Americas
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Jan- 2020 -21 January
US cyber war against ISIS faced bureaucratic hurdles, newly declassified documents reveal
US Cyber Command's operation against Islamic State faced a number of problems, including difficulties with interagency coordination
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18 January
US sanctions Iran IRGC general, alleging he ordered protest crackdown
The US sanctioned Iran IRGC Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour for overseeing a massacre of protestors in November
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10 January
Colombia’s president calls on UN to extend peace mission until 2022
President Ivan Duque called on the UN to extend its peace verification mission between Colombia's government and former FARC rebels until 2022
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Dec- 2019 -13 December
US SOCOM awards Lightforce USA $54 million contract for P-VPS rifle scopes
US Defense Department awarded Lightforce USA, Inc., a $53,735,930 contract for Precision-Variable Power Scopes (P-VPS) for Special Operations
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10 December
Chile air force C-130 transport plane disappears en route to Antarctica
A Chilean military plane with 38 people aboard has gone missing after taking off for a base in Antarctica and is presumed to have crashed
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6 December
Shooter who killed 3 at US Navy base identified as Saudi air force student
A Saudi air force trainee shot three people dead at a U.S. naval base in Florida on Friday; the Saudi king offered condolences to victims
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5 December
Raytheon awarded missile systems maintenance contract modification for US and Spain
The Pentagon awarded Raytheon Missile Systems a $28,881,512 contract modification to maintain missiles of the US Navy and Spanish government
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5 December
L3 Technologies awarded $37.5 million contract for US Special Operations aiming lasers
The US awarded a $37.5 million contract to L3 Technologies to deliver precision aiming lasers (PAL) for Special Operations Command
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Nov- 2019 -25 November
Trump fires US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer over SEAL misconduct case
The US Navy secretary criticized Donald Trump after being sacked in a dispute over a SEAL commando whose demotion for misconduct was reversed
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15 November
Esper says $10bn Pentagon JEDI contract awarded fairly after Amazon claims ‘bias’
The U.S. Defense Secretary said a $10 billion cloud computing contract was awarded to Microsoft fairly after Amazon alleged "bias" in the process
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