News from February 2023
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Ethiopia. Overview: The Government of Ethiopia continued to partner with the United States government on counterterrorism issues in 2021, though in a diminished capacity owing to emerging domestic security threats. Al-Shabaab and ISIS terrorist threats emanating from Somalia remain a high priority for...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Kosovo. Overview: Kosovo continued its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States and the international community as a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The government is drafting a new combined Strategy and Action Plan for Counterterrorism (CT) and Countering Violent Extremism ...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Philippines. Overview: The Philippine government placed significant resources toward countering threats from terrorist groups that operate primarily in the country’s South. Philippine military forces remained engaged in counterterrorism operations. The Philippine military, law enforcement, and judicial...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Cyprus. Overview: The Republic of Cyprus collaborated closely with the United States, the EU, and other countries - bilaterally and multilaterally - in international counterterrorism efforts in 2021. Since 1974, the island of Cyprus has been de facto divided into the Republic of Cyprus government-controlled ...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Uganda. Overview: Uganda is considered to have one of the most effective security forces in the region with respect to CT capabilities. Nonetheless, in 2021 Uganda experienced the first terrorist incidents on home soil since the 2010 bombings claimed by al-Shabaab. Four bombings in October and November...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Gary Lee Hodges, 72, of Bigfork, Montana was sentenced today to 27 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for two counts of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. Hodges must also register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Richmond man last week on charges of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Robert Fuller Named Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Field Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Côte d’Ivoire. Overview: Côte d’Ivoire was added to the 2021 Country Report on Terrorism because a significant increase in attacks from violent extremists in the North spilled over the porous border from Burkina Faso. The Government of Côte d’Ivoire assesses the Macina Liberation Front (aka Katiba Macina)...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Committee Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued the following statement today in advance of the World Health Organization’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body meeting this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart announced that Shaheyne Phillip Thomas, 28, from Tuskegee, Alabama, received a 100-month prison sentence. Thomas had previously pleaded guilty to committing federal gun and drug offenses while on supervised release from a previous conviction. The judge also ordered that Thomas serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department, together with the New York State Office of the Attorney General, announced today that the United States and New York State have entered into settlement agreements with the landlord and several individuals and entities involved in the operation of Saratoga Center for Rehabilitation ...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Thailand. Overview: Thailand did not experience any attacks attributed to transnational terrorist groups in 2021, and violence was limited to attacks attributed to ethnonationalist insurgents in the country’s Deep South (the southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and parts of Songkhla).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Carbon River Rainforest Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Title: Crowded Out the Competition. Main Text. In the middle canopy, younger, smaller trees compete with each other for the little sunlight that filters through the thick green roof of...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: The C5+1 diplomatic platform represents the U.S. government’s whole of government approach to Central Asia, jointly engaging all five Central Asian governments (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan).
