and curfews imposed across major , Kurd - majority towns and cities .
“ I flew to Juba , the new capital of South Sudan , to try to broker a deal , ” she wrote . “ It had taken years of patient diplomacy to end the civil war and midwife the birth of a new nation , and we could n’t let that achievement fall apart now . ” It was August 2012 , a little more than a year after South Sudan ’s inaugural Independence Day — the product , beyond any sort of American midwifery , of two brutal conflictsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith Sudan that raged from 1955 to 1972 and 1983 to 2005 , leaving millions dead and displaced . But it was also true that for more than 20 years , a bipartisan coalition in the United States had championed the southern rebels . And as the new nation broke away from Sudan , the U.S. poured in billions of dollars in aid , including hundreds of millions in military and security assistance .
Portland Public Schools ’ transportation director Teri Brady sent the directive in March , instructing the drivers to stick with pop , country and jazz … ‘ Colleen Ryan - Onken , a parent who starting circulating the memorandum … [ said it ] ‘ leaves out two of our major communities in our music choices . ’ ‘ When you outlaw a kind of music that is very indicative of the modern culture of one group of people you ’re basically saying that they ’re not welcome , ’ she said . ” HOT ON THE RIGHT “ Do n’t ask us for trigger warnings or safe spaces , the University of Chicago tells freshmen , ” by Susan Svrluga : “ University of Chicago students should not expect to get ‘ trigger warnings ’ before professors talk about sensitive topics , or ‘ safe spaces ’ where they can gather with others to avoid a speaker whom they find offensive , entering students were told this week . It is the first university to take such a strong , proactive stand … on an issue that has been divisive nationally . [ And ] … after a year of intense protests at campuses across the country , many involving raw emotions over conflictsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleabout racial tensions and sexual assault , the letter ’s direct language set off flares both on campus and far beyond with a debate about free speech , hate speech , student rights and students ’ demands . ” DAYBOOK : On the campaign trail : Clinton appears on " Morning Joe . "
Peter Cook , the Department of Defense spokesman , wrote in an email , “ The DoD has a strong partnership with the Somali National Army and AMISOM forces from Djibouti , Ethiopia , Kenya , Uganda and Burundi operating in Somalia . They have made steady progress pressuring Al Shabab . ” The escalation of the war can be seen in the bureaucratic language of the semiannual notifications that Mr. Obama sends to Congress about American conflictsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleoverseas . Photo The Somalia passage in the June 2015 notification is terse , saying American troops “ have worked to counter the terrorist threat posed by al - Qa’ida and associated elements of al - Shabaab . ”
" We are dealing with this issue , " the agencies quoted Pankov as saying in Russia 's parliament . Russia lowered its flag at the Lourdes signals intelligence base in Cuba and the deepwater Cam Rahn naval base in Vietnam in the early 2000s as part of a drawing down of Russia 's military presence around the world after the demise of the Soviet Union . But since then , Moscow 's foreign policy has become more assertive , leading to tensions with the United States and its allies over , among other issues , the conflictsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlein Ukraine and Syria , and the presence of NATO troops in eastern Europe . Pankov said the Defence Ministry was currently " rethinking " past decisions on closure of the bases , but declined to go into detail . Vietnam ’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment and Cuban officials were not available .
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Cotton ( R - Ark . ) had a hard time coming up with a reason why he supports presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when pressed by Chuck Todd on " Meet the Press " on Sunday morning . Cotton , a leading proponent of an aggressive neoconservative foreign policy , was asked by Todd whether he is closer in foreign policy terms to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton than Trump , who , while promoting a bombastic and confrontational foreign policy for the United States , has also called for the country to pull back from some international conflictsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleand commitments . Cotton had a hard time mustering up an answer . “ Well , I can assure you that I 'm not very close to Hillary Clinton , ” Cotton said .
Even as he called for a massive increase in the military budget , Trump suggested he would more judicious in using force -- upending the traditional partisan battles lines on national security . “ Unlike my opponent , my foreign policy will emphasize diplomacy , not destruction . Hillary Clinton ’s legacy in Iraq , Libya , and Syria has produced only turmoil and suffering , ” he said in Pennsylvania , skipping over his own one - time support for intervention in some of those conflictsconflict.attack.na. “ Sometimes it has seemed like there was n’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton did n’t want to invade , intervene or topple . She is trigger - happy and unstable when it comes to war , ” he said .
The Obama administration will seek to accept 110,000 refugees from around the world in fiscal 2017 , officials announced Wednesday . Secretary of State John F. Kerry briefed lawmakers Tuesday on the new goal , which is an increase from 85,000 in fiscal 2016 and 70,000 in the previous three years . It represents a 57 percent increase in refugee arrivals since 2015 , as ongoing conflictsconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlein Syria , Iraq and elsewhere have spurred an exodus of migrants seeking asylum in Europe , Canada and other regions . " That does represent a substantial increase in our commitment to addressing the refugee problem around the world , " White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday , adding the U.S. is the world 's largest humanitarian donor when it comes to refugees . " But I think what we need to see around the world is a greater commitment to not just shunting this burden off to a handful of countries . "