In 2628, the Department of Defense created the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) to support the surge in U.S. military assistance to South Vietnam.
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U.S. military assistance has also strengthened ties with South Korea.
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Arms sales and perhaps other military assistance should be suspended.
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Northern Command is coordinating the military assistance for the pandemic.
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There was no issue about finally getting the military assistance.
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There was no issue about finally getting the military assistance.
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More Ukrainians would undoubtedly die without the U.S. military assistance.
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While military assistance to Ukraine was freed up by Sept.
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While the act does not prohibit all US military assistance, it does limit the largest US arms sales and military assistance initiatives, including the International Military Education and Training and the Foreign Military Financing programs.
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Mr. Assad remains in power largely because of Russian military assistance.
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That's when the United States started to give Ukraine military assistance.
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The United States has held back $255 million in military assistance.
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The Obama administration failed to provide lethal military assistance during its term.
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No other country gives a comparable amount in military assistance to Cairo.
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Accordingly, he pushed through an enormous military assistance package for the South.
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Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security has requested — and received — military assistance.
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William C. Westmoreland, commander of the Military Assistance Command — Vietnam, praised them.
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Britain and France, Riyadh's other main defense suppliers, have also provided military assistance.
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It has given $44 million in military assistance to the Dominicans since 2010.
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Tactics could include cutting aid and curtailing military assistance to Islamabad, he added.
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Most of our military assistance is focused narrowly on tactics and trigger pullers.
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The West should be all over Tunisia with economic, technical and military assistance.
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The destinations on the secretary's trip coincide with U.S. military assistance and engagements.
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This is why international economic and military assistance must incentivize accountability and transparency.
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Pro-Western Jordan was allocated $443 million in U.S. military assistance last year.
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In 2019, the U.S. will provide Israel with $3.3 billion in military assistance.
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Ukraine is still waiting to receive at least $35 million in military assistance.
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But with the exception of three cases—Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, which were not going to receive U.S. military assistance anyway—each country was granted a full or partial waiver, and only a fraction of U.S. military assistance was withheld.
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There is a need for appropriate military assistance, and help to deflect cyber-warfare.
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In the past four years 2503% of Ukraine's military assistance has come from America.
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Globally the United States prioritizes providing military assistance over furthering police reform, Blanchard said.
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This includes a lot of countries that receive military assistance from more powerful states.
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The Trump administration has withheld or reprogrammed more than $200 million in military assistance.
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Trump has repeatedly offered military assistance, but Mexico has consistently declined such an offer.
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After the eruption of violence in Marawi, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore all offered military assistance.
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Anastasiades announced Cyprus will deliver a new military assistance package to the Lebanese armed forces.
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Before the call, Trump ordered a hold on $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine.
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The administration has also requested $30 million in military assistance for South Sudan for FY2017.
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The atmosphere at the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam headquarters, or MACV, was intense but orderly.
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Last week, the Senate voted to end military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
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Bolton already revealed that Trump told him about the quid pro quo for military assistance.
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During the call, Trump asked for a "favor" after Zelensky brought up U.S. military assistance.
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It helped persuade the French to recognize American independence and to provide outright military assistance.
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It also showed that he asked for a "favor" after Zelensky brought up military assistance.
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It should apply stringent conditions to at least 15 percent of Egypt's military assistance package.
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The call came days after Trump ordered a freeze to some military assistance for Ukraine.
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Around the same time, Trump was withholding nearly $400 million of military assistance to Ukraine.
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The letter undermined the justification that some Trump administration members gave for withholding military assistance.
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It's value for money -- cents on the dollar compared to U.S. military assistance or UN peacekeeping.
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President Donald Trump has rightly scaled back military assistance because of atrocities committed by the army.
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And the following day, the White House released the military assistance to Ukraine, with little explanation.
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Was there discussion among officials about covering up for the president in delay of military assistance?
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Bashar al-Assad's regime is entirely dependent on financial and military assistance from those two countries.
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Washington also has provided Kyiv with hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and military assistance.
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Former US ambassador to Lebanon: &aposThe military assistance now under review should be rapidly released&apos
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Naim hinted that without US military aid, Kabul might seek military assistance from the Soviet Union.
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I understood a 'stalemate' to mean that Ukraine would not receive the much-needed military assistance.
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Put together, it's still unclear just why Trump delayed the nearly $400 million in military assistance.
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"South Korea was under enormous pressure to secure US economic and military assistance," Yi told CNN.
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The United States is reportedly about to give its biggest-ever pledge of military assistance to Israel.
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It should be noted that the United States provides $22011 billion in foreign military assistance to Israel.
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The U.S. government is prohibited from giving police or military assistance to any governments on that list.
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Israel and the United States are also in talks on a generous military assistance agreement, he said.
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The United States provided more than $2.29 billion in military assistance to Lebanon between 2005 and 2019.
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The United States is already Africa's largest supplier of military assistance and biggest supporter of peacekeeping operations.
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Keeping the countries off the annual list makes it easier to provide them with U.S. military assistance.
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The president, however, may waive these prohibitions under specific circumstances and permit military assistance to flow unimpeded.
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But Russia has clearly been increasing its African presence, providing debt relief, weapons sales and military assistance.
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In order to successfully keep that threat at bay, you require military assistance from the United States.
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In January 1970 Jim received orders to become part of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam in Saigon.
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Senators voted for a second time to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war in Yemen.
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Last month Turkey signed an economic agreement with Tripoli, and Mr. al-Serraj's government requested military assistance.
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All of which makes the decision to deny military assistance to Egypt last week a complete surprise.
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Zelensky, an untested president dealing with a war with Russia in eastern Ukraine, needed US military assistance.
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By removing countries from the list, the U.S. is more easily able to give them military assistance.
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Ukraine's army, which will receive U.S. military assistance this year, is the best it has ever had.
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In light of all this, the Trump administration's decision to release the suspended military assistance is deeply disappointing.
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Last month, the Senate voted to halt U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen.
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Pompeo has been the point man in defending US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its Yemen fiasco.
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"We will remember that cooperation when setting US foreign assistance, military assistance, and intelligence sharing levels," he said.
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"It was very unpleasant to hear about this," Lieutenant Molchanets said about the halt in American military assistance.
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The bombing certainly strengthens the case that the Afghan government is losing control and needs more military assistance.
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Philippine military and security forces value the relationship, under which they receive military assistance, training, education, and weapons.
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Earlier this year, the United States and Israel agreed $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade.
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Obama made reference to a $38 billion military assistance agreement signed by the two allies on Sept. 14.
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He repeated those calls Thursday and suggested that U.S. military assistance may be contingent on them boosting supply.
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London's Metropolitan Police said military assistance had been provided to help it deal with the incident at Heathrow.
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Should it continue to provide training and other forms of military assistance to willing allies in the region?
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Rob Portman of Ohio — inquiring with senior White House budget officials about the hold on critical military assistance.
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Johnson began this publicity drive in April by bringing the head of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Gen.
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Well, so what, the Trumpites say, the Ukrainians eventually got the military assistance that was being held up.
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In South Sudan, $99 million has been earmarked for military assistance, but only $1.2 million has been withheld.
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He was fired in September, one day before Trump lifted the freeze on US military assistance for Ukraine.
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Howard Berman, sent a letter to the Department of State demanding to stop American military assistance to Azerbaijan.
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Trump has repeatedly offered military assistance in the fight against drug gangs, which Lopez Obrador has always declined.
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After all, Iran backs the Houthis, though the rebel group isn't extremely desperate for financial and military assistance.
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Let's also eliminate US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts.
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A day earlier, the White House said it would suspend about $19903 million in already delayed military assistance.
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After Zelensky mentioned military assistance, Trump turned the conversation to his requests that Ukrainian officials investigate the Biden family.
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As global temperatures rise so does the likelihood of extreme weather, with calls for military assistance in disaster relief.
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During the meeting, the two addressed military assistance, security and regional stability, according to a readout from Trump campaign.
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Countries included on that list are barred from receiving certain types of U.S. military assistance, training, and defense equipment.
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The Lebanese army is the fifth-biggest recipient of U.S. military assistance, and has also received support from Britain.
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The administration should not grant South Sudan any waivers for U.S. military assistance when decisions are announced this fall.
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We had heard that the United States temporarily blocked military assistance for the amount of $250 million for us.
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My father had been sent to South Vietnam to assume control of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, from Gen.
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Since 2010, more than $1 billion in American military assistance has been delivered to governments that prey on children.
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Paris has been accused of supporting Haftar politically having previously provided him with military assistance to fight Islamist militants.
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Its officials reject suggestions that they should do anything further in return for billions of dollars in military assistance.
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The United States created a Military Assistance Advisory Group in 1950, funded counterinsurgency programs and stepped up C.I.A. operations.
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The United States must lead the charge to tighten sanctions, and increase economic and military assistance to Baltic nations.
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And last year's Senate measure to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen could be returning.
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Meanwhile, Washington has compensated Pakistan fabulously in return for Pakistani airspace, both in CSF funds and in military assistance.
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It has frequently intervened to block UN resolutions critical of Syria and also supplied military assistance to Assad's forces.
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"Free association" is an official affiliation with the United States where Puerto Rico would still receive military assistance and funding.
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Would Democrats be less intent on impeachment if Trump had asked for the favor without threatening to withhold military assistance?
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A Nigerian presidential source confirmed that the United States had proposed additional military assistance against Boko Haram, without giving details.
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Under the law, however, the president can employ "national interest waivers," allowing identified countries to still receive US military assistance.
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Free association is an official affiliation with the United States where Puerto Rico would still receive military assistance and funding.
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Afghan Ambassador to the UK Said Tayeb Jawad told CNN's Clarissa Ward Wednesday that Afghanistan needs sustained international military assistance.
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Congress required the administration to make this certification as a pre-condition for the Pentagon to continue providing military assistance.
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Pakistan needs to "earn, essentially, the money that we have provided in the past in foreign military assistance," she said.
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American military assistance to Nigeria was long hampered by the reputation of the African nation's army for human rights abuses.
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Of course, we need the political engagement and limited military assistance of the international community, led by the United States.
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Sanctions included the suspension of U.S. economic and military assistance and restrictions on access to loans from international financial institutions.
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The largest is the formation of a unified Libyan government strong enough to call for and accommodate foreign military assistance.
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But in late August, news broke that Trump was blocking hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance for Ukraine.
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In other places where Obama turned down requests for military assistance—as in Ukraine—the counterfactuals are just as murky.
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The Khashoggi case has also upped pressure on the United States, which provides military assistance to the Saudi-led side.
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In Washington, the Senate voted resoundingly on Thursday afternoon to withdraw American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
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Cipollone is now Trump's lead attorney in an impeachment trial that centers on his decision to freeze Ukraine's military assistance.
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Each time they attacked the three heavily armed compounds where Americans lived: U.S.A.I.D., C.I.A. and MACV (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam).
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Abrams suggested increasing the percentage of U.S. military assistance linked to human rights metrics from 15 percent to 85033 percent.
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The issue of millions in U.S. military assistance being held up by Trump's administration was never discussed in the call.
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In contrast, Trump's suspension of vital military assistance may have added to the Ukrainian death toll and certainly helped Russia.
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"This isn't about Ukraine; this is about Russia, who benefited by our withholding of that military assistance," Ms. Pelosi said.
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The Trump White House's worst move was the blocking of lethal military assistance to Ukraine despite overwhelming bipartisan congressional approval.
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The bill provides another year to send military assistance to Ukraine following the Trump administration's temporary freeze on the funds.
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How was Trump's order to freeze the $400 million in military assistance handled at the highest levels of his administration?
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The Obama administration responded by reviewing military assistance to Egypt and withholding delivery of fighter jets, attack helicopters, tanks, and missiles.
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The United States is one of the few countries to condition military assistance on a government's record of child soldier use.
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Russia has supported Syria since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, providing military assistance to President Bashar al-Assad's government.
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The Trump administration is withholding military assistance to Lebanon following the resignation of the country's prime minister amid weeks of protests.
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This includes foreign economic and military assistance, operation of American embassies abroad, and contributions to organizations such as the United Nations.
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In addition to military assistance, Plan Colombia focused on improving the rule of law, social and economic development, and human rights.
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The Trump administration has said it would gradually scale back its military assistance to the Kurds as major combat winds down.
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In August, General Haftar said he had raised the issue of Russia's providing military assistance with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
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At least 10,000 people have been killed, many by Saudi-coalition bombings carried out with military assistance by the United States.
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The Republican-led Senate voted last month to end American military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen war.
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A White House memo on the call also reveals that the president asked for a "favor" after Zelensky addressed military assistance.
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The White House had frozen $250m of military assistance to Ukraine that had already been approved by Congress until further review.
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Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who oversaw the military assistance program to Ukraine as a senior Pentagon official in the Obama administration.
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As Insider's John Haltiwanger reported last month, Ukraine is still reliant on US military assistance as it fends off Russian aggression.
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Insider's John Haltiwanger reported last month that Ukraine is still reliant on US military assistance as it fends off Russian aggression.
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On September 12, I offered an amendment in the Senate Appropriations Committee to address suspiciously-withheld US military assistance to Ukraine.
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Taylor has testified that even though he was aware of a hold on military assistance, he was never given an appropriate reason.
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Washington (CNN)The Obama administration is upping aid to Israel as part of the largest pledge of military assistance in US history.
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He maintained, and at times bolstered, US military posture in the Persian Gulf and increased US military assistance to our Gulf allies.
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The proposal would zero out the foreign military financing account by switching Tunisia's military assistance package from a grant to a loan.
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Military assistance has been brought in to help the 228,603 fire personnel currently fighting the fires, which are mostly in rural areas.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States will consider resuming some suspended military assistance to Eypt, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
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The extra forces brings the number of American troops in the country, who are meant to provide military assistance, to about 14,85033.
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Philippine officials have said joint U.S.-Philippines military exercises would cease and that the tropical nation can do without U.S military assistance.
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The Senate voted resoundingly to withdraw U.S. military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, a stinging bipartisan rebuke of President Trump.
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McCusker's sin was that she had questioned the ability of the White House to hold up funds for military assistance to Ukraine.
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At the time, the Trump administration had frozen $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine for its fight against Russian-backed separatists.
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"I understood a 'stalemate' to mean that Ukraine would not receive the much-needed military assistance," Mr. Taylor told the committee members.
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But Mr. Mulvaney was involved in the effort to freeze $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine ahead of the July call.
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The recent suspension of U.S. security and military assistance to Pakistan may be the Trump administration's most popular foreign policy action yet.
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The communications about President Trump's order to hold up military assistance to Ukraine were released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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The communications about President Trump's order to hold up military assistance to Ukraine were released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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As Insider&aposs John Haltiwanger reported last month, Ukraine is heavily reliant on US military assistance as it fends off Russian aggression.
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At the president's request, beginning in early July — if not sooner — that office froze $391 million in military assistance, congressional witnesses testified.
