Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he is withdrawing the Pacific nation from the International Criminal Court, which has begun a probe into accusations of crimes against humanity involving Duterte’s deadly anti-drug crackdown. Duterte’s office released a written statement Wednesday that Manila is “withdrawing its ratification of the Rome Statute effective immediately,” referring to the 1998 treaty […]
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, penned a lengthy letter that he then disbursed to journalists, asking President Trump to withdraw from the 16-year war in Afghanistan was made public this week. Trump has been considering raising the troop strength in that war-torn, beleagured country from its present level of approximately 8,400 to over […]
President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal as he starts his first full week in office. The Trans-Pacific Partnership had been negotiated since 2009 during former President Barack Obama’s White House tenure, but the U.S. Congress never ratified it, with numerous lawmakers opposed to or skeptical of […]
In the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, President Obama announced the plan to draw down the military forces in Afghanistan to 9,800 from its current level of 32,000 by the beginning of 2015. The president continued saying, “By the end of 2015 we will have reduced that presence by roughly half, and will have consolidated our […]