women, and men displaced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) assault on Sinjar and surrounding areas of northern Iraq. USAID is deploying humanitarian response experts […]
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the May 20-21, 2012, NATO summit in Chicago expressed agreement to phase out the PRTs in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. The July 2014 CRS report also indicates that as of December 1, 2013, 12 PRTs have been transferred to Afghan control, and that the remaining 16 are to […]
The United States government has delivered almost three quarters of a million weapons to Afghanistan’s army and police since 2004 but can’t track where those arms went, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR. “U.S. and Coalition–provided weapons are at risk of theft, loss, or misuse,” […]