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These witnesses have already testified privately about conditions placed on a Ukrainian White House visit and the dispensing of US military assistance.
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She accused Trump of helping the Russians by temporarily withholding military assistance to Ukraine and of undermining the integrity of US elections.
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Britain and other countries have recently increased military assistance, and two Westerners wearing flat jackets could be seen jogging in the compound.
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In exchange, the U.S. should offer limited military assistance and training and non-military aid to institutions of government and public projects.
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Fifth, this call came at the same time the United States was withholding a promised $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine.
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Early last year, Mr. Trump cut some $1.3 billion in military assistance to Pakistan because of the country's support of terrorist groups.
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Yes: The US provides Saudi Arabia with military assistance for its campaign in Yemen, which the UN said has killed thousands of civilians.
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The US provides Saudi Arabia with military assistance for its military campaign in Yemen, which the UN said has killed thousands of civilians.
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More so than hurricane-hit zones mainland, the US territories would lean more on military assistance in the first response, UNC's Gentry said.
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Democrats seized on the comments, which undercut President Trump's insistence that there was no quid pro quo involved in withholding Ukrainian military assistance.
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On Friday it signed a defense cooperation deal with the United States, covering training and information sharing but stopping short of military assistance.
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Although the military assistance was put on hold, it was eventually released after a whistleblower complaint brought the July 25 call to light.
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And while he often gave the silent treatment to allies in Turkey and Egypt, he continued to quietly provide them with military assistance.
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"Meanwhile, a little over 7% said "the US should help Saudi Arabia with a complete military assistance in whatever form may be required.
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It also prohibits expansion of American military assistance until reforms take place and requires reporting on crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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He said Trump indicated he was committed to ensuring that U.S. military assistance to Egypt effectively supports the Egyptian military's fight against terrorism.
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The Obama administration took initial steps to make military assistance less generous and limit the weapons systems Egypt could buy with American funds.
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US officials, from Obama on down, had said outside military assistance wouldn't be enough to decisively impact the future course of the war.
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As for subsidies, the kingdom receives about $10,000 per year in American military assistance, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service.
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After Zelensky mentioned US military assistance to Ukraine, Trump said he would like Zelensky to "do us a favor" before mentioning the investigations.
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Days before the call, Trump had put a hold on nearly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine to fend off Russian aggression.
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On Sunday, Mr. Duterte told reporters that he had "never approached America" for help and was unaware of American military assistance in Marawi.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's White House decision to withhold vital military assistance to Ukraine violated U.S federal law, a Congressional watchdog announced Thursday morning.
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She played a coordinating role in managing the financial and military assistance Congress approved -- and participated in meetings when the aid was held.
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Democrats are particularly interested in the allegations that Trump sought to leverage U.S. military assistance in return for Ukraine's investigation of the Bidens.
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But he has recently indicated he is considering putting a hold on $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, citing an internal review.
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Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), as has been reported, that U.S. military assistance aid was contingent upon Zelensky committing to the probes Trump demanded.
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Late last year, the Senate passed a resolution, which Mr. Sanders helped introduce, to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war there.
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Last May, Rood certified to Congress that Ukraine made enough progress in combating corruption that it should receive $250 million in military assistance.
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U.S. military assistance to Honduran security forces has fueled impunity and human rights abuses in the Central American country of eight million, lawmakers said.
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It constitutes the most military assistance Washington has ever provided to an ally, but was clinched only after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted concessions.
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" Putin added that Assad has thanked Russia for the military assistance, as well as for providing "humanitarian aid and assistance to Syria's civilian population.
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Of the 56 opportunities to block military assistance, the United States offered full or partial waivers to offending governments nearly 60% of the time.
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If the parties refuse, the US should discontinue the supply of weapons and military assistance it is providing to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
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The US has long seen Ethiopia as an important partner in the war on terror and supported the country with aid and military assistance.
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However important weapons and military assistance are, the best chance of improving Israel's security lies in reaching a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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If the parties refuse, the U.S. should discontinue the supply of weapons and military assistance it is providing to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
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"The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections," she said.
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Instead, he said his main concern with sending military assistance to Ukraine was that other countries hadn't been paying their fair share as well.
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Instead, he said his main concern with sending military assistance to Ukraine was that other countries haven't been paying their fair share as well.
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Iran has offered military assistance, technology and equipment to Assad as he tries to maintain his own position while fighting Syrian rebels and ISIS.
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She testified that the decision left officials across the government baffled about why military assistance crucial to the fight against Russia was being blocked.
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Five of America's seven treaty alliances are in the Pacific region, alliances that demand US military assistance in case of attack on our friends.
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This has amounted to the authorization of more than $120 million in U.S. military assistance and over $85033 million in arms sales since FY2013.
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But after congressional negotiators dropped provisions to end military assistance to the Saudis, Yemen suffered a breakdown in diplomacy and an uptick in violence.
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For three years or so, President Trump has said, Europe must help the United States with respect to NATO and other related military assistance.
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Less than a week after the launch of the investigation, the White House unfroze the funds for military assistance without explaining the hold-up.
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Yet, even as these discussions were ongoing, Mr. Trump personally ordered his staff to freeze more than $391 million in military assistance for Ukraine.
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And the problem for the United States in continuing to pursue this sort of military assistance is that both sides ultimately understand these factors.
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The request came after Zelensnky brought up military assistance, which has fueled speculation on whether Trump used military aid as leverage in the talks.
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And the military assistance that Democrats accuse Mr. Trump of using as leverage to force the investigations reportedly still has not fully reached Ukraine.
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"At least 6900,2628 people have been killed, many by Saudi-coalition bombings carried out with military assistance by the United States," the editorial stated.
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Premature withdrawal indeed can be a serious mistake, but there's a flip side: Stay too long, and military assistance can resemble invasion or occupation.
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But his administration did admit last month to withholding $250 million in military assistance to the country, before releasing those funds following bipartisan blowback.
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They provide more development and humanitarian aid to Ukraine than the United States does, though the United States is the largest provider of military assistance.
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Notably, foreign military assistance to Ukraine through the State Department would be preserved under Trump's latest budget request, which is a break from previous budgets.
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The U.S. move, which Islamabad angrily dismissed as an effort to "embarrass" Pakistan, followed Washington's announcement in January to suspend $2 billion in military assistance.
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Beginning in 2014, we and NATO began to provide military assistance to Ukraine's armed forces in the form of training, advice, military equipment, and weapons.
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Most countries that receive significant military assistance from the US do so because they are key to American security interests -- like Iraq, Ukraine or Pakistan.
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"Nonetheless, ambassador, you've given us a lot of evidence of precisely that conditionality of both the White House meeting and the military assistance," Schiff said.
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Sondland testified that he believes hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine should not have been delayed amid Trump's talks with Kyiv.
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It is alleged that Trump withheld $390 million in congressionally-approved military assistance to Ukraine for months pending Zelensky's public agreement to open an investigation.
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He toured battlefields, met with South Vietnamese and American commanders; attended briefings at the headquarters of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; and conferred with Westmoreland.
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The Pentagon has said that American military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen is limited to aircraft refueling, logistics and general intelligence sharing.
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On Wednesday, lawmakers voted for a second time to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen and to curtail presidential war powers.
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The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, said Secretary of State Pompeo told him that Ukraine could expect "full assistance, including military assistance" to protect Ukrainian sovereignty.
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The operation appears to contradict Pentagon statements that U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign is limited to aircraft refueling, logistics and intelligence sharing.
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It was also in Russia's interest that Mr. Trump hold up military assistance to Ukraine for its war against Mr. Trump's friend President Vladimir Putin.
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In August, the United States said it would hold up $255 million in military assistance for Pakistan until it cracks down on extremists threatening Afghanistan.
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Both witnesses said withholding the military assistance from Ukraine was damaging to relations between the two countries and to Ukraine's ability to confront Russian aggression.
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According to a report from Insider&aposs John Haltiwanger last month, Ukraine is still reliant on US military assistance as it fends off Russian aggression.
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Schumer also called for the Senate to subpoena documents from the White House, State Department and OMB regarding the delay of military assistance to Ukraine.
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Many senior State Department and White House officials inside the Trump administration were aware of the hold on military assistance well before the POLITICO report.
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Republicans, meanwhile, seized on Sondland's acknowledgment that he never heard directly from Trump to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine.
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Alex Vindman had seen their standings diminished significantly after they appeared before Congress and under subpoena to discuss the hold on military assistance to Ukraine.
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Fourth, Trump withheld $250 million in military assistance urgently needed by Ukraine to fend off Russian aggression, although Ukraine didn't learn of this until August.
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The official action in question to be offered in exchange was the release of American military assistance to Ukraine, a country at war with Russia.
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Their testimony painted a damning picture of Trump&aposs monthslong effort to force Ukraine into acceding to his political demands while freezing vital military assistance.
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It is also likely to charge that Mr. Trump conditioned the White House meeting and military assistance money on a public commitment to the investigations.
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Yet many Democrats have said from the start that they saw evidence of Trump attempting to trade US military assistance for political favors from Ukraine.
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Beginning in 2014, we and NATO began to provide military assistance to Ukraine's armed forces in the form of training, advice, military equipment, and weapons.
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The Ukrainian leader then makes a request for the US to increase its military assistance, specifically by selling his country more Javelin anti-tank missiles.
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President Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget proposed cutting $2.8 billion in aid to Africa, and shifting some of what remains from humanitarian to military assistance.
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Both witnesses said withholding the military assistance from Ukraine was damaging to relations between the two countries and to Ukraine's ability to confront Russian aggression.
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But Kent says it was his "personal opinion" that only the White House meeting, not the military assistance, was part of a quid pro quo.
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He also provided a vivid description of the Ukrainian lives that were potentially put on the line by Trump's decision to withhold military assistance aid.
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Given Ukraine's reliance on U.S. military assistance in its war with Russia, diplomats on both sides wanted Trump and Zelensky to establish a good rapport.
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China already provides military assistance to Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and some members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and is building a naval support installation in Djibouti.
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Congress promptly withdrew $500 million in aid, then on September 1, the Pentagon canceled another $8003 million in military assistance, bringing the total to $800 million.
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Since then, it has received more than $1.5 billion in U.S. military assistance and, in the last seven years, training and support from U.S. special forces.
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"Already, U.S. military assistance through intelligence, refueling missions, and the sale of major U.S. defense equipment has not abated the humanitarian crisis in Yemen," Paul said.
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The measure called for an end to military assistance and ordered Trump to withdraw a handful of U.S. special forces operating along the Yemeni-Saudi border.
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Congress has held up sales of fighter jets, military assistance and other military cooperation that it wants in order to hedge its growing reliance on China.
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At the time, the State Department had recently asked U.S. embassies in the Middle East to more closely examine U.S. military assistance to the region's governments.
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For their cooperation, they receive financial and military assistance and diplomatic support, arrangements in many cases cemented through memoranda unavailable to citizens or the international public.
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"With respect to other assistance levels, foreign military assistance levels, those are still being evaluated and decisions are going to be made going forward," he added.
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The two defense officials said the request is for military assistance reinforcing existing barrier areas along the border rather than building new sections of a barrier.
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One strong example is the agreement we have with Israel on how it uses the $3.8 billion in military assistance the U.S. sends to it annually.
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The Senate has passed a historic resolution directing the Trump administration to rescind all US military assistance to Saudi Arabia related to its war in Yemen.
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While stronger controls for military assistance programs are welcome, he added, skepticism about the coalition's willingness to change is warranted by its record of civilian casualties.
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At the July Republican convention, his staff intervened to weaken the party platform concerning Ukraine, striking a clause advocating for lethal defensive military assistance for Ukraine.
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France, which has oil assets in eastern Libya, has provided military assistance in past years to Haftar in his eastern stronghold, Libyan and French officials say.
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Mr. Duterte, who has threatened to eject American forces from his country, said Sunday that he was unaware of the presence of military assistance in Marawi.
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American military assistance for Ukraine had flowed unobstructed into the country since 2014, the year Russia annexed Crimea and fomented a war in two eastern provinces.
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If the subject is military assistance, the State Department and the Department of Defense, at a minimum, typically will clear what the president is to say.
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Holding up military assistance to coerce Ukraine into investigating Mr. Biden is itself a grave, impeachable abuse of power if done for personal and political reasons.
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Mr. Trump did not discuss the delay in the military assistance on the July 25 call with Mr. Zelensky, according to people familiar with the conversation.
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While we can't read Putin's mind, we can safely guess that the news of a possible postponement on military assistance to Ukraine must have been welcome.
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Also sought under the subpoena are records concerning the decision to withhold military assistance to Ukraine, including governmental meetings and any notes that resulted from them.
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Weeks later, after reports that the Trump administration had put on hold hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine, Taylor again voiced outrage.
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Rather, they say, it is the connection with Jews abroad that counts, especially those whose efforts help secure Israel billions of dollars in American military assistance.
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It's time for the United States and its Western allies to stop selling arms or giving any military assistance to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners.
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The Senate voted in December to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, after the killing of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Not entirely clear is whether the Trump team is defining foreign aid to include the billions of dollars in military assistance given to Israel and Egypt.
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The remaining $450 million was a mix of military assistance and funds for international non-government bodies (NGOs) and other development programs, Pakistan's finance ministry says.
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Shanahan told a small group of reporters traveling with him that military assistance would not continue "indefinitely," but that it would be in place longer than months.
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Sanders told advocates on Monday that some of the military assistance to Israel should instead be allocated to the Gaza Strip in the form of humanitarian aid.
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The Minsk accords, coupled with Western threats of far more draconian sanctions and stepped-up military assistance to NATO allies, may well have stifled Russia's imperial ambitions.
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France, which has oil assets in eastern Libya, has provided military assistance in past years to Khalifa Haftar in his eastern stronghold, Libyan and French officials say. .
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It has received more than $1.5 billion in U.S. military assistance since then and, in the last seven years, training and support from U.S. special forces too.
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He said military assistance has been implemented after the sighting but he would not give any further details as it could undermine the effectiveness of the measures.
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The Trump administration is ending one of the most important elements of U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led war in Yemen: the refueling of Saudi warplanes.
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That revolt was put down with military assistance from neighboring Saudi Arabia, which fears that Shi'ite arch-rival Iran is spreading its influence in the Arab world.
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The Syrian regime, with massive Russian military assistance, is just miles away, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad once stated his desire to reclaim all of Syria.
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The four countries absent from the waiver announcement – Iran, Burma/Myanmar, Sudan, and Syria – do not receive U.S. military assistance, irrespective of their use of child soldiers.
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New details on military assistance The release of the transcripts Tuesday provided seemingly explosive details about the Trump administration's machinations with respect to security assistance to Ukraine.
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In one conversation he undermined our national security by withholding military assistance to a country that had been voted on by the Congress of the United States.
