Tag: troops

• Wednesday, September 11th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Venezuela starts war games along the Colombian border mobilizing 150.000 troops

  

  Venezuela's armed forces chiefs said on Tuesday they had begun mobilizing 150,000 troops for military exercises on the Colombian border amid renewed tensions between Bogota and Caracas.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Troops sent to contain violence in northeast Brazil: criminal gangs challenging Bolsonaro?

  

  Brazil's government ordered troops to the northeast of the country on Friday to contain violence by criminal groups in the first test of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's hard-line law-and-order platform.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 16:26 UTC

  US latest wars have cost the Treasury 4.4 trillion USD, says academic report

  

  United States President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan and referred to a one trillion US dollars price tag for US wars. The figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the US Treasury and ignores more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released Wednesday.