- The Department of Justice announced it would not prosecute six police officers involved in the death of Freddy Gray. [Link]
- The US army has moved two tank brigades to northern Poland. The US says it is responding to concerns about Russia war games. [Link]
- Defense Secretary James Mattis said the US needs to retain all three parts of the nuclear triad. In January, Mattis questioned the need for ground based missile silos. [Link]
- Russia offered to reset relations with the US in March. [Link]
- The US State Department and Russian Foreign Ministry issued statements saying that they feel no need for further escalation of hostilities. [Link]
- Russia’s Zapad war games have begun. About 13,000 troops are involved in the war games. [Link]
- China and Russia warn the US not to attempt a regime change in North Korea. [Link]
- A look at Southern Asian tensions from an Indian perspective. [Link]
- This article looks at the jihadist support for the Rohingya. [Link]
- Myanmar’s location between India and China should discourage the West from intervening in the conflict. [Link]
- After 9/11, the US developed a surveillance centers in Ethiopia to spy on Ethiopians and others in the Horn of Africa. [Link]
- This article profiles the possible Iraqi Kurdish state. [Link]
- The US declassified a map that identified the location of 81 unexploded US bombs in Mosul. [Link]
- Dozens of Islamic State defectors have crossed into Turkey from the Idlib Province of Syria. [Link]
- The US used a base in Germany as a route to get weapons to Syrian rebels. [Link]
- This article explains the logistics of the US weapons support to Syrian rebel groups. [Link]
- China backs a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights plan to investigate atrocities in Yemen. The US and Saudi Arabia continue to oppose the plan. [Link]