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Critics of the American involvement argue that the White House should not be giving any military assistance at all to what they call a reckless, incoherent war.
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America's military assistance is delivered by way of formal commitments to the African Union's peacekeeping missions; most of its humanitarian aid comes in packages approved by Congress.
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Given its historical role in unified Sudan and its location, Sudan would be an invaluable source of diplomatic and military assistance for any group with a grievance.
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"It's a solution in search of a problem," Tennessee-based attorney Martin Lester, who chairs the military assistance program for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told Reuters.
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The operation appears to contradict Pentagon statements that U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen is limited to aircraft refueling, logistics and intelligence sharing.
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Relations between India and the US worsened in the 1960s as India grew closer to the Soviet Union, which was giving New Delhi economic and military assistance.
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They appear to contradict Pentagon statements that American military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen is limited to aircraft refueling, logistics and general intelligence sharing.
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African citizens and their governments are looking beyond what partners have traditionally offered in the form of foreign aid, military assistance, or commodity-based investment (and extraction).
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Volker told lawmakers that he didn't know about any "quid pro quo" linking US military assistance to the announcement of Ukrainian investigations into Biden and the Democrats.
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The fact that he froze a $400m package of military assistance to Ukraine only a week before the call has given some to doubt that last defence.
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The inside story of President Trump's demand to halt military assistance to an ally shows the price he was willing to pay to carry out his agenda.
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And it came at the same time Trump repeatedly postponed a White House visit for Zelensky and froze nearly $400 million in critical military assistance to Kyiv.
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Impeachment and Quid Pro Quo: Given the facts, there is zero doubt that Trump withheld crucial military assistance to an ally at war for personal political gain.
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He says there are voices in Venezuela calling for American military assistance, but he cautions those aren't the only voices the administration needs to be listening to.
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But the leaders agreed it did not make Ukraine a candidate for EU membership, and did not entitle Kiev to financial aid or military assistance from the bloc.
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Pakistan has given assistance and a haven to the Afghan Taliban as a hedge against India, while India has supported and provided military assistance to the Afghan government.
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While Democrats continue looking for evidence about a potential quid pro quo regarding US military assistance to Ukraine, they've already come a long way on the Yovanovitch incident.
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Trump faces allegations that he withheld U.S. military assistance for Ukraine to place pressure on Kiev to investigate his potential Democratic rival in next year's U.S. presidential election.
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U.S. officials are not taking full advantage of the presence of Japan, a U.S. ally that could provide economic help, strategic position, diplomatic support, and even military assistance.
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Goodale told reporters that the provincial government had made two requests of the federal for military assistance to fight the fires, which he said were expected to worsen.
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And the Trump administration is trying to contain the furor by limiting some elements of U.S. military assistance but maintaining weapons sales and allowing the war to continue.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) questioned Taylor on the possible impact of delayed or withdrawn U.S. military assistance to Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Trump of bribery for withholding vital military assistance from Ukraine at the same time he was seeking an investigation of his political rivals.
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Democrats are trying to determine whether Trump abused his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his Democratic political enemies in exchange for millions worth of vital military assistance.
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"The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections," she told reporters in the Capitol.
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For example, the United States has legislation to prohibit the transfer of military assistance and U.S. weapons to countries that use or support the use of child soldiers.
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A U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State supports the SDF with air strikes and other military assistance in its fight to oust the hardline jihadist group from Syria.
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Despite international condemnation of Israel's killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza, the United States has not held Israel accountable for this misuse of American military assistance.
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In addition to their military assistance, we look forward to their robust diplomatic support to help ensure the success of the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process.
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Mr. Pence should make clear to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt's president, that the two countries need a reset, beginning with a major reduction in American military assistance.
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Mulvaney himself admitted at a press conference in October that Trump conditioned military assistance to Ukraine on the announcement of the 2016 investigation, before later walking it back.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has since authorized the release of a further $1.2 billion in US military assistance to Egypt, a US State Department spokesperson said.
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McCain would have known the obvious: Trump endangered national security by withholding much-needed military assistance to try to force a foreign country to smear a political opponent.
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Even some top Republicans concede that Trump ordered a freeze of US military assistance for Ukraine and withheld those funds to extract political favors from the Ukrainian government.
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They described a quid pro quo demanded of Ukraine's President and senior officials in return for meetings at the White House and the release of the military assistance.
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House Democrats, investigating whether Trump conditioned military assistance for the country on an investigation of his political rival, hit Perry with a subpoena for documents earlier this month.
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It was also Mr. Kushner who intervened on measures targeting Saudi Arabia that would have prohibited arms sales or military assistance to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.
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Cooper previously told lawmakers the Pentagon certified that Ukraine was doing enough to combat corruption that it was eligible to receive millions of dollars in US military assistance.
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The summary shows that OMB first inquired with the Pentagon about a $250 million pot of military assistance, known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, on June 19.
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They formed the bulk of of the Free World Military Assistance Forces, an unlikely grouping of troops from South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Spain and Taiwan.
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What's more, Trump made the ask of Zelensky right after the two discussed much-needed US military assistance to Ukraine — which he had conveniently suspended before the call.
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The Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, told reporters in New York that an email made public on Saturday about military assistance to Kiev underscored the need for witnesses.
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"They're counting on the U.S. to continue to support them in all kinds of ways — sanctions, diplomacy, military assistance, training and advising, putting pressure on Putin," she said.
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Taylor testified that Sondland told the Ukrainian official that critical military assistance to the eastern European country would be withheld unless Zelensky "committed to pursuing" a Biden investigation.
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Trouble ahead for Volker as it becomes public from POLITICO reporting that Trump ordered his national security team to put a hold on military assistance aid to Ukraine.
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The House measure says that American military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition counts as a deployment into unauthorized hostilities under the War Powers Act and must end.
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These investigations are in response to reports that the Trump administration "delayed a package of military assistance to the new government in Ukraine," as reported by the NYT.
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" He added that any country providing economic or military assistance to Pyongyang or failing to fully implement U.N. Security Council resolutions, was "aiding and abetting a dangerous regime.
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Though the US briefly suspended military assistance in 2013, for the past five years Egypt has been the second-largest recipient of US military aid next to Israeli.
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For example, this is playing out in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia — with US military assistance — is currently engaged in a brutal air war against Iranian-backed Houthi fighters.
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Saudi Arabia, with American military assistance, is also engaged in a brutal air war against Iranian-backed Houthi fighters inside Yemen that has sparked a massive humanitarian crisis.
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Some members of Congress also have raised concerns the US's role in providing military assistance could leave US service members open to allegations they were complicit in war crimes.
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America cut off military assistance to Pakistan, on the ground that it was not doing enough to prevent militants based in the country from mounting attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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U.S. military assistance to partners and allies reached $13.5 billion in 2015, or 28 percent of all U.S. foreign aid spending that year, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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Typically it would include Puerto Rico still receiving military assistance and funding but the ballot says the terms would be agreed upon by the two countries as sovereign nations.
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Despite the incentives to maintain these relations, the 21989s saw a breakdown between the two countries, with Washington cutting off economic and military assistance and freezing Panamanian government assets.
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But Washington's two policies have openly collided in Ukraine, because of the alleged misuse of military assistance that was already pledged to Kyiv, the catalyst for the impeachment probe.
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For example, as the Philippines's only treaty ally, the US has legal mechanisms such as the EDCA to provide direct military assistance to the country, reported the Asia Times.
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He said that during his meetings, with the Ecuadorean minister of health and the acting minister of foreign affairs, there was no mention of trade sanctions or military assistance.
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There have been reports that the Russians have met with Syrian Kurdish fighters — the backbone of the American-supported militia battling the Islamic State — with offers of military assistance.
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Seven Republican senators joined Democrats in March to vote to end American military assistance to Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen in a rare invocation of the War Powers Act.
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They died during Operation Condor, a campaign of political terrorism carried out by right-wing dictatorships in South America with the technical and military assistance of the United States.
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For example, Trump's lawyers back up the president's interest in pursuing a potential Biden investigation by arguing that Trump had legitimate reasons for temporarily delaying military assistance to Ukraine.
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Additional details about the withholding of military assistance to Ukraine over the summer became public Tuesday due to the release of transcripts from witnesses in the House impeachment investigation.
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Last month, Mulvaney acknowledged that the outlines of a quid pro quo with Ukraine involving the military assistance and Trump's desired investigations, but he later walked back those remarks.
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In effect, Trump apparently tried to use American diplomatic might and the leverage of military assistance to get Ukraine to exonerate Manafort for 2016 and smear Biden for 2020.
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The memo detailed military assistance and was intended to keep the United States out of offensive operations against the Houthis, focusing instead on helping the Saudis secure their border.
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That military assistance was unlawfully withheld in contravention of the president's constitutional obligation to "faithfully execute" the law as Congress enacts it, the United States Government Accountability Office found.
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Exhibit C is Trump withholding military assistance to Ukraine, while Ukraine was under attack from Russia, in a transparent attempt to blackmail, bribe or extort Ukraine into attacking Biden.
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WASHINGTON — The White House delayed a package of military assistance to the new government in Ukraine, and has yet to schedule a White House meeting for its new president.
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WASHINGTON — The White House delayed a package of military assistance to the new government in Ukraine, and has yet to schedule a White House meeting for its new president.
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If the President has been willing to withhold foreign military assistance to secure campaign help, how could Americans trust him when he launched a military strike against another country?
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It said the president froze vital military assistance to Ukraine and blocked a meeting with the country's president, then used both as leverage to secure the investigations he wanted.
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Volker also said that the Ukrainians didn't know about the holdup of military assistance until after the Trump administration stopped pressing them to announce an investigation into the Bidens.
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At the same time, the United States is a major source of humanitarian aid, military assistance and influence on the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional government.
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Mark Sandy, an official at the Office of Management and Budget, testified that two of his colleagues quit after expressing concerns about President Trump's decision to withhold military assistance.
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The measures would impose sanctions on individuals and foreign governments that provide financial, recruitment or military assistance to Hezbollah, as well as those that use civilians as human shields.
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The Russian government has dispatched troops to Venezuela several times already this year to service military equipment, despite the U.S. government repeatedly warning Putin against sending Maduro military assistance.
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House investigators are also looking into the decision earlier this year to temporarily withhold critical military assistance to Ukraine,and whether it was used as leverage to pressure Zelensky.
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He pledged, without giving details, that China would set up a peace and security fund and a related forum, while continuing to provide free military assistance to the African Union.
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Last August, amid concerns over Egyptian cooperation with North Korea and Sisi's crackdown against civil society, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson froze $22013 million in military assistance to Cairo.
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This means that any deviation from the $1.3 billion in annual military assistance the United States has provided Egypt since 1987 entails an unnecessary and unacceptable risk to U.S. interests.
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Oh, and for good measure, what if we eliminate funding for US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts, saving about $650 billion?
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They are eager to solidify bilateral relations, in the case of the Saudis, for more US support in Yemen, and in the case of Egypt, to secure more military assistance.
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But the fact that the $400 million in aid, including desperately needed military assistance, was also being used by the President didn't become clear until the next month, Vindman testified.
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But while U.S. officials say they are "looking at options," there are no current plans to provide military assistance like the U.S. did for the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
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The GOP bill would ban US military assistance to Turkey and place a similar crackdown on any person or group that gives "financial, material or technological support" to Turkey's military.
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The House just passed a bill to cut off military assistance to the Saudis in that war — and the White House has threatened a veto if it passes the Senate.
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At the same time, however, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this week that the Kremlin wasn't engaged in discussions to extend major financial or military assistance to the Maduro regime.
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The Senate measure, which could be debated as early as next week, invokes the 1973 War Powers Act, arguing that Congress never authorized American military assistance for the Saudi coalition.
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On Monday, the House passed a mostly symbolic resolution "explicitly stating that U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen is not authorized under legislation," per Politico.
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There now are top level officials — including Trump appointees — who say he demanded a quid pro quo with the Ukrainians: no military assistance unless they sought to smear Joe Biden.
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"The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections," Ms. Pelosi said, clarifying her choice of words.
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The strike "so clearly symbolized much of what was wrong" with U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia, Robert Malley, a special assistant to the President at the time, told me.
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Sondland said his memory was "refreshed" by other witnesses who recalled him telling a Ukrainian official in early September that vital military assistance would not flow unless Ukraine announced investigations.
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Cornyn, an adviser to the Senate GOP leadership team, argued Tuesday that Trump's effort to use military assistance as leverage to push Ukrainian officials to investigate corruption was not improper.
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Graham, a loyal Trump ally, acknowledged it would be a significant problem if Trump demanded a quid pro quo specifically linking military assistance to an investigation of a political opponent.
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President Obama promised additional aid and called the deal the "largest single pledge of military assistance in U.S. history," in part to assuage Israeli concerns over the Iran nuclear deal.
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It is expected that the military assistance would almost entirely involve laying additional concertina wire as it has done in the past during the early weeks of the military deployment.
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Flashback: In February, the Trump administration said it would cut or suspend "several Treasury, USAID, and American military assistance programs" in Cambodia, citing "deep concern" over "recent setbacks to democracy. "
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Regardless, if one of the stops on the trip includes a visit to US military personnel stationed in a war zone like Afghanistan, the speaker can't go without military assistance.
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Last week, the Senate voted to end American military assistance for the Saudi-led war, in a symbolic yet stinging rebuke to President Trump, who has stood by Saudi Arabia.
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The Pentagon has already recommended to the White House that the hold on military assistance to Ukraine be lifted, an administration official and a US defense official told CNN Thursday.
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It would also give military assistance, in the form of training and weapons, to like-minded countries that take primary responsibility for their defense, further reducing the burden on Washington.
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Mac Thornberry, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, reached out to an OMB official on August 22 asking about the holdup in US military assistance for Ukraine.
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But Sondland also acknowledged that he never heard from Trump directly to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine — something the president's defenders are already highlighting.
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Posted to Vietnam as an Army radio specialist, I celebrated my 20th birthday in Saigon in January 1963, a very drunk soldier in the United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam.
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A week before his conversation with Mr Zelensky, Mr Trump had frozen $400m in military assistance to Ukraine, suggesting that he had adjusted foreign policy for his own political benefit.
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Trump has said publicly that he ordered a hold on the $391 million in military assistance because he was concerned about corruption and European countries not contributing enough to Ukraine.
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"Keeping in mind that Europe is less interested in providing military support to Libya, the obvious choice is to work with Turkey, which has already promised military assistance," Erdogan wrote.
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Despite Waldhauser's apparent confirmation, Cameroon's ambassador to the US issued a statement Friday denying that US cuts to military assistance to his country were linked to alleged human rights abuses.
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By the time Sandy was given the explanation, however, the Trump White House already knew about the Ukraine whistleblower and public news reports had revealed the freeze in military assistance.
