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- Maduro’s heirs: human rights violators, corrupt enforcers and ruthless loyalists
As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, experts warn that Nicolás Maduro’s downfall could open the door to a successor "even worse" than the dictator himself and unleash a landscape dominated by drug cartels, guerrilla factions and armed warlords who have embedded themselves across Venezuela for decades.Venezuela today is less a centralized dictatorship and more a patchwork of criminal territories controlled by cartels, Colombian insurgents and regime-aligned militias. Analysts told Fox News Digital that U.S. policy now confronts not only Maduro but an entrenched ecosystem of non-state armed groups that could seize power in a post-Maduro vacuum.Roxanna Vigil, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. national security official focused on Latin America, said the trajectory is now binary.PUTIN DOUBLES DOWN ON BACKING MADURO AMID MOUNTING US PRESSURE ON VENEZUELA"The way I see it, what comes next will largely depend on what direction this U.S. pressure… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago - Two US soldiers and interpreter killed by Islamic State gunman in Syria, US military says
The Pentagon said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was "engaged and killed". ...[TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago - Trump’s ‘historic’ peace deal for DR Congo shattered after rebels seize key cityThe recent Washington Accord was hailed as "historic" by the US president but the fighting continues. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago
- State Department stays quiet as Albania reinstates deputy PM accused of corruptionThe State Department is so far refusing to comment on a growing corruption crisis engulfing the Balkan nation of Albania — a vital U.S. ally in the region. Following an Albanian court’s decision to remove Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku from her position on allegations she interfered in two construction bids, socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama took the issue to the country’s Constitutional Court, which on Friday reinstated her until a "final decision" could be made, according to media reports.The Special Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Structure (SPAK) issued a criminal indictment against Balluku on Oct. 31, alleging that she had been improperly influenced in her decision to favor one company in a tender for the construction of a 3.7-mile tunnel in southern Albania, Reuters reported. SPAK delivered an additional charge for violating rules in a Tirana road construction project on Nov. 21, the date when Balluku was removed from office.The day… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago
- Israel targets senior Hamas official in deadly Gaza strikeFour people were killed and multiple passers-by injured in the strike, an official from Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency told the BBC. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.19 hours ago
- US, Syrian troops come under fire while on patrol: reportU.S. and Syrian forces from the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria have come under fire Saturday, reports said.Two local Syrian officials told Reuters that the convoy was targeted while on patrol in the central town of Palmyra and that there were casualties.The Department of War told Fox News Digital that "we are aware of reports," but added that it had "nothing additional to provide at this time.""The United States, CIA and military forces are reportedly deeply involved in securing and stabilizing the situation in Syria," Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, recently told Fox News Digital.SYRIANS MARK FIRST YEAR SINCE ASSAD'S FALL AS US SIGNALS NEW ERA IN RELATIONSAs of June, the U.S. had about 1,500 troops left in Syria following withdrawals and consolidations ordered by the Pentagon, and that number was expected to drop to just several hundred… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago
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