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USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The Army has rejected an appeal to return medals for valor to retired Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a Special Forces soldier former President Donald Trump pardoned for alleged murder in Afghanistan. It was one of three high-profile cases in which Trump interceded on behalf of troops accused of war crimes. The decision regarding Golsteyn, reached last June, was not announced by the Army in Trumps final months as president but is revealed in documents released to USA TODAY. ...

By RACHAEL RILEY | The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. | Published: March 17, 2021 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — The Department of Defense has announced 13 leadership changes for Fort Bragg, since the start of 2021. On Jan. 25, the chief of staff of the Army announced that Lt. Gen. Bryan P. Fenton would be the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command Forward. Fenton previously served as the senior military assistant to the secretary o...

The East African Monday March 15 2021 Bobi Wine supporters and journalists were beat up by Uganda’s Military Police in February. PHOTO | AFP Summary The rights body said the government should take steps to end the abductions of citizens by suspected state agents, and cease the detention, without trial, of opposition supporters. Advertisement Human Rights Watch has called on Uganda to investigate cases of enforced disappearances, determine the whereabouts and status of the victims, release tho...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 14 2021 Summary Disruption of any groups that might heed Mr Kyagulanyi’s call has been key in the security agencies strategies.  Advertisement Since the National Unity Platform (NUP) party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, called for demonstrations in protest of the Electoral Commission (EC) declaration of Mr Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 14 presidential elections, security agencies have stepped up operations to ensure no one heeds his call....

2021/03/14 10:51 Army Special Forces Command 2nd battalion troops on the move. (Military News Agency photo) Army Special Forces Command 2nd battalion troops on the move. (Military News Agency photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The 2nd battalion of the Army’s Special Forces Command on Friday (March 12) conducted drills in Tamsui as part of a 21-day tactical march in northern Taiwan. The battalion, in full combat gear, entered Tamsui at 5:00 a....

German state police declared free of far-right networks After an uproar over the presence of far-right sympathizers in the German police, the countrys most-populous state has said it found some officers tied to far-right groups but no networks of extremists among the force. German NRW state police have been declared free of major far-right tendencies Conspiratorial, action-focused far-right networks were "not detectable" among police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),...

Whereas the President says 51 of the victims are in the custody of the Special Forces Command, the elite force denies responsibility

Investigate Abuses; Release Those in Arbitrary Detention Ugandan soldiers patrol near the house of Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine in Magere, Uganda. ©Sally Hayden / SOPA Images / Sipa via AP Images (Nairobi) – Ugandan authorities should take immediate steps to end the ongoing abductions by suspected state agents and cease the unlawful detention without trial of opposition supporters, Human Rights Watch s...

Police hunt for 7 presidential guards cited in Shs 20bn gold scam March 10, 2021 Some of the confiscated gold boxes at CID offices Economic crime investigators from the Uganda Police Force have launched a manhunt for seven soldiers from the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) accused of defrauding a US national, Anastasios Belesis over Shs 20 billion in a gold scam.  Belesis filed a case at the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) headquarters ...

Daily Monitor Wednesday March 10 2021 Advertisement A section of Church leaders in Greater Luweero have urged the faithful to denounce acts that undermine the country’s stability and pray for a peaceful post-election period. While a section of the aggrieved parties in the recently concluded General Election have sought redress in courts of law, Kasana-Luweero Diocese Bishop Paul Ssemogerere believes that denouncing acts of violence will boost development in Uganda. “We have seen several lea...