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During the early post-Cold War period, North Korea, Iraq, Libya and Syria functioned as genuine rogue states, with no military assistance or diplomatic cover from a defunct Soviet Union.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that the conditions in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through next year, even with a modest increase in military assistance from America and its allies.
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The "great support in the area of defense" included nearly $400 million of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, which one witness said was nearly 10 percent of Ukraine's defense budget.
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The current government, so well-represented at the ceremony, is clamoring for more U.S. military assistance and a tougher Western stance in its current predicament against Russia in Eastern Ukraine.
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Now it seems like he wasn't just requesting Zelensky investigate Biden; it looks like he was unsubtly trying to strong-arm him into doing it by leveraging US military assistance.
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Other regional issues, including the fight against Islamic State, U.S. military assistance to Israel - "an excellent investment" - and the Iran nuclear deal, which both parties have criticized, were also discussed.
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Still, they concede that Sondland's decision to revise his testimony to say he told a Ukrainian aide that military assistance was tied to an investigation of Burisma could be problematic.
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The two amendments add language that reaffirms the U.S. commitment to its military assistance package to Israel, which provides about $22019 billion in military financing and missile defense each year.
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The US, on the other hand, supports Syria's main opposition group, the National Coalition, and provides military assistance to rebels and Syrian Kurds fighting the Islamic State and Assad's regime.
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China has stepped up "direct military assistance to Afghanistan", including providing small arms and logistics and equipment support, since the two countries established a military dialogue in 2016, the ambassador said.
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Officials of the U.S. administration have said the removal of sanctions would not apply to military-to-military assistance, given the extent of the military's involvement in politics and rights abuses.
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"I understood a 'stalemate' to mean that Ukraine would not receive the much-needed military assistance," Taylor added regarding U.S. efforts he described to pressure Zelensky to agree to such investigations.
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Taylor testified that he was "alarmed" to learn from Morrison that the Trump administration "conditioned" not only a Trump-Zelensky White House meeting but also the military assistance on the investigations.
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" Referring to the U.S. as "our main ally," Maiteeg told Axios in Washington on Friday that the GNA is not seeking financial or military assistance, only "strong diplomatic help and leadership.
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Trump quickly backtracked, saying that Israel, which is locked in sensitive negotiations with the Obama administration over a new multi-billion-dollar 10-year military assistance package, "can help us greatly".
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They said U.S. military assistance to Honduran security forces had fueled impunity and human rights abuses, including the targeted killing of land activists, in the Central American country of 8 million.
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Trump had threatened during the campaign to dramatically cut U.S. military assistance to Japan—and even force it to develop its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent to North Korean aggression.
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Zelensky still hesitated; over the next month, Trump tied his demands to the release of nearly four hundred million dollars in military assistance that is essential to Ukraine's defense against Russia.
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But the PMF's fight against ISIS has called for a tenuous quasi-alliance with American forces providing military assistance to the Iraqi army and other enemies of the notorious terrorist group.
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That success seemed to leave open the possibility that the United States would provide more direct military assistance to the Emiratis in an ambitious campaign against Al Qaeda, a mutual foe.
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The party is against all forms of foreign aid and military assistance, and a direct attack on the United States is the only instance in which Libertarians favor a military response.
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Presidents promise allies that they'd never abandon them, and provide them tangible goods — like US troop deployments to their country, military assistance, or even trade agreements — to demonstrate America's continuing commitment.
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The Senate voted 2150 to 41 to end American military assistance for Saudi forces in Yemen, where a nearly four-year war has killed thousands of civilians and brought widespread famine.
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Congress had appropriated $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine — $250 million from the Pentagon and $141 million from the State Department — meant to be spent by the end of September.
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The fourth includes formal defense pacts centered on mutual defense pledges that promise more or less unconditional military assistance with combat forces in the event that either finds itself at war.
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The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under a landmark agreement signed on Sept. 15.
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KYIV — At the heart of the impeachment saga that ended on Wednesday in Donald Trump's acquittal was $391 million in US military assistance for Ukraine that the president ordered be withheld.
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Trump requested the investigation during a July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian leader that came while Trump was withholding military assistance for the country that had been approved by Congress.
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Trump does not explicitly mention a quid pro quo with Zelensky in the White House memo, though he does segue from a discussion of military assistance to the potential Biden probe.
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This summer he froze a package of military assistance to Ukraine even as the country, eager to build closer relations with Washington, continued to be menaced by its aggressive neighbor Russia.
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Mark Sandy, an official at the Office of Management and Budget, testified that two of his colleagues quit after expressing concerns about Mr. Trump's decision to withhold military assistance to Ukraine.
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Omar said the inclusion of language committing $38 billion in American military assistance to Israel hurt U.S. efforts to bring peace to the region, a position increasingly gaining momentum among progressives.
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Ambassador Henri Etoundi Essomba said the cuts to military assistance were the result of the recent Trump administration announcement that it would reduce the number of US counterterrorism troops in Africa.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday called for military assistance in securing the southern border and combating drug trafficking.
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Earlier this month, the US Defense Department Inspector General's Office declined a request from congressional Democrats to open an investigation into why the Trump administration delayed the military assistance to Ukraine.
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That discussion has become central to the question of whether US military assistance to Kyiv was conditioned upon Ukraine opening investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden's family and other Democrats.
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And in a recent interview with Time Magazine, Zelensky subtly rebuked Trump's decision to withhold military assistance while Ukraine, a key U.S. ally, is at war with Russia, a U.S. adversary.
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Three, President Trump had placed a hold on vital military assistance to Ukraine without any explanation and notwithstanding uniform support for that assistance from the relevant Federal agencies and Congress. 22019.
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Two White House budget officials resigned in part out of frustration with President Donald Trump's order to freeze U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, a senior budget official told House impeachment investigators.
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Mr. Trump has proposed deep cuts in the State Department budget, and while officials have said military assistance to Israel will remain untouched, reductions in aid to Egypt are under consideration.
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Ukrainian officials also understood throughout the course of Trump's pressure campaign that military assistance and, more broadly, a strong relationship with the president, was based on acceding to his political demands.
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McCain would be outraged that while Russia continued to attack Ukraine, Trump, over the objection of many senior advisers, withheld American military assistance to Ukraine at any time, for any purpose.
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They were galvanized only after the leadership convinced them that Mr. Trump's withholding military assistance to Ukraine while it was fighting off a Russian invasion was a matter of national security.
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"By lifting the U.S. Arms Embargo on Cyprus and extending necessary Foreign Military Assistance to Greece, this legislation brings forth a comprehensive approach to the stability of key regional partners," Sen.
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The timing of that move, which was criticized for being done without a good explanation, has bred speculation that Trump may have used the military assistance as leverage to pressure Zelensky.
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President Trump, his weariness with the war long public, had never seemed committed to the new strategy he had announced a year earlier, which promised the Afghan government greater military assistance.
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Speaking ahead of a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Warsaw, Pence did not address reports that Trump is considering cutting $250 million in military assistance to the country.
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U.S. intelligence agencies assessed in May that the conditions in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through next year, even with a modest increase in military assistance from America and its allies.
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US military assistance to Israel dwarfs that of any other recipient, with the US providing some $24 billion to Israel during the last eight years, according to National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
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Moscow in particular has systematically undermined democratic institutions throughout Latin America for decades -- a role made blatantly clear from the financial and military assistance it devotes to propping up the Maduro regime.
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Taylor reportedly testified he was "alarmed" that the Trump administration supposedly was withholding military assistance unless Ukraine committed to investigating 85033 election corruption, including alleged wrongdoing by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
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The document prepared by the National Police Co-ordination Centre (NPoCC) and obtained by The Sunday Times includes the "real possibility" of calling on military assistance and preventing officers from taking leave.
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Turkish officials have denounced the US for providing military assistance to this Kurdish faction, even though it has proven to be one of the most successful fighting forces against ISIS in Syria.
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Democrats allege Trump temporarily withheld $391 million in U.S. military assistance to Ukraine as a way to pressure the country into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden — a possible 2020 election challenger.
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During the 2011 armed rebellion against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Washington's Arab partners – with the secret blessing of the Obama administration – delivered military assistance to the rebels trying to oust the regime.
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McCain charged that Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan was ducking questions during his confirmation hearing, particularly over his response in a written statement that he would look into providing military assistance to Ukraine.
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The congressional investigation into possible presidential crimes related to the withholding of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in exchange for political favors is a legitimate process with historic implications to the nation.
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Trump's bullying of Ukraine and suspension of military assistance benefited our strategic rival, Russia, and it came as Ukrainians were dying in the fight for their country's survival after a Russian invasion.
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Reuters reports that a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson warned of "catastrophic" consequences if the Trump administration were to send military assistance to Guaido to aid his bid to oust the socialist president.
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Despite the territorial advances made in recent weeks by Assad's forces, backed by Russian air strikes and military assistance by Iran, Jubeir said he did not believe the Syrian president would survive.
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The year was 2010, and then Defense Secretary Robert Gates pressured his Russian counterpart to rescind military assistance to Tehran, specifically the promised delivery of the advanced S-300 air defense system.
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Ukraine's foreign minister told reporters on Thursday that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland did not link investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son with military assistance.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under a landmark agreement signed on Wednesday.
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Last week, the United States and Israel signed a new $38 billion 10-year security Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the largest military assistance package the U.S. has ever pledged to another country.
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Clad in the panoply of American exceptionalism, Johnson opted for the former and turned to Westmoreland to lead the charge at the head of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam — MACV for short.
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This month, the Senate voted to end American military assistance to the war altogether, a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, but the bill died when the House refused to consider it.
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In light of Egypt's declining strategic importance and its problematic behavior, Washington should sharply reduce its annual military assistance by $500 million to $800 million to align our resources with our priorities.
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Mr. Trump went further than Mr. Obama by providing lethal military assistance to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, but privately echoed Mr. Putin's line about the Ukrainians being untrustworthy and corrupt.
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Trump is accused of having made hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine, meant to combat Russian aggression, contingent upon President Volodymyr Zelensky's announcement of Trump's preferred political probes.
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Without ironclad proof that Trump withheld military assistance to put pressure on the new Ukrainian president for an investigation into Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, Republican senators are unlikely to be swayed.
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Taylor said he expressed "my serious concern about the withholding of military assistance to Ukraine," and Bolton recommended that he send a first-person diplomatic cable to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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Zelensky has said publicly that he did not feel pressured during the call, but Ukrainian officials have said they were aware that political and military assistance depended on their cooperating with GIULIANI.
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During the July 25 conversation, Zelensky brought up US military assistance to Ukraine, which has been at the center of US policy since Russia and its proxies invaded Eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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She also mentioned that Zelensky asked Pence about the holdup of $391 million in US military assistance for Ukraine during their September 1 meeting on the sidelines of an event in Poland.
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A top Pentagon official sent a letter to Congress in May certifying Ukraine was making progress in the fight against corruption justifying the US provide Ukraine with a $250 million military assistance.
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Trump also ordered a controversial and sudden withdrawal of US forces from Syria, and became the subject of impeachment hearings in the House over the delay of military assistance funding to Ukraine.
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Democrats accuse Trump of withholding both a White House meeting with Zelensky and, temporarily, vital military assistance funds while pressuring Ukraine to announce an investigation of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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He is under investigation today for pressuring a democratic ally under attack by Russia by withholding military assistance until the plot was exposed, to spread dirt against a leading opponent in 2020.
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He was careful to attribute statements to Sondland, including when the EU ambassador relayed to him that he'd informed Zelensky's top aide that military assistance was linked to announcements of the investigations.
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The first event that created a Pakistani distrust of the United States was in 22019 during the Indo-Sino border conflict when the Kennedy administration decided to provide India with military assistance.
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"We are prepared to make an unprecedented multi-year missile defense commitment as part of a new memorandum of understanding with Israel on military assistance," the official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
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The proposal calls for stepping up military assistance to support Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in their fight against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who have toppled the central government there.
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"The State of Kuwait refuted news by the Reuters news agency regarding Iran's exploitation of Kuwaiti waters to deliver arms and military assistance to the Houthis in Yemen," a Foreign Ministry statement said.
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There have been reports in recent months that Wagner soldiers are aiding President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, though US officials haven't confirmed this, even as they have condemned Russia for sending military assistance.
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"Some interested buyers, such as The Philippines, are hamstrung by their military assistance pacts with the US," firearms expert Daniel Watters notes in a meticulously researched timeline of the rifle and its cartridge.
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"The U.S. might stop its military assistance, specially training to Sri Lanka," said defense analyst Iqbal Athas, adding that the Indian Ocean island nation could face a similar backlash from the European Union.
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The first sign came in August when the White House announced it was putting aside $255 million in military assistance, which Pakistan could only access if it clamped down on internal terror groups.
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Another came last week when William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to the Ukraine, testified before the House that military assistance to Ukraine was explicitly tied to investigating Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate.
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In the 1990's former U.S. President George H.W. Bush refused to certify that Pakistan did not have nuclear weapons, triggering the so-called "Pressler Amendment" that required cutting off all military assistance.
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The United States, which has allocated more than $68 billion to train and equip the Afghan security forces since 2002, has welcomed greater Indian military assistance to fill shortfalls in hardware and personnel.
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But even more important, they wanted the White House to release its hold on $2276 million in military assistance to help Ukraine fight pro-Russians forces waging a separatist war in eastern Ukraine.
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While Trump has insisted that document shows the call was "perfect," it depicts the president urging his Ukrainian counterpart to "look into" the Bidens after Zelensky brought up the need for military assistance.
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The military assistance, which had been approved by Congress much earlier, was released only after Congress was told about a whistleblower from the intelligence community complaining about Trump's call to the Ukrainian president.
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Russia, which has been supporting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad for the past year with airstrikes and other military assistance, has said it is not responsible for the killing of civilians.
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And according to an internal military report uncovered by VICE News in May, these resulted in significant action: 1,700 commandos in at least 20 African countries provided military assistance to local African troops.
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For instance, Saudi Arabia, with US military assistance, is engaged in a brutal air war against Iranian-backed Houthi fighters inside Yemen that has sparked a massive humanitarian crisis in the impoverished country.
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The big picture: Brazil began deploying 44,000 troops on Saturday to fight fires across the region, amid anti-government protests and global condemnation, with 6 states requesting military assistance, according to Al Jazeera.
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Chewning was named in recent unredacted emails showing Pentagon officials' concern over the legality surrounding the White House's action to withhold military assistance to Ukraine, the focal issue of President Donald Trump's impeachment.
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During a visit to the Pentagon this week, French Defense Minister Florence Parly said she warned Esper that joint counterterrorism efforts in West Africa would be harmed by cuts to U.S. military assistance.
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Bolton's reported account undercuts a key portion of the defense's argument — namely that Trump did not tie the military assistance to investigations into 2016 election interference and the Bidens, as Democrats have argued.
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But most pernicious, President Trump conditioned hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally appropriated, taxpayer-funded military assistance for the same purpose: to apply more pressure on Ukraine's leader to announce the investigations.
