On September 5, Guyana received six people expelled from the United States who were not Guyanese: four Cubans and two Afghans, according to Guyanese reporting. Guyana’s government says the arrivals were vetted, had no criminal backgrounds, and entered under a one-year arrangement administered with the International Organization for Migration. Officially, their placement is temporary.

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The State Department has renewed its strongest possible warning to Americans considering a trip to Libya: do not go.

The department’s current Libya advisory is Level 4, the highest of the four travel-advisory levels. It warns Americans not to travel to Libya “for any reason” because of crime, terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict. The advisory also warns of health risks and notes that violence between competing armed groups can erupt without warning.

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The Trump administration announced a major oil deal with Venezuela on Friday that would purportedly give the United States rights to 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, or 20 percent of the country’s oil reserves. Much information and key details are still lacking, but everything we know about the deal is troubling:

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Belated parliamentary funding for Taiwan’s drone program isn’t likely to satisfy President Lai Ching-te. Nonetheless, pressure from Washington has evidently helped achieve spending authorization for this key part of the government’s effort to adopt a hedgehog defense strategy.

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For decades after the Cuban Revolution’s victory in 1959, influential anticommunist circles in the United States claimed that Cuba’s communist government sowed social division and allied with left-wing groups to help defeat Washington during the Cold War.

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One of Iran’s responses to the joint U.S.-Israel attack of 28 February 2026 was targeting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. That did not stop the Trump administration from insisting that, notwithstanding blockades, sea mines, and the targeting of tankers, oil is still moving out of the Gulf at near pre-war levels. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has been the most consistent messenger.

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According to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, North Korea is preparing to send as many as 50,000 fresh troops to support Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. While the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been unable to verify Zelensky’s claim, it has not fallen on deaf ears in Seoul.

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President Donald Trump’s instruction to the Pentagon on Sunday to ‘substantially reduce’ joint military exercises with South Korea comes at a particularly difficult moment.

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As vice president and director of RAND Global and Emerging Risks, Matan Chorev oversees research on some of the most consequential challenges facing the United States and the world. That portfolio ranges from the rapid advance of artificial intelligence to growing 

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The Trump administration’s decision to put $85.5 million of U.S. government money into a bauxite operation in Guyana looks, at first glance, like an oddity. Bauxite is not itself on the U.S. government’s list of critical minerals; Guinea, not Guyana, is the world’s largest bauxite producer; and Guinea is an Atlantic-facing country with which Washington has been seeking closer economic ties. Why, then, is the Pentagon putting equity capital into a Guyanese mine?

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A New York Times investigation published this week has pulled back the curtain on one of the most violent and well-connected human-smuggling networks operating between Cuba, Mexico, and the United States: a group Mexican authorities call La Mafia Cubana en Quintana Roo, the Cuban Mafia in Quintana Roo. The report is notable not just for the brutality it documents, but for where its threads lead — allegedly all the way to the inner circle of the Castro family itself.

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Latin America’s most powerful criminal groups have expanded beyond the drug trade – and have become more resilient as a result. That’s what my colleagues and I discovered while researching for a new study on the structural transformation of organized crime across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Operation Epic Fury, which began on Feb. 28, has showcased a formidable display of airpower. U.S. aircraft have struck targets including air defenses, coastal surveillance systems, command and control facilities, missile and drone sites, naval forces, and communications networks.

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In late July, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila for the annual ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting with a message Southeast Asian officials have heard, in one form or another, for a decade. The United States, he assured them, remains a committed Indo-Pacific partner—devoted to Southeast Asia, dependable, and invested in the region’s security and prosperity.

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The US Africa Command (AFRICOM) on 16 May 2026 stated that in a joint campaign with Nigerian forces in north-eastern Nigeria, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, head of ISIS global operations, along with other senior ISIS terrorists, were killed.[i] Leveraging US intelligence capabilities, the largely Nigeria-led ground forces benefitted from American advanced surveillance, intelligence analysis and joint planning. AFRICOM Commander Gen.

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Over the past few days, Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta has been thrust into the center of Europe’s migration debate after a sudden mass crossing from neighboring Morocco overwhelmed local authorities and forced Madrid to deploy military support to the border.

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The ceasefire that temporarily halted major combat operations in Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. campaign against Iran that began on Feb. 28, has now collapsed.

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