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• Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Casualty Update 23 Jun 2015 [PDF]
• Coalition Continues Airstrikes Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq AFPS 23 Jun 2015 -- U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.
• Afghan troops recapture Chardara district in Kunduz Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- Afghan government forces have recaptured a district in the country's northeastern province of Kunduz days after it was seized by Taliban militants, Press TV reports.
• Atta Noor: Unlikely Coalition To 'Inflict A Powerful Blow' Against Taliban RFE/RL 23 Jun 2015 -- As Afghan security forces battle the Taliban and other militant groups who are threatening to overrun parts of the previously stable region, RFE/RL correspondent Frud Bezhan on June 23 spoke with Atta Mohammad Noor, powerful governor of northern Balkh Province, about his plans to restore security in the volatile region.

Defense Policy / Programs

• US to Position Tanks, Arms in 7 European Nations VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday the U.S. will pre-position about 250 tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled howitzers in eastern and central Europe in a move meant to reassure NATO allies unnerved by threats seen from Russia and terrorist groups.
• US to deploy heavy weapons in eastern Europe Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- The Pentagon chief says the United States will deploy heavy military equipment in several Eastern European countries to boost NATO presence there, amid standoff with Russia over Ukraine.
• US Announces Aggressive Plans to Build Up Forces on Russia's Borders Sputnik 23 Jun 2015 -- On a visit to Tallinn, the US Defense Secretary said 250 tanks, as well as artillery and other military equipment will be put in seven countries, whose territory stretches from the Baltics to the Balkans.
• Joint Press Conference with Secretary Carter, Lithuanian Minister of Defense Oleskas, Latvian State Secretary of Defense Sarts and Estonian Minister of Defense Mikser in Tallinn, Estonia DoD 23 Jun 2015 -- Presenters: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter; Juozas Oleskas, Lithuanian minister of defense; Janis Sarts, Latvian permanent secretary of defense; Sven Mikser, Estonian minister of defense
• Carter: NATO's Unity 'Critical' for Future Challenges AFPS 23 Jun 2015 -- NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force has the speed to respond to future crises such as those involving hybrid warfare, space and cyber activities that can evolve and unfold in Europe, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters yesterday in Munster, Germany.
• Carter Praises Germany's Security Role, NATO Unity AFPS 23 Jun 2015 -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter discussed what he called the bright future of U.S.-German partnership and the importance of NATO unity to the European security environment during remarks at the Allianz Forum in Berlin yesterday.
• Hill AFB fighter wings test wartime skills during exercise AFNS 23 Jun 2015 -- Reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing and their active-duty counterparts, were recently put through rigorous tests of wartime capability during a combat readiness exercise here.
• Remarks by Secretary Carter at a Troop Talk Aboard the USS San Antonio DoD 23 Jun 2015 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
• Work Calls for Collaboration to Maintain Tech Dominance AFPS 23 Jun 2015 -- Space capabilities are at the heart of American military capabilities, and the Pentagon and private industry must innovate to maintain those capabilities, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said at the GeoInt Symposium here today.
• Marines test forward-staging abilities in Gabon USMC News 23 Jun 2015 -- Four MV-22 Ospreys, two KC-130J Hercules tankers, more than 150,000 pounds of gear and almost 200 U.S. Marines and sailors have effectively relocated half of a continent away from their base in Moròn, Spain, effectively enabling the force to reach an estimated 400 additional miles inland, June 10-15.
• USS Michigan Visits Busan During Western Pacific Deployment NNS 23 Jun 2015 -- The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN 727) arrived at Busan for a visit as a part of its deployment to the Western Pacific, June 23.
• Navy Divers Test New Equipment NNS 23 Jun 2015 -- Navy Diving is celebrating the Year of the Military Diver in 2015, with 100 years since the Mark V diving helmet was first developed, later becoming the cornerstone piece of equipment for the community for more than 65 years.
• US Army, Marines Collide on Cost Assessments for Weapons Repairs - GAO Sputnik 23 Jun 2015 -- The US Army and Marines do not know how much it costs them to repair heavy military equipment like artillery, because they make different and contrasting costing assumptions, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released.
• Geospatial Intel Will Grow in Importance, Official Says AFPS 23 Jun 2015 -- The role of geospatial intelligence in making American special operators the best in the world cannot be understated, Theresa Marie Whelan, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict, said here today.
• Russia May Strengthen Military Force in Kaliningrad Sputnik 23 Jun 2015 -- According to Russian lawmaker, Russia may reinforce its military presence in its westernmost Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad in response to the United States deployment of weapons in western Europe.
• MiG-31 fighters to get new navigation system for Arctic - official TASS 23 Jun 2015 -- The MiG-31 fighters interceptors will get a strap down inertial navigation system for operations in the Arctic, Vladimir Mikheyev, an adviser to deputy head of the Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET) concern Vladimir Mikheyev told TASS on Tuesday.
• Russian scientists to test drone with 45-hour fuel endurance in 2015 TASS 23 Jun 2015 -- Russian specialists are going to test a cutting-edge drone Inspktor-01 boasting an estimated fuel endurance of 42-45 hours, the chief of a laboratory at the Chemical Physics Institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Dobrovolsky has told TASS.
• Russia Launches Soyuz Carrier Rocket With Military Satellite Sputnik 23 Jun 2015 -- A spokesman for Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces said that Russia launched on Tuesday a Soyuz-2.1b space rocket carrying a military satellite.
• Daily Press Briefing by the Press Secretary, 6/23/2015 The White House 23 Jun 2015
• June 23, 2015 - U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 23 Jun 2015