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French Defense Minister Florence Parly said she warned her U.S. counterpart during a visit to the Pentagon that joint counterterrorism efforts in West Africa would be harmed by cuts to U.S. military assistance.
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When he was vice president, Mr. Biden cast himself as both the Obama administration's advocate of military assistance to Kiev as well as the chief antagonist of the notorious corruption in Ukraine's government.
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President Donald Trump called the president of Ukraine on July 25 and asked him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, using critical military assistance and a coveted White House meeting as leverage.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran is waiting for Lebanon to show a desire to accept its military assistance, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday, reiterating an offer of support to the U.S.-backed Lebanese military.
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READ: Here's what happens after Trump survives impeachment Schumer also wants documents, including a lengthy list of communications between top Trump officials about how and why vital military assistance to Ukraine was withheld.
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It's all part of the same request, the one that Trump has seemed to link to US military assistance to Ukraine — which he had conveniently suspended just one week prior to the call.
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House Democrats are building a case that President Donald Trump attempted to extort a foreign leader, withholding desperately needed military assistance to Ukraine unless the country's president announced investigations into Trump's political rivals.
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Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) introduced their legislation imposing sanctions against Turkey, which would target Erdogan's personal finances, prohibit military assistance and restrict Turkish officials' visas to the United States, among other measures.
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Democrats are issuing a series of subpoenas and are already obtaining damaging evidence, including text messages suggesting the White House was withholding military assistance until Ukraine launched a probe into Trump's political adversaries.
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During the 1980s, Abrams was a staunch anti-Communist; at the State Department under President Reagan, he gave United States military assistance to Central American leaders who massacred tens of thousands of civilians.
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The articles accuse Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and involve the delay of nearly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine that was approved by the House and Senate.
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But he said in an interview with Time magazine that accusations by the U.S. that Ukraine is corrupt and the delay in delivery of military assistance is against agreements between the two countries.
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Johnson said it remained to be seen whether such military assistance might need the permission of parliament, which in 2013 voted against bombing Assad's forces in Syria to deter them from using chemical weapons.
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And in a central example of how the political wind is shifting in the Philippines, the destruction enabled in part by American military assistance will be repaired by a Chinese-led consortium, officials say.
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He is more hopeful that special forces on the ground can work with local militias, such as the Misratans, who have repeatedly asked for military assistance from America as "co-ordinator, broker and referee".
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The most intense pressure on the Saudis is now likely to come from the U.S. Congress, where both Democrats and Republicans have tried to curtail American military assistance to the Saudis and their allies.
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The Pentagon said Washington has provided Lebanon with more than $1.5 billion in military assistance since 2006, and that U.S. special forces have been providing "training and support" for the Lebanese army since 2011.
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This type of support, combined with continued sanctions against the Kremlin and increased military assistance to the frontlines, could help Ukraine to finally break the stalemate with Russia and build a stable democratic future.
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While the government that removed him with military assistance had declared his birthday as a national holiday, his successor and former deputy Mnangagwa did not mention him in a televised speech on the day.
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So, with that July phone call, Trump made the risky gamble that he could make Zelensky do his dirty work by dangling U.S. military assistance as the carrot to get Zelensky to smear Biden.
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Taylor said it was his "clear understanding" that the administration was holding up military assistance as a means to pressure Ukraniian officials, including Zelenksy, into launching an investigation into Biden and the 2016 election.
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"The Senate voted on Thursday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen," wrote the New York Times in a recent article that never mentioned Iran, thereby missing the entire point.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is not eschewing political or diplomatic ways to settle the conflict in Syria, the Kremlin said on Friday, while making clear it would continue providing military assistance to the Syrian government.
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Over the past 15 years, the United States has invested billions of dollars in strengthening the rule of law in Colombia while establishing respect for human rights as a condition of continued military assistance.
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Carter made clear that details on Turkey's potential role in the unfolding Mosul campaign still needed to be hammered out and a senior U.S. defense official noted non-military assistance was also a possibility.
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This spring, both the House and Senate approved bipartisan legislation to cut off military assistance to Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen using the 1973 War Powers Act, only to see it vetoed in April.
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In a stinging rebuke of the president's defense of Saudi Arabia over the killing of a dissident journalist, the Senate voted last week to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war in Yemen.
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"With respect to other assistance levels, foreign military assistance levels, those are still being evaluated and decisions are going to be made going forward," Toner added, noting that treaty obligations would be a factor.
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Yemen: The U.S. House gave final passage to a resolution to end U.S. military assistance for the war in Yemen, sending the bipartisan rebuke of President Trump to his desk for a promised veto.
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The only real fallout from continued occupation are major increases in American financing of it, with Israel now receiving more military assistance from the United States than the rest of the world does combined.
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Directly after the conversation became known, the White House did release the military assistance for Ukraine that it had withheld, although more likely in response to pressure from Congress than Mr. Zelensky's vague promises.
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Trump's decision to withhold nearly $400 million in US military assistance to Ukraine as he pressed the country to investigate Hunter Biden and Joe Biden are at the center of the President's impeachment trial.
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Whether President Trump sought to condition official acts, such as a White House meeting or U.S. military assistance, on Ukraine's willingness to assist with two political investigations that would help his re-election campaign.
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The State Department told Congress on Thursday that the White House budget office and National Security Council had decided to withhold the foreign military assistance, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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But even in the absence of violent eruptions, Israel would incur significant financial costs — by the most reliable estimate, the equivalent of over four times the generous annual U.S. military assistance to our country.
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Russell Vought, the acting OMB director, and Michael Duffey, OMB's national security chief, were subpoenaed but have refused to appear for depositions or turn over documents related to the decision to withhold military assistance.
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In addition to the weapons sales, the United States has provided $1.5 billion in military assistance to Ukraine between 2014 and June 2019, according to an updated analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
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The U.S. entangled itself in Yemen in 2015, when President Obama signed off on providing military assistance — such as refueling Saudi jets — to Saudi forces fighting Houthi rebels in the impoverished country's civil war.
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Backed by Russian war planes and other military assistance since 2015, Assad has gained momentum on several fronts across the country, driving rebels from numerous pockets and recapturing swathes of the east from Islamic State.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was halting some military assistance to Cameroon over allegations of gross human rights violations by its security forces in the northwest, southwest and far north regions.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made "very strong commitments" on ways to ramp up military assistance to help Nigeria defeat the extremist group Boko Haram, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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That means that over the past six years, the United States has earmarked $85033 million in direct military assistance for a regime that openly coerces children into combat roles, while withholding a paltry $1.2 million.
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But already aides to Mr. Leahy, a sponsor of a human rights law that prohibits the State Department and Pentagon from providing military assistance to foreign militaries with poor human rights records, have expressed concern.
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Mr. Taylor said he "sat in astonishment" as he learned via conference call that the White House Office of Management and Budget had put a hold on nearly $400 million in military assistance for Ukraine.
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Shortly before speaking to Zelensky, Trump withheld around $400 million in US military assistance to Ukraine — raising questions among Democrats about whether the president was breaching his authority by using foreign policy for personal gain.
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Sondland now claims he briefed Pence about concerns that the hold-up in military assistance might be linked to investigations when Pence traveled to Poland to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in early September.
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According to his opening statement, Sondland will say that there was a quid pro quo between Ukraine conducting politically motivated investigations and getting U.S. military assistance, adding that many in the Trump administration knew it.
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"As we've said for some time, the United States supports the GNA [Government of National Accord, and] we would be prepared to carefully consider any request for military assistance," said Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook.
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Lebanon's military has received hundreds of millions in military assistance from the United States and Britain in recent years, as part of efforts to bolster Lebanon against a threat from militants across the Syrian border.
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Related: Islamic State Said to Gruesomely Execute Dozens in Witch Hunt for Drone Strike Spies FSA rebels fighting Islamic State north of Aleppo have received military assistance from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
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"Kim Jong Un does not want to end up like Qaddafi, overthrown with Western military assistance after giving up his nuclear weapons program," Kelsey Davenport, a nuclear expert at the Arms Control Association, told me.
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Here's the latest: The Senate voted to withdraw American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's forces in Yemen, in a bipartisan rebuke of President Trump's continued loyalty to the kingdom and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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But it does seem to shed light on the origins of Mr. Trump's interest in the issue, and to foreshadow his administration's withholding of military assistance from the country as part of the pressure campaign.
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Bolton&aposs book could undermine one of the key defenses from Trump and his legal team: that there was no quid pro quo, or no explicit link between the military assistance and request for investigations.
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The Times' investigation shed new light on the extent to which President Donald Trump sought to freeze military assistance to Ukraine, despite pleas from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Bolton.
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When Trump blocked military assistance to Ukraine over the summer as part of his effort to extract a corruption-investigation announcement involving the son of Democratic rival Joe Biden, Haspel argued for lifting the hold.
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"That phone call very clearly indicates an effort to not only pressure but in effect extort the president of Ukraine over much necessary military assistance that had already been passed by the Congress," Clinton said.
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The texts also show a panicky top aide to Zelenskiy reaching out to Volker after the president unexpectedly halted roughly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine, as he increased pressure on Zelenskiy to investigate.
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In his letter to Linick, Menendez requests that the Inspector General "immediately open an investigation" into the Trump administration's withholding of foreign military assistance to Ukraine and whether it was tied to the whistleblower complaint.
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The 300-page document slams Trump for withholding a presidential meeting in the White House and vital military assistance to Ukraine while pressing the country to publicly announce investigations intended to help Trump win reelection.
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In order to increase the pressure on Ukraine to announce the politically-motivated investigations that President Trump wanted, he withheld a coveted Oval Office meeting and $391 million of essential military assistance from Ukraine. 3.
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Sondland left Vindman's boss Tim Morrison with a "sinking feeling" after suggesting that Trump appeared to want to condition $400 million in military assistance on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's willingness to personally announce those probes.
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Alexander Vindman, an Army officer who serves as the Ukraine director on the National Security Council, testified that he understood the summit and military assistance aid to be contingent on Zelensky committing to those probes.
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Delegates crafting the GOP platform in Cleveland did not include language calling for military assistance in Ukraine, which has been caught in a prolonged skirmish with pro-Russian separatists on and inside its eastern border. 8.
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The current U.S. troops are trying to connect with political and security officials in Libya to get more information so if a national government is formed, the U.S. will be ready to provide additional military assistance.
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Wednesday Senior Pentagon official Kathryn Wheelbarger A US defense official told CNN that investigators wanted to hear from Wheelbarger about the temporary pause of US military assistance to Ukraine, which was partially handled by the Pentagon.
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Significant boost in funding The US has made Israel its largest recipient of military assistance for decades, part of its commitment to help its closest Mideast ally maintain a qualitative military advantage in a hostile region.
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If the United States wishes to build relations with the emerging youthful societies around the globe, it needs to make investments that connect it with civil societies rather than relying on military assistance or kinetic operations.
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According to South Korea's Defense White Paper, out of about 932 billion won South Korea contributed in 2015, personnel costs were about 37%, construction costs were bout 45%, and the rest was for military assistance expenses.
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Yesterday however the mask slipped during the hearings when former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor testified before Congress that he was "alarmed" that Trump would make the extraordinary step of trying to leverage military assistance.
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Saturday pledged greater military assistance to the former French colony of Burkina Faso and other countries in the Sahel region in the face of a growing Islamist insurgency.
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Washington (CNN)Members of Congress have been informally notified of the Defense Department's plans to provide $125 million in new military assistance to Ukraine, including armed patrol boats, according to a congressional aide and US official.
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Egypt is another case: The US has given Egypt billions of dollars in military assistance since 1979, avowedly for the purposes of maintaining Israeli-Egyptian peace, which Egypt manifestly has no interest or intention in breaking.
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President Trump was wrong in asserting that his decision last year to suspend military assistance to Ukraine — a key component in his impeachment and upcoming trial — did not interfere with the schedule for delivering the aid.
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"It does continue to include military assistance to Ukraine and encouragement that the administration provide lethal assistance so the Ukrainian can defense themselves against the aggression that is coming at them from the east," Thornberry said.
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Witnesses described Kupperman as a central witness to events surrounding allegations that Trump pressured Ukraine's government to investigate his Democratic rivals, allegedly by withholding military assistance and a White House visit from Ukraine's newly elected president.
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Mr. Sisi has resisted loud appeals to release Aya Hijazi, an American aid worker imprisoned in Egypt, while Mr. Trump's White House is considering slashing foreign aid to countries including Egypt's $1.3 billion in military assistance.
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Previously unseen Trump administration emails obtained by news outlets and transparency groups exposed the administration's scramble to withhold nearly $400 million in US military assistance from Ukraine, and further pinpoint Trump's role in ordering the freeze.
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One witness after another has testified that the Trump administration tried to use a White House invitation and US military assistance as leverage to pressure the new Ukrainian government into announcing investigations into Trump's political rivals.
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Two staffers for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) resigned after expressing frustrations about a hold on military assistance to Ukraine that is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry, a witness has testified.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said it would be counter-productive for the United States to sanction Pakistani officials or further cut military assistance, warning it would hurt both countries' fight against militancy.
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Yet just a few weeks before his July 25 telephone call, President Trump had inexplicably placed a hold on military assistance to Ukraine without providing any reason to his own cabinet members or national security officials.
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He stated that he told an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that military assistance would not be released until Zelensky issued a statement agreeing to investigate Burisma, a gas company with ties to Biden's son.
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Republicans argue in the report that Democrats have not unearthed evidence that Trump committed bribery or extortion when he withheld a White House meeting from Zelensky in addition to military assistance to defend against Russian aggression.
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Trump is accused of abusing his power and obstructing Congress after trying to use U.S. military assistance and the authority of his office as leverage to get Ukraine to dig up dirt about Biden, a political rival.
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The United States this week said it was suspending or curtailing several treasury, USAID and military assistance programs that support Cambodia's military, taxation department and local authorities - all of which, it said, shared blame for recent instability.
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Administration officials say that it's easier to win congressional support for military assistance to fight extremist groups - especially if defense contracts are involved - than it is to muster backing for steps to attack radicalism at its roots.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House aide's suggestion that President Donald Trump sought a political favor from Ukraine in exchange for military assistance has upended the administration's impeachment strategy and left his Republican allies flummoxed and frustrated.
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The intelligence and military assistance offered by Iran and its Afghan allies in the Northern Alliance – a military front that also enjoyed the backing of Russia and India at the time – was indispensable to the U.S. mission.
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From my foreign policy role in the Senate, I want to call attention to the Republican Party's apparently new position that the United States should not provide military assistance to Ukraine, as alluded to in its platform.
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U.S. officials have repeatedly stated that they are unwilling to sanction South Sudan's military assistance because of the importance of supporting this fledgling democracy and the need to maintain U.S. influence and involvement in the country's development.
