Year: 2019
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Sep- 2019 -18 SeptemberEurope
Germany extends Saudi arms sales embargo by 6 months
Germany has extended by six months a weapons export freeze against Saudi Arabia imposed a year ago over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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18 SeptemberAfrica
US AFRICOM commander Townsend meets G5 Sahel leaders in inaugural trip
US AFRICOM chief General Townsend made his first trip to the Sahel, meeting with the heads of the G5 Sahel joint force tasked with fighting insurgents
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17 SeptemberMiddle East
Syrian tribes call for Coalition help after Rukban aid convoy met with ‘aggression’
Tribal representatives in Syria's Rukban camp asked the US-led Coalition to take control after the UN and SARC were forced to cut short an aid mission
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17 SeptemberAsia Pacific
Dozens killed in twin Taliban attacks ahead of Afghanistan presidential election
People were killed in explosions in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and at an election rally in Parwan province after US and Taliban talks failed
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17 SeptemberAfrica
Central African Republic: Birao death toll rises to 38 after renewed militia fighting
The death toll after renewed fighting between rival Central African Republic militias in Birao has risen to 38, the UN said
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16 SeptemberAsia Pacific
US service member killed in action in Afghanistan, NATO Resolute Support says
US Green Beret Sergeant 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin was killed in action in Afghanistan's Wardak province, Special Operations Command said
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16 SeptemberAfrica
Boko Haram suicide bomb and gun attack at Maiduguri university military camp
Boko Haram fighters staged gun and suicide bomb attacks on a military camp outside the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state
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16 SeptemberMiddle East
Trump says US is ‘locked and loaded’ after attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure
President Donald Trump said the US is "locked and loaded" to respond to attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure sent oil prices soaring
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15 SeptemberAfrica
Cameroon soldiers killed in ‘Boko Haram’ attack near Fotokol
Six Cameroon soldiers were killed in Soueram near Fotokol in the Lake Chad area near the border with Nigeria in an attack blamed on "Boko Haram"
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15 SeptemberMiddle East
Syrian government labels SDF ‘separatist terrorist militias’ ahead of Ankara talks
In a rare shift of rhetoric, Syria's foreign ministry called the Syrian Democratic Forces "terrorists" ahead of a Russia-Iran-Turkey summit in Ankara
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