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for June 23, 2015

Other Conflicts

• 23 June 2015 - Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General United Nations 23 Jun 2015
• UN deputy chief urges ramped-up support for global peacebuilding efforts UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- The international community must boost material and financial support for peacebuilding initiatives in order to better help countries emerging from conflict build a sustainable and peaceful future, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said today.
• Saudi fighter jets pound various areas across Yemen Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- Saudi fighter jets have bombarded various areas across Yemen, killing and wounding a number of people.
• Iraq: UN health agency seeks $60 million to keep critical health centres open in conflict areas UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- With temperatures soaring to over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in some parts of Iraq and the number of people fleeing violence topping 3 million, the World Health Organization fears the closing of nearly 90 per cent of the health centres in conflict-affected areas unless donors respond to an urgent appeal to ensure their continuing operation.
• More than 3 million displaced in Iraq since 2014: Report Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- The International Organization for Migration has put the number of people displaced in Iraq since a new wave of militancy began in the country in 2014 at three million.
• Syria's Kurdish forces retake town from ISIL Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- Force of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have managed to liberate a town in Syria's northern province of Raqqah, following battles against the Takfiri ISIL terrorists.
• ISIL destroys 2 Muslim mausoleums in Syria ancient city Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- Takfiri ISIL militants have destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra in the central Homs Province.
• Kurdish fighters retake villages, military base in ISIL-held Raqqa Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- Syrian Kurdish forces have reportedly retaken control of several villages and a military base in northern Syria as they continue their advance into ISL-held Raqqa Province.
• UN rights expert deplores 'profound failure of diplomacy' as Syria conflict escalates UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- Syria's "ever-accelerating" cycle of violence continues to reap civilian casualties and provoke "unspeakable suffering", the head of a United Nations-mandated Commission of Inquiry warned today, as he lamented the international community's inability to bring the country's four-year war to a close.
• Kurd Fighters Seize Syrian Town from IS VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- Kurdish-led forces in Syria have captured a town once held by the Islamic State group, as they continued to gain ground in their march to the main extremist stronghold in the country.
• UN Libya envoy meets with armed groups in support of political agreement UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- As part of an overall United nations-supported effort on the security track of Libya's national dialogue, the United Nations envoy for country has met in Misrata with representatives of armed groups, stressing the importance of local ceasefires and reconciliation agreements are welcome developments.
• With all parties now signed onto Mali peace accord, world must back implementation - UN envoy UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- Welcoming the signature last Saturday by all parties to the conflict in Mali of the Accord for Peace and Reconciliation, the top United Nations envoy for the country today told the Security Council that now the implementation phase must start.
• UN Envoy Asks for 'Peace Dividend' for Mali VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- The top U.N. envoy to Mali asked the Security Council on Tuesday to provide the country with a 'peace dividend' following last week's peace agreement with Tuareg rebels.
• Wanted Rwandan spy chief arrested in London Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- Rwanda's intelligence chief Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain on war crime charges, has reportedly been detained in the British capital, London.