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Focusing on the argument between Mr. Thompson and Lieutenant Calley, General Young and General Koster skirted directives from the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam that accusations of war crimes be forwarded to the staff judge advocate in Saigon.
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Mr. Zamili and other military officials cautioned that Iraq must devote significant intelligence resources to find and track down these extremists, and that continued military assistance from the American-led coalition was vital to this continuing mission.
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Russia chose to foster this process because it realized that Mr. Assad, weakened by years of fighting, cannot win a battlefield victory or hope to survive without continuing military assistance, much less govern a country he destroyed.
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This follows a previous New York Times report that detailed the haggling by executive branch officials over the legal consequences of the president's decision to hold back $391 million worth of military assistance for the Ukrainian military.
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Yet a number of Egypt watchers believe the path to peace runs through Egypt, and the U.S. should do more to strengthen the country in the face of global terror, including the provision of more military assistance.
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This year, the State Department's least defensible decisions involved excluding Myanmar, Iraq and Afghanistan from an auxiliary list of countries banned under a special law from certain American military assistance because their armed forces recruited child soldiers.
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With America handing the Philippines an average of nearly $40 million a year in military assistance between 2002 and 2012, local security forces have had a stake in not finishing off Abu Sayyaf or other radical groups.
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And the lead White House Ukraine expert, a decorated Iraq veteran, has now testified that military assistance was delayed in an attempt to force Ukraine to become an involuntary arm of the struggling Trump re-election campaign.
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Mr. Ghani was faced with the spectacle of shadowy government operatives rounding up two human rights activists without charge in a nominally democratic country supported by billions of dollars in American and Western aid and military assistance.
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"In pressuring President Zelensky to carry out his demand, President Trump withheld a White House meeting desperately sought by the Ukrainian President, and critical U.S. military assistance to fight Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine," the report says.
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Zelensky says Ukraine is ready to buy more Javelins, and was not aware at this point that Trump had ordered $250 million worth of military assistance aid to be withheld from Ukraine just days before this call.
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The saga began on July 18, when OMB revealed to senior administration officials that Trump, through Mulvaney and Vought's office, had frozen a package of congressionally mandated military assistance to Ukraine intended to fend off Russian aggression.
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Atkinson's testimony came the day after a former top envoy to Ukraine provided lawmakers with damning text messages suggesting that the White House was withholding critical military assistance unless Ukraine's president launched investigations targeting Trump's political adversaries.
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Also on Capitol Hill, the House voted to end U.S. military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, a move to curtail presidential war powers that, if it passes the Senate, may invite Mr. Trump's first veto.
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"Kim Jong Un does not want to end up like Qaddafi, overthrown with Western military assistance after giving up his nuclear weapons program," Kelsey Davenport, a nuclear expert at the Arms Control Association, told me last week.
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Apart from military assistance, Syria is increasingly indebted to Iran financially: Tehran opened a $3.5 billion credit line in 2013, and extended it by $1 billion in 2015, which economists say has helped keep the Syrian economy afloat.
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According to sources who spoke to Reuters, the two countries recently came to a final agreement on a new military assistance pact that will see the US give Israel at least $3.8 billion a year for a decade.
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As President Donald Trump set off on his first official visit to Asia, including regional summits to be attended by Myanmar, both the House and Senate introduced legislation to prohibit U.S. military assistance to the Southeast Asian nation.
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Back in January, Trump accused Pakistan of rewarding past U.S. military assistance with "nothing but lies and deceit" by continuing to grant safe haven and support to Taliban insurgents waging an unrelenting war against American forces in Afghanistan.
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The White House said on Tuesday it was suspending or curtailing several Treasury, USAID and military assistance programs that support Cambodia's military, taxation department and local authorities - all of which, it said, shared blame for recent political instability.
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Although the United States has condemned the strike and promised to review U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition battling in Yemen, the U.S. military has been closely associated with the campaign in the eyes of Yemenis.
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After the Khashoggi killing, seven U.S. senators wrote to Pompeo, questioning his decision to certify that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were doing enough to prevent civilian casualties and proposing restrictions on military assistance and upcoming arms deals.
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Ukraine deserves continued political, economic and military support, including the possibility of lethal military assistance should Russia and its separatist proxies continue their aggression in Eastern Ukraine — a conflict that has claimed the lives of 85033,000 Ukrainian citizens.
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Pentagon and CIA leaders are concerned the Russians will repeat their actions and are pushing for alternative ways to counter their influence in Syria, including increasing military assistance to rebel forces there, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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What's particularly egregious about this year's decision is that President Trump has in effect waived all of the CSPA's prohibitions, allowing all relevant military assistance to remain accessible to the seven countries currently budgeted to receive such assistance.
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It's unlikely, however, that either chamber could find the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto, as was the case last month when the Senate failed to override Trump's veto of increased military assistance to Yemen.
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Sondland also said that no one else told him to explicitly connect military assistance to Ukraine to the announcement of investigations against Democrats — that he made that connection himself before presenting it to a Ukrainian official in September.
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On one side of the internal debate, some White House and State Department aides say it would be premature to completely end restrictions on lethal military assistance before Vietnam's communist government has made more progress on human rights.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen in the strongest show of bipartisan defiance against President Trump's defense of the kingdom over the killing of a dissident journalist.
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A bipartisan proposal in the United States Senate would do that, by imposing targeted sanctions and visa bans against senior Burmese military officials and banning American military assistance to Myanmar until there is "significant progress" on human rights.
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Congressional aides and administration officials who work on Ukraine issues had become concerned that the White House was slow-walking a military assistance package for Kiev, according to people involved in an effort to free up the assistance.
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One continuing source of anxiety in Kyiv is the military assistance aid Trump allegedly held up in an effort to pressure Zelenksy -- aid that was renewed when Taylor and lawmakers from both parties raised alarms inside the administration.
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The U.S. Northern Command, based in Colorado, is responsible for providing military support to civil authorities like DHS and HHS, as it would be during a natural disaster, terrorist attack or any other domestic incident requiring military assistance.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats issued subpoenas to the Pentagon and the White House budget office on Monday as part of their impeachment inquiry, seeking documents related to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withhold military assistance from Ukraine.
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President Obama suspended military assistance after the coup and ensuing violence that brought President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power in July 2013, including the killing of hundreds of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi in August 2013.
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It seems probable that Sisi will now be forced to revisit the law and fulfill other, unspecified human rights obligations, if Egypt is to receive the $195 million of military assistance that Tillerson now has under his control.
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" According to Schiff, Trump "conditioned official acts — a White House meeting desperately desired by the new Ukrainian president and critical U.S. military assistance — on Ukraine announcing sham, politically-motivated investigations that would help President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.
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"In pressuring President [Volodymyr] Zelensky to carry out his demand, President Trump withheld a White House meeting desperately sought by the Ukrainian President, and critical U.S. military assistance to fight Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine," the report says.
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The two letters come as the House conducts public impeachment hearings as part of its investigation into whether President Donald Trump conditioned a White House meeting and military assistance to Ukraine on the country investigating his political rivals.
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"We have some leverage that's been discussed in terms of the amount of aid and military assistance we give them, their status as non-NATO alliance partner - all of that can be put on the table," he said.
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DAKAR, Senegal — As accusations of human rights violations pile up in Cameroon's two-front battle against secessionists and Islamist extremists, the United States has decided to scale back its military assistance to its longtime ally in Central Africa.
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This includes a security-sector reform endowment, which would levy a small tax on existing military assistance to provide grant funding to reward or support partner-led efforts to reform their security sectors or build basic institutional capabilities.
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The country receives $1.3 billion in annual military assistance from the US, though Trump's decision to delay or cut almost $300 million in aid to Egypt in August of last year came as a surprise to Egyptian officials.
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Their period of absence opened the door for Arab countries such as Egypt and the UAE, which provided training and military assistance, according to reports from U.N. experts monitoring an arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011, and diplomats.
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He described key moments between many of the major players embroiled in the controversy and centered on the question of the decision to delay military assistance to Ukraine for the promise of going after one of Trump's political opponents.
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The United States and Israel signed an agreement in September 2016 to give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history but one that included concessions by Israel's government.
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Cuba has furnished tens of thousands of doctors, educators and other technical assistance including intelligence and military assistance to Venezuela's socialist government since the time of Maduro's predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, who forged close ties with Fidel Castro.
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Since Russia's military intervention in Syria's war in 2015, and with stepped-up Iranian military assistance, Assad has taken back large amounts of territory from rebels as well as swathes of central and eastern Syria from Islamic State militants.
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher The question of whether President Trump leveraged military assistance to Ukraine for personal gain is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
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PBS Newshour's Judy Woodruff asked Tillerson what he would have done if, while he was secretary of State, the Trump administration had conditioned millions in U.S. military assistance to Ukraine on the launch of a political investigation, CNN reported.
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And the United States provides Egypt with more than $1.3 billion a year in military assistance and $150 million a year in economic assistance, making it the second-largest recipient of US foreign aid in the world (after Israel).
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Russia has sent military assistance to Libya and the Central African Republic, while China has established major economic ties to a multitude of African nations and has built a major military base in Djibouti, close to a US installation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Department of Defense official testified on Wednesday that Ukrainian officials knew President Donald Trump's administration was withholding military assistance in July, undercutting a key Republican defense of the president's actions in the impeachment inquiry.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is reviewing whether $250 million in military assistance should be sent to Ukraine in keeping with President Donald Trump's view that U.S. foreign aid must be justified, two senior administration officials said on Thursday.
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Bolton reportedly wrote in his forthcoming book that Trump told him in August that he wanted to withhold $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine until the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, agreed to share information pertaining to the investigations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - French Defence Minister Florence Parly said she warned her U.S. counterpart during a visit to the Pentagon on Monday that counter-terrorism efforts in West Africa would be negatively affected by a reduction in U.S. military assistance.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Democrats on Monday issued subpoenas to the Pentagon and the White House budget office as part of their impeachment inquiry, requesting documents related to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withhold military assistance for Ukraine.
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Still, Volker's testimony also provided Trump and his allies with fodder, as he told lawmakers that he didn't know about any "quid pro quo" linking US military assistance to the announcement of Ukrainian investigations into Biden and the Democrats.
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A partial record of a July call between Trump and Zelensky released by the White House on Wednesday shows that the American president urged Zelensky to open a corruption investigation after a discussion of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.
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Both witnesses testified that as the summer went on, concerns within the American and Ukrainian governments grew over Mr. Trump's decision to withhold vital military assistance for the country — a step he took as he pressed for the investigations.
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Hoyer responded that he'd come to the same conclusion over the weekend following a wave of stunning news reports about Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine — and potentially withhold military assistance from the U.S. ally — for his own political benefit.
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Mark Sandy's closed-door appearance alone was a breakthrough for Democrats, who have struggled to obtain testimony about what other officials have described as an abrupt order by the president to withhold the U.S. military assistance meant for Ukraine.
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C.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) also have their own Turkish sanctions bill, which would target Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's personal finances, prohibit military assistance and restrict Turkish officials' visas to the United States, among other measures.
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He revised his closed-door testimony to reflect that he told an aide to Zelensky that military assistance would not be released until Zelensky issued a statement agreeing to investigate Burisma, a gas company with ties to Biden's son.
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The states of Para, Rondonia, Roraima, Tocantins, Acre and Mato Grosso - out of the region's nine - have requested military assistance, according to a spokeswoman for the president's office, a day after President Jair Bolsonaro authorized the military to step in.
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Canada shut its embassy in Iran and expelled all Iranian diplomats in Canada in 2012 after accusing Tehran of posing the biggest threat to global security, mainly over its nuclear program and military assistance to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Washington has supplied aid to Ukraine including drones, radar, first-aid kits, night vision and communications gear as part Democratic President Barack Obama's strategy of providing non-lethal military assistance while focusing on sanctions and diplomacy to end the war.
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The reported threats come days after a public call by a group of U.S. lawmakers for a suspension of military assistance to Honduras, citing mounting human rights concerns including the murder of award-winning land rights activist Berta Caceres in March.
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A new approach might combine staged relaxation of existing sanctions with a strong commitment, conveyed privately to Putin, that fresh Russian imperialism will be met with draconian sanctions and substantial military assistance to Poland, the Baltic states and other NATO allies.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday its defense cooperation with Cameroon was continuing a day after the United States said it was halting some military assistance to the West African country over allegations of human rights violations by its security forces.
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That is why an increasing number of career professionals reported what they saw as potentially illegal and corrupt activity by the president and others accused of withholding essential military assistance to Ukraine to get political help in the upcoming U.S. election.
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Just last month, two House lawmakers — Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, and Brad Sherman, Democrat of California — both known as strong supporters of Israel, introduced their own resolution, asking the State Department to send military assistance to the Kurds.
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During that briefing, Mr. Mulvaney initially acknowledged the existence of a quid pro quo linking military assistance for Ukraine to the country's willingness to start investigations Mr. Trump demanded, before insisting several hours later that he had not said that.
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Washington (CNN)Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is expected in the coming days to approve a Department of Homeland Security request for additional military assistance to reinforce areas of the southwest border with Mexico, according to two defense officials.
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A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Trump administration to adhere to a recently signed law requiring certification that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are meeting certain humanitarian criteria or else cut off some U.S. military assistance.
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The sharp increase in Houthi military power and ambition was the result of not only their capture of Yemeni state arsenals after the Arab Spring protests in 2011, but was also an increase in Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah military assistance.
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Jussi Niinisto told Reuters the framework agreement, coming at a time when Nordic states have complained of increased Russian military activity in the region, would not contain the obligations for military assistance that membership of the NATO alliance would involve.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said discussions had revolved around providing military assistance to defeat Islamic State militants, also known as Daesh, who seized a third of Iraq in 2014 and want to redraw the map of the Middle East.
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Both demands are long overdue, and they should have been made by President Trump along with a concrete warning that the United States will pull the plug on the military assistance if the Saudis persist in their irresponsible and indiscriminate bombing.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is seriously considering a plan to block $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, a move that would further ingratiate him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and has directed senior officials to review the aid package.
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Iron grip on population During that time, however, Egypt remained a key Western ally, receiving more than $1 billion a year in US military assistance and contributing troops to the American-led coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.
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"On the basis of this Russian propaganda, he withheld $400 million in military aid to a nation Russia was fighting – our ally," Schiff said, reiterating the allegation Trump used military assistance as a cudgel to push for investigations from Ukraine.
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The Trump administration has ordered a full evacuation of the 1,000 American troops that remain in northeastern Syria, leaving Mazlum Kobani, the commander of the Kurdish-led militia, and his forces to rely on Russia and Syria for military assistance.
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The country relies on bipartisan support in Washington for vital financial aid and military assistance, like the military aid package that Trump held up to try to force Zelensky to open investigations in Kyiv that would favor his 2020 reelection campaign.
