US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has once again defended Biden's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Yesterday, Blinken said in a conversation with CNN that the decision of the Biden government to withdraw from Afghanistan was correct.
In an interview with International Affairs magazine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that the US has a history of questionable ally support. The end of aid to South Vietnam in 1973 and the Ashraf Ghani regime in 2021 led to their rapid downfall. The situation in Ukraine, heavily reliant on Western aid, raises concerns.
American officials have said that the United States will announce a new military aid package to Ukraine today (Wednesday, August 24, 2022) worth $3 billion, which is the largest US military support package to Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
A US government watchdog has announced a surge in violent attacks in its war in Afghanistan, saying they climbed to record levels in the last quarter of 2019.
The United States military has said that 11 of its troops were wounded in an Iranian retaliatory missile attack last week despite Washington's initial claim denying casualties.
US President Donald Trump says American troops should not leave Iraq unless Baghdad pays for “the money we put in” the country over the past several years, defying calls by Iraqi officials for US troops to withdraw.
Khalid al-Baidhani found out early about the risks of being an Iraqi working for the U.S. military in Baghdad. In 2006, he was waiting for a ride home outside a U.S. base.
Airstrikes conducted by the US military has killed at least 30 civilians, including children and women, in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand amid a spike in civilian deaths from aerial attacks.