News Reports

• Spokesman: Majlis motion on nuclear talks against Constitution IRNA 23 Jun 2015 -- Government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Tuesday that the newly-approved motion of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) about outcomes of the ongoing nuclear talks stands against the Iranian Constitution.
• Boroujerdi says Majlis bill empowers negotiating team IRNA 23 Jun 2015 -- Head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that the bill passed by Members of Parliament on Tuesday for preserving nuclear achievements empowered the negotiating team.
• Ahmadinejad's case under legal procedures: judiciary official IRNA 23 Jun 2015 -- The case of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahamadinejad is going through its legal procedures, senior judiciary official said on Tuesday.
• Spies of S. Korean Intelligence Service Tried in DPRK KCNA 23 Jun 2015 -- The Supreme Court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Tuesday held a trial on Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil, spies of south Korea's Intelligence Service who were arrested while perpetrating espionage against the DPRK under the manipulation of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime.
• People Vow to Take Revenge upon U.S. Aggressors KCNA 23 Jun 2015 -- Meetings of youth and students and women separately took place on Tuesday to vow to take revenge upon the U.S. aggressors with the approach of June 25, the day of struggle against U.S. imperialism.
• DPRK FM Spokesman Accuses Hostile Forces of Setting up Anti-DPRK 'Human Rights Office' KCNA 23 Jun 2015 -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued the following statement Tuesday:
• Rainfall fails to end drought in North Korea Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- North Korea is still experiencing a severe drought, described as the worst in a century, despite significant rainfall in the country's southwest over the past 12 days, state media say.
• New UN office opened in Seoul to monitor human rights issues in DPR Korea UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- A new UN office to work on the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was opened today in Seoul by the United Nations High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
• UNHCR in Seoul to Investigate N. Korea VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- The United Nations officially opened a new field office in Seoul Tuesday to document human rights abuses in North Korea. The world body has been trying to increase pressure on the repressive Kim Jong Un regime to end ongoing systematic human rights violations that it calls "without parallel in the contemporary world.'
• Russia Is Biggest Force Against Democracy In Eurasia, Report Finds RFE/RL 23 Jun 2015 -- Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds.
• Background Briefing on the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue US Dept. of State 23 Jun 2015
• US Spied on 3 French Presidents, WikiLeaks Says VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- The U.S. National Security Agency spied on the last three French presidents, transparency website WikiLeaks said in a press statement Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents.
• GCHQ spying on rights groups 'illegal' Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- The GCHQ's secret surveillance of two international human rights groups was illegal, according to the judicial tribunal handling complaints against the intelligence services.
• Most WikiLeaks Saudi documents verified: Spokesman Press TV 23 Jun 2015 -- The veracity of most of nearly 70,000 purported secret diplomatic Saudi documents leaked by WikiLeaks has been established, a spokesman for the whistle-blower website says.
• Italy Denies Role in CIA Plot to Abduct Egyptian Imam Sputnik 23 Jun 2015 -- Italy has denied having any involvement in the CIA's 'extraordinary rendition' of an Egyptian imam who was kidnapped by US officials in Milan in 2003 on charges of having terrorist connections.
• Avian flu threatens West Africa poultry farmers IRIN 23 Jun 2015 -- Naba Guigma, from Burkina Faso's Boulkiemdé province, southwest of the capital Ouagadougou, watched helplessly as his chickens and guinea fowl began to die off one by one. His very livelihood – like that of the millions of other poultry farmers across West Africa – faces ruin.
• Turkish MPs Sworn In as Coalition Questions Loom VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- Turkey's parliament reconvened Tuesday with a swearing-in ceremony for the newly-elected deputies following the June 7 general election.
• Rocket Carrying 'Green' ESA Satellite Blasts Off From South America Sputnik 23 Jun 2015 -- A Vega launcher has carried the first of the European Space Agency's dual Sentinel-2 satellites into orbit from a spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana.
• Exiled Yanukovych Accepts Some Responsibility For Maidan Killings RFE/RL 23 Jun 2015 -- Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych has said that he accepts some responsibility for the killings that led to his fall in February 2014.
• Once Accused of Treason, South Sudan Ex-Detainee Gets Old Job Back VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- South Sudan's ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) took another step toward reunification Tuesday as former political detainee Pagan Amum was reinstated as secretary general of the party.
• Nigerian President Accuses Predecessor of Draining Treasury VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Monday accused the former administration of Goodluck Jonathan of virtually emptying the treasury and leaving the country in debt.
• First-ever comprehensive online system to counter narcotics launches in Afghanistan UN News 23 Jun 2015 -- As the result of a three-year partnership, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Afghan Government today launched the first-ever interactive online system for all counter-narcotics-related data in the country.
• Liberia Watches Nervously as Ebola Spreads Near Border VOA 23 Jun 2015 -- Of the three West African countries hardest-hit by the Ebola outbreak, Liberia is the only one to be rid of the virus completely.