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The Trump administration disclosed that there were 20 emails between a top aide to Mick Mulvaney, the president's acting chief of staff, and a colleague at the White House's Office of Management and Budget discussing the hold on military assistance.
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The impeachment trial has helped establish that this was probably the case last summer when Trump allegedly tried to coerce Ukraine into announcing an investigation of the former vice president by freezing vital military assistance and withholding a White House meeting.
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The Washington Post and other outlets reported Monday that Trump had directed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine at least a week before the call with Zelensky.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's advisers rejected a bid to force his administration to quickly release military assistance for Ukraine early next year, threatening in recent weeks that he would veto must-pass spending legislation if Congress did not remove the directive.
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The emails, released just before midnight on Tuesday as a result of a Freedom of Information lawsuit, underscored the confusion and surprise among lawmakers, including some prominent Republicans, who learned that the military assistance to Ukraine had been held up.
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Washington's civilian and military assistance to Pakistan was less than $217 billion in 17, down from a recent peak of $228 billion in 21999, and Abbasi warned that Washington will not achieve its counter-terrorism aims by starving Pakistan of funds.
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Taylor, a career official who remains at his post in Kiev, provided a damning account of how Trump told his appointees to establish a quid pro quo with Ukraine, trading much-needed US military assistance for political favors from Zelensky.
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As the evidence conclusively shows, President Trump conditioned official acts—a White House meeting desperately desired by the new Ukrainian president and critical U.S. military assistance—on Ukraine announcing sham, politically-motivated investigations that would help President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.
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Democrats say that despite his loyalty to Mr. Trump, Mr. Morrison backs up their main argument for impeaching the president: that military assistance for Ukraine was held up to pressure the country's leaders to announce investigations of the president's political rivals.
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By this time, the President was pushing on another pressure point to coerce Ukraine to announce the investigations: the hold on the vital military assistance that the President had put in place for more than a month, still without any explanation.
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That effort is at the center of Democrats' impeachment inquiry, along with questions about whether Trump withheld $400 million in military assistance and a White House visit from Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in order to force Ukraine to do his bidding.
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The Iran-Contra hearings were conducted by a joint committee of the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition that lasted 41 days.
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Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, argued that US forces are not engaged in the hostilities in Yemen and the resolution reinterprets US military assistance for Saudi Arabia as support for Saudi Arabia's actions in Yemen.
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It will outline Mr. Trump's efforts to pressure Ukrainian leaders to announce investigations of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats, while denying the country's president a White House meeting and withholding nearly $400 million in military assistance.
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In December, 56 senators voted to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen in what was the strongest show of bipartisan defiance against Mr. Trump's defense of the kingdom over the killing of a dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
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According to figures from the U.S. government's aid agency USAID, in 2016 the United States provided some $13 billion in economic and military assistance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa and $1.6 billion to states in East Asia and Oceania.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of U.S. lawmakers is making a year-end push to suspend millions of dollars in military assistance to Honduras, citing mounting human rights concerns, including the murder of high-profile land rights activist Berta Caceres.
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"We are engaged with the U.S. administration on the issue of security cooperation and await further detail," the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement following a U.S. announcement it was suspending all military assistance, believed to be at least $900 million.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain would find it difficult to refuse a request for military assistance in Syria from the United States if President Donald Trump decided to take action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over chemical weapons use, foreign minister Boris Johnson said.
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"Our assessment was that we would be better served by working with the Dominican Republic to address this situation rather than ceding the progress we were making with the Dominican military in the security sector by halting our military assistance," the spokesperson said.
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Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, put Khashoggi's case in a broader context of Saudi behavior, suggesting that Congress should force Trump to submit for approval the US's military assistance to the kingdom in its campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Rebel generals met near Salamanca in September to choose a leader, opting for Franco thanks to his successes on the battlefield and hopes that fellow Fascist leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, with whom he had good relations, would provide military assistance.
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"Another gap he could fill is giving greater form and substance to the diplomatic and political components of our engagement with countries like Lebanon, where much of the first year debate was focused on the military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces."
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The missiles are not part of the $250 million in military assistance that was blocked by the Trump administration and are also not part of the $141 million in foreign military financing that was announced the same day the military aid was unfrozen.
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The comments, by Vladimir Kozhin, an aide to President Vladimir Putin who oversees Russian military assistance to other countries, follow a visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, who has been lobbying Putin hard not to transfer the missiles.
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Meanwhile, as American attempts to tilt the battlefield in Syria toward outcomes favorable to U.S. interests, the Russians and Iranians provided direct military assistance to the Syrian regime and the results have been clear and positive from Syrian President Bashar Assad's perspective.
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It has been left to congressional leaders to chastise human rights abusers and sanction repressive regimes (such as the Senate resolution in December calling for the Trump administration to stop all military assistance to Saudi Arabia related to the war in Yemen).
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Russia has sent military assistance to factions in Libya and trainers to the Central African Republic, while China has established major economic ties to a multitude of African nations and has built a major military base in Djibouti, close to a US installation.
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In past cost-sharing agreements, South Korea only paid for three categories - personnel costs of South Korean workers hired by U.S. troops, military construction costs such as building facilities within U.S. bases, and military assistance expenses, such as for services and materials.
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WASHINGTON — The White House began asking administration officials detailed questions about military assistance to Ukraine after a meeting with President Trump in mid-June, nearly a month before the aid was abruptly frozen, a top Pentagon official told impeachment investigators last month.
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Although largely financed by petrodollars, these states with reactionary ideologies have greatly benefited from the military assistance and diplomatic support extended by the United States during the Cold War — a policy that has remained largely unchanged and unexamined in a very different time.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to cut off American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, preparing again to rebuke President Trump for his continued defense of the kingdom after the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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And the Senate voted 54 to 46 in March to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war in Yemen and to curtail presidential war powers, with seven Republican senators breaking ranks to join the resolution and the Democratic conference united in support.
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As American military aid to the coalition continues, a former American official in Yemen says the carnage highlights the need for a major overhaul in the way the United States provides military assistance in Yemen and other conflict zones around the world.
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And it's all out there now: a whistle-blower complaint filed by a C.I.A. officer detailing how Trump dangled military assistance in front of the president of Ukraine if he would do Trump a "favor" and investigate bogus corruption charges against Joe Biden.
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The Senate can ignore, but it cannot remove, the damning facts and testimony from the public record, which show that Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate a potential 2020 rival and illegally withheld military assistance in an effort to gain leverage.
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Having Joe Biden's son testify would illuminate the Bidens' irrelevance to the issue of whether the president held up congressionally appropriated military assistance for Ukraine until the Ukrainian president announced — not necessarily conducted, just announced — a government investigation into the Bidens' role.
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According to a bombshell report from The New York Times, Bolton wrote in a draft for his upcoming book that Trump explicitly said he was withholding nearly $400 million in US military assistance until Ukraine helped with investigations into his Democratic rivals.
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Sondland revised his closed-door testimony to reflect that he told an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that military assistance would not be released until Zelensky issued a statement agreeing to investigate Burisma, a gas company with ties to Biden's son.
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The top Democrat also requested that the Senate issue subpoenas for a "limited set of documents" that could shed more light on the Trump administration's decision to delay military assistance to Ukraine — an issue at the center of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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In talks and text message exchanges with him, Mr. Giuliani and United States diplomats sought an announcement of Ukrainian investigations, including one into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his family, while withholding a White House visit and military assistance.
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In recent years, even though President Trump has expressed great skepticism and pessimism about Ukraine, his administration has gone further in helping Ukraine by doing what previous administrations were reluctant to do — provide lethal military assistance to assist Ukraine in resisting Russian aggression.
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During a July phone call with Zelensky, Trump pressured his foreign counterpart to launch investigations into his domestic political rivals, and he is accused of withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in vital military assistance to Ukraine meant to counter Russian aggression.
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In their letters to the White House and the State Department, the chairmen of the three House committees sought records related to the Biden and Manafort matters, and warned against linking the military assistance to the push for investigations of the matters.
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In their letters to the White House and the State Department, the chairmen of the three House committees sought records related to the Biden and Manafort matters, and warned against linking the military assistance to the push for investigations of the matters.
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As of Saturday, at least six Brazilian states had formally requested military assistance to contain hundreds of fires, which have been burning for several weeks but plunged President Jair Bolsonaro's administration into crisis mode only this week after photographs began circulating widely.
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As of Saturday, at least six Brazilian states had formally requested military assistance to contain hundreds of fires, which have been burning for several weeks but plunged President Jair Bolsonaro's administration into crisis mode only this week after photographs began circulating widely.
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Chewning was featured in a recently released trove of unredacted emails that show Pentagon officials' concerns with the legality of White House moves this summer to hold up military assistance to Ukraine, an issue at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment.
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"He also directly expressed concerns that this critical military assistance and the meeting between the two presidents were being withheld in order to place additional pressure on Ukraine to deliver on the President's demand for Ukraine to launch politically motivated investigations," they added.
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This caused immediate discomfort at the Pentagon, with a top official there noting that this hold on military assistance was coming on the same day Ukraine announced it had seized a Russian tanker — a potential escalation in the conflict between the two nations.
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That's because it could imperil U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, which has traditionally drawn support from both sides of the aisle, not least because it is so essential to that country's efforts to defend against and push back on Russia's territorial aggression.
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The House Intelligence Committee released a sweeping, 300-page report Tuesday that documents how Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to roll out probes against his enemies, including by withholding much-needed military assistance in the country's brutal war against Russia-backed separatists.
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Authorities in Ukraine should be commended for seizing the weapons shipment, but when Kiev asks the United States for economic and military assistance, the least it can do is prevent sanctioned entities such as UM and Mahan Airlines to operate from its soil.
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According to Taylor, he spoke privately in late August with Bolton about his concern that Trump was withholding U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, though this was before he realized the aid freeze may have been to pressure Zelensky into pursuing the investigations.
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On it, he pressured Ukraine's president to announce investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats at the same time he was withholding nearly $400 million in vital military assistance for the country and a White House meeting.
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"The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in (the)military assistance by the United States and its partners," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a Senate hearing.
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Under the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008, the U.S. government must be satisfied that "no children are recruited, conscripted or otherwise compelled to serve as child soldiers" in order for a country to be removed from the list and U.S. military assistance to resume.
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The GAO issued a report at the start of the Senate impeachment trial finding that Trump violated the law by freezing nearly $400 million in military assistance funding to Ukraine, an act that spurred the House to charge the president with abusing his power.
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POLITICO first reported last month that Trump will request level funding for Ukraine aid in his upcoming budget, which is a notable break from his previous budget blueprints, when he proposed cutting tens of millions of dollars in foreign military assistance through the State Department.
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Honest Republicans know exactly what it means when a president uses legally enacted military assistance for illegally conceived attempts to blackmail, bribe or extort a freedom-loving ally under attack from a foreign dictator he often praises with words and aids and abets with deeds.
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Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, have introduced their own package of more punitive sanctions, with provisions that would cut off American military assistance to Turkey and bar Mr. Erdogan from visiting the United States.
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As a top official overseeing US policy towards Ukraine, Cooper would have been involved with overseeing US military assistance to Kiev, assistance such as the $250 million aid package that was frozen by the Trump Administration despite the Pentagon's recommendation that it go forward.
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When Trump got around to foreign affairs, you could certainly pick up echoes of Nixon's plea that "all of America's peacekeeping operations and all of America's foreign commitments must be reappraised"—way too much foreign aid and military assistance for far too little in return.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, whose country has more than 4,000 troops spanning across West Africa as part of a counter-terrorism operation, said on Friday that more needed to be done to support the development of countries like Niger as well as providing military assistance.
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WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharpened the focus of Democrats' impeachment case against President Trump on Thursday, accusing the president of committing bribery when he withheld vital military assistance from Ukraine at the same time he was seeking its commitment to publicly investigate his political rivals.
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Israeli officials argue that the provision, which is given to no other country receiving U.S. military assistance, was needed to maintain Israel's "qualitative military edge" against hostile neighbors such as Iran, and that its removal would mean the loss of thousands of Israeli defense jobs.
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The DOJ attempted to distance itself from Trump's White House in mid-October, after Trump's Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney appeared to confirm a quid pro quo arrangement with Ukraine in the form of swapping vital military assistance for politically-helpful investigations on national television.
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With military assistance from a coalition led by the United States, the Peshmerga took the village last month and evacuated for safety the remaining townspeople, Shia Muslims who had survived two years of occupation by the Sunni Islamic State militants, who consider them unbelieving blasphemers.
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Trump administration officials said last month that the White House was reviewing whether the $250 million in military assistance for Ukraine should be sent to the country, even though it had already been approved by Congress in legislation signed into law by the president.
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But the top American diplomat in Ukraine, William B. Taylor Jr., raised concerns about the White House's decision to freeze $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine, tying it directly to the campaign to pressure the Ukrainians to develop dirt on the president's political opponents.
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Mulvaney first indicated that the Trump administration had stalled nearly $85033 million in military assistance to Ukraine in part because the president wanted Zelensky to investigate the unproven conspiracy theory that Ukraine was involved in the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server.
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And now, President Trump is embroiled in yet another foreign policy scandal -- accused of abuse of power for using military assistance to Ukraine to leverage dirt on a political opponent (though the allegation is central to his impeachment trial, he denies that was his intent).
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The soldiers, whom I met over the course of a week this month while traveling along the snaking 250-mile front line in eastern Ukraine, painted a clear picture of just how important US military assistance is for Ukraine in its war against Russia.
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Russia's military assistance has been crucial to keeping the government afloat, and Russia has been providing food and services to people fleeing eastern Aleppo in the recent fighting, even as it has been blamed by the opposition for backing indiscriminate bombing by the government.
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Sondland told members of the Intelligence Committee on Wednesday that he "later came to believe" that the military assistance — which had been frozen at Trump's direction over the summer — would not be delivered to Ukraine unless the country publicly committed to pursuing Trump's desired investigations.
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"These text messages reflect serious concerns raised by a State Department official about the detrimental effects of withholding critical military assistance from Ukraine, and the importance of setting up a meeting between President Trump and the Ukrainian President without further delay," the chairmen wrote.
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Several career national security and foreign service officials who testified in the House impeachment inquiry also revealed that Bolton was staunchly opposed to Trump&aposs efforts to strongarm Ukraine into delivering political dirt in exchange for US military assistance and a White House meeting.
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And calls for the Senate to broaden the investigation are resonating amid recent revelations that appear to bolster the impeachment case that Trump froze military assistance from Ukraine partly to coerce it to dig for dirt on his possible 2020 election rival Joe Biden.
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Up for grabs was nearly $2628 million in military and economic assistance, which the Trump administration cancelled, and another $28503 million in military assistance that it chose to keep behind a fence, contingent on the Egyptian government fulfilling as yet unspecified human rights criteria.
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But things started unraveling pretty quickly, and Sondland was forced to revise his testimony with a sworn statement saying that he told a Ukrainian official they likely wouldn't get the frozen US military assistance until Zelensky announced the "investigations," a reference to the Biden probe.
