WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD – The U.S. military troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is more than 90% complete, U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday. The news comes days after U.S. and international forces left Bagram Airfield, which has served for nearly two decades as the center of the U.S. fight to remove Taliban forces from power and take down al-Qaida […]
Haitian interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has appealed for calm after President Jovenel Moïse was shot dead overnight in an attack at his private residence. In a statement Wednesday, Joseph said an unidentified group of people who attacked the president’s private residence, located in a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince, were responsible for the killing, which […]
“This is devastating. And it didn’t have to happen. The world urgently needs a People’s Vaccine.” In Bangladesh, troops are preparing to patrol the streets to enforce newly imposed stay-at-home orders. Australia, recently heralded as a pandemic success story, is returning to strict lockdowns. Scotland is seeing a record-breaking surge in new coronavirus infections. Indonesia is teetering on the edge of a public […]
“We call for calm and to avoid escalation in all its forms,” the Iraqi statement added. Echoing criticism from across the globe on Monday, the Iraqi government slammed the Biden administration for overnight U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria at facilities the Pentagon says were used by Iran-backed militias. “We condemn the U.S. air attack that targeted a […]