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Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released a sanctions bill that would target the U.S. assets of Erdogan and other top Turkish officials, sanction international military transactions to Turkey, restrict Turkish officials' visas to the United States, and prohibit most U.S. military assistance to Turkey.
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Monday's hearing featured a presentation of the House Intelligence Committee's 300-page report alleging Trump pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate his political rivals and sought to withhold critical military assistance from the country and a White House meeting from its president as leverage.
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" Sondland said he "always believed that suspending aid to Ukraine was ill-advised," and although he claims he did not know why the military assistance was initially suspended, Sondland said he later "presumed" the aid "had become linked to the proposed anti-corruption statement.
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Sondland12:42 PM Sept 1Call me One day after POLITICO revealed that military assistance aid was being withheld, Trump canceled his trip to Poland where he was expected to meet with Zelensky, citing a need to remain in the U.S. to monitor an impending hurricane.
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House Democrats are weighing whether Trump should be removed from office for holding up nearly $400 million in congressionally authorized military assistance to Ukraine as it battled pro-Russian separatists in return for allegedly pressuring Ukraine's president to launch an investigation of Trump's political rivals.
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But "the U.S. rhetoric was over the top," said Charles S. Shapiro, a former ambassador to Venezuela, adding that the statements may have led some in the opposition to believe that military assistance would be on the way if Mr. Maduro blocked the aid.
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"The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in (the) military assistance by the United States and its partners," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee today.
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But while they were more than happy to yell about process, few stepped up to defend President Trump against the damning testimony Tuesday by career diplomat Bill Taylor, that Trump had held up military assistance to Ukraine to try to get them to investigate his political rivals.
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Here again, President Trump stepped into an ethical and legal minefield by withholding a White House meeting and $400 million worth of military assistance to a besieged Ukrainian leader -- whose country's eastern provinces suffer under Russian-backed separatist fighting -- in exchange for dirt on the Bidens.
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The White House hopes the agreement, which one official said would "constitute the largest single pledge of military assistance to any country in U.S. history," would cement the President's legacy as a defender of Israeli security, despite criticism from some quarters that he is anti-Israel.
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And David Schenker, the Washington Institute's director on Arab Politics, notes that the US expectation that American military assistance will be geared to fighting terrorism may be misplaced, simply because Cairo isn't making the kind of military purchases that actually work in a fight against insurgent groups.
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Alexander "said out loud what I think most Senate Republicans believe in private — that yes, the president did withhold military assistance to try to get Ukraine to help him in his election, and yes the president did interfere with congressional investigations of that misconduct," Schumer said.
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Engel said Thursday that he never intended to release details of his talk with Bolton because he considered them private, but he felt compelled to after Trump questioned reports that Bolton planned to say Trump linked a hold in Ukrainian military assistance to his desired Biden investigation.
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The United States is one of few countries in the world to leverage U.S. military assistance to end the use of child soldiers, passing legislation aimed expressly at prohibiting foreign governments from receiving U.S. weapons and security assistance if they are known to exploit children in war.
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The proposed regulations would move responsibility for licensing the export of arms that are commercially available in the US -- including assault rifles like the ones used in the Las Vegas massacre -- from the State Department, where Congress has oversight of foreign military assistance, to the Commerce Department.
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There has long been unsubstantiated speculation in the Philippines that Mr. Meiring was responsible for bombings in the turbulent region as part of a covert American operation aimed at gathering intelligence on the rebels or prompting the Philippine government to approve greater United States military assistance.
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Israeli officials argue that the provision, which is given to no other country receiving U.S. military assistance, was needed to maintain Israel's "qualitative military edge" against sometimes hostile neighbors such as Iran, and that its removal would mean the loss of thousands of Israeli defense jobs.
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But while the request for US military assistance was denied, the Emirati official said the Trump administration has publicly and privately said it supports the operation, as long as the coalition coordinates with the United Nations, takes efforts to protect civilians and continues to deliver humanitarian aid.
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In Syria, where Russia is helping President Bashar al-Assad fight a war with air strikes and military assistance, Moscow wants the West to drop ideas about regime change, abandon help for what it says are hardline Islamists, and drop talk of possible no-fly zones.
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Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulveney stated in a recent press conference that "We do it all the time," when referring to the withholding of American tax-funded military assistance to Ukraine as leverage to gain personal political influence in a future American election.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday again rebuked President Trump for his continued defense of Saudi Arabia after the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, voting for a second time to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war in Yemen and to curtail presidential war powers.
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But the Senate demonstrated last week that it was prepared to part with the president on Saudi Arabia when it voted 54 to 46 to end American military assistance for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, a conflict that has created a humanitarian crisis in the country.
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By withholding almost $400 million in urgently needed military assistance appropriated by Congress for Ukraine, which is still combating the occupation of its eastern territory by Russia, and using it to extort Mr. Zelensky's cooperation, Mr. Trump again put his personal interests above our national security.
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Mulvaney indicated earlier Thursday that the Trump administration had held up almost $22019 million in military assistance to Ukraine in part because Trump wanted Kiev to investigate an unproven conspiracy theory about Ukraine's involvement in the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server in 2016.
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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland will testify to Congress next week that he did not know why United States military assistance to Ukraine was held up nor who ordered it, according to a person with knowledge of Sondland's testimony before the House next week.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration notified Congress on Wednesday that it was putting $255 million in military assistance to Pakistan into the equivalent of an escrow account that Islamabad can only access if it does more to crack down on internal terror networks launching attacks on neighboring Afghanistan.
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On Friday, Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, expressed unease that the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, had, during a televised White House briefing Thursday, indicated a link between the withholding of military assistance and the demand for another investigation related to the Democrats.
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If the decision to suspend the aid was tied to a request by Mr. Trump for a politically motivated investigation, that "represents a fundamental challenge and problem for Ukraine," Mr. Klimkin said, possibly threatening what had been bipartisan support in Congress for military assistance to the country.
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Philippine and American officials have previously said that United States Special Operations forces were providing military assistance in the battle for the city, but American officials have not said from where, and Philippine officials had said there were no American military "boots on the ground" in Marawi.
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Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard, argued that attempts by Mr. Trump to withhold a White House meeting and military assistance from Ukraine as leverage for political favors constitute impeachable conduct, as was the act of soliciting foreign assistance on a phone call with Ukraine's leader.
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That effort accelerated through the spring and summer into a full-court press to force Ukraine's new president to accede to Mr. Trump's wishes or risk losing $391 million in military assistance desperately needed to hold off Russian-led forces waging a separatist war in eastern Ukraine.
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The report concludes that Mr Pompeo, Vice-President Mike Pence, Mick Mulvaney, the chief of staff, and others were "knowledgeable of or active participants in" Mr Trump's efforts to make military assistance conditional on Ukraine announcing investigations that would be of personal political benefit to him.
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While the Trump administration provided lethal anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in 2017, Trump is now mulling over a plan to block $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, raising questions about how serious he is about helping Ukraine protect what's left of its territorial integrity.
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The government in Beijing has ratcheted up its criticism of Mr. Trump in recent days, including with an editorial in a state-run newspaper that called him "as ignorant as a child" on foreign policy and suggested China might offer military assistance to American enemies in retaliation.
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One of the more egregious oversights in Ken Burns's recent documentary was not highlighting the extraordinary role that civilian State and USAID foreign service officers, many with exceptional language skills, played when deployed in the war zone as part of the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam.
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The remarks by Mazloum Kobani, the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, followed talks with senior U.S. generals in Syria and offered perhaps the most comprehensive view to date of his requests for an enduring military assistance from the U.S.-led coalition.
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In Syria, where Russia is helping President Bashar al-Assad fight a war with air strikes and military assistance, Moscow wants the West to drop ideas about changing the government, abandon help for what it says are hardline Islamists, and drop talk of possible no-fly zones.
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At least some Republicans seemed ready to do so, and were forming the core of their defense that Mr. Trump was only doing his job, and was justified both in pushing Ukraine to examine allegations of corruption and in withholding military assistance to ensure taxpayer dollars were wisely spent.
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"The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in military assistance by the United States and its partners," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, said to the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 11.
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The United States stepped up military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition in April, using tankers to refuel coalition jets bombing targets in Houthi rebels' territory to allow them to complete more missions, sharing intelligence, expediting deliveries of munitions, and establishing the planning cell that is now withdrawn.
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Not the shock when Rodrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, an American ally, caused titters by calling Barack Obama the "son of a whore"—but when he called a few days later for an end to American military assistance, including joint patrols in the South China Sea.
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And this fall, we concluded an historic $38 billion memorandum of understanding that exceeds any military assistance package the United States has provided to any country, at any time, and that will invest in cutting-edge missile defense and sustain Israel's qualitative military edge for years to come.
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They have portrayed a president determined to enlist Ukraine in publicly undermining his political rivals, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and to use as leverage a package of military assistance the country badly needed and a White House meeting its new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, coveted.
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And this fall, we concluded an historic 38 billion dollar Memorandum of Understanding that exceeds any military assistance package the U.S. has provided to any country, at any time, and that will invest in cutting edge missile defense, and sustain Israel's Qualitative Military Edge for years to come.
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WASHINGTON — William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Kiev, provided the most explicit account to date of President Trump's insistence that Ukraine publicly announce an investigation of Mr. Trump's political rivals in exchange for an Oval Office meeting and military assistance to fight Russian-led forces.
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Iran, a close ally of Iraq's Shiite political leadership, has resisted increased American military assistance, and Russia, as it has become more involved in the sectarian war next door in Syria, has also sought to strengthen its influence in Iraq, as a counter to American interests in the region.
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They raised similar questions about Sondland's truthfulness following the testimony last week of acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, who said Sondland had conveyed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the release of U.S. military assistance aid was predicated on Zelensky publicly committing to the investigations Trump demanded.
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But attempts by Republicans seeking to separate Trump from Giuliani were complicated Thursday when Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney declared that the White House withheld military assistance from Ukraine in part because Trump wanted assurances that the country's new president would probe the debunked Crowdstrike matter.
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The House impeached the president last month after an inquiry that exposed how Mr. Trump pressed Ukraine's president to investigate his political rivals, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., while withholding nearly $400 million in military assistance that Kyiv needed to beat back lethal Russian aggression.
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He wants memos and emails related to efforts to pressure Ukraine to announce certain political investigations; documents related to the decision at the White House to withhold a meeting with the newly elected Ukrainian president; and communication touching the decision to withhold $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine.
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PBS Newshour's Judy Woodruff asked Tillerson at an event in Texas what he would have done if -- while he was secretary of state -- US military assistance to Ukraine had been made conditional on the launching of a political investigation, which is what House Democrats accuse Trump of having done.
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Democrats also noted news reports that a member of Pence's staff participated in the call between Trump and Zelensky, documents Pence may have reviewed about the call, and the fact that Pence met with the Ukrainian president and reportedly discussed the administration's hold on U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.
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WASHINGTON — The House voted on Wednesday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, a defiant and rare move to curtail presidential war powers that underscored anger with President Trump's unflagging support for Saudi Arabia even after the killing of a Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.
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Last week, he announced Mr. Trump's selection of his own club, the Doral in Miami, as the site of the Group of 7 economic conference in 2020 — and ended up acknowledging that the president had pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to agree to investigate his political enemies in return for military assistance.
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In late June, Mr. Trump told top aides to look into the military assistance the United States provides to Ukraine, setting in motion a process that led him to order the withholding of $391 million in congressionally approved aid that Ukraine needed for its grinding war against Russian-backed separatists.
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By comparison, it has only withheld an estimated $61 million -- or roughly 5% -- of military assistance since the 2008 act took effect The liberal use of the waivers has undermined the purpose of the law, eliminating an important incentive for foreign governments to professionalize their militaries and stop exploiting children.
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"The committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized U.S. national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding military assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters," the letter read.
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However, a partnership that was once rooted in a few bedrock principles — Cairo maintains peace with Israel and provides Washington with a strategic partner in the Middle East, and the U.S. provides the Egyptians with $1.3 billion a year in military assistance in return — is now an increasingly complicated marriage.
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As part of the wider Tet offensive, two entire N.V.A. regiments had seized most of Hue, Vietnam's ancient capital, leaving only the First ARVN command post in the north and an undermanned post of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam in the south holding out as islands in the military storm.
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In more recent years, France has provided military assistance in the hope that General Hifter could help stop the free flow of migrants and extremists through the Sahara to the south, and Russia has helped him print currency in order to restore liquidity to the economy in areas under his control.
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In the wake of a New York Times report that Bolton claims in an unpublished manuscript that Trump explicitly linked military assistance for Ukraine to an investigation of former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Sanders campaign says it raised more than .
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Background: Politico notes that Javelins have featured in American military support to Ukraine since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, pointing to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service showing that the U.S. has provided $1.5 billion in military assistance to the Ukrainian government from 2014 to June this year.
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Even a White House visit, if it happens, risks being seen not so much as a triumph for Mr. Zelensky as more kowtowing to Mr. Trump, who could cite it as evidence he never linked such a visit, or American military assistance for Ukraine, to investigations that would benefit him politically.
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Despite many hours of testimony in which they expressed urgent concerns about the hold on military assistance, neither Sondland nor Volker have indicated whether they — or Trump, Mulvaney or anyone else in the president's inner circle — ever informed Giuliani about it even as they facilitated his meetings with senior Ukrainian officials.
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On the call, which occurred while the White House was withholding military assistance to the country, Trump asked Zelensky to "look into" Democratic presidential candidate Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE.
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While Trump's legal papers laid out extensive arguments as to why he did not commit a crime, the General Accounting Office, the watchdog arm of Congress, said last week that Trump did commit a crime by withholding U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, money that was ultimately sent after a brief pause.
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The "Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report" was a sweeping indictment of Mr. Trump's behavior, concluding that the president orchestrated a "scheme" to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats, while withholding nearly $400 million in military assistance and a White House meeting.
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Some of its most compelling evidence came from members of Trump's own administration supporting the allegations that Trump carried out a corrupt plan to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents for his own gain in the 2020 election in exchange for releasing $400 million in much-needed military assistance.
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From everything we know, Mr. Trump put President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don't situation: Either you deliver political ammunition against the Democrats by publicly announcing investigations against the son of Joe Biden, or I will freeze our military assistance to you.
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The former special U.S. envoy for Ukraine was the first impeachment witness to testify behind closed doors and assured lawmakers he saw no indication that President Donald Trump had conditioned a White House meeting and military assistance for Ukraine on a promise from the country's president to investigate Trump's political rivals.
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Mulvaney's news conference this week, in which he acknowledged the political reality of withholding military assistance to Ukraine, followed a pattern we saw during the Robert Mueller and Stormy Daniels probes in which Rudy Giuliani would blurt out damaging things that had been done but insist they were all appropriate.
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