US troops attacked in Iraq, Syria and on alert for more strikes
Washington DC, US Reuters US troops have been repeatedly attacked in Iraq and Syria in recent days, US officials said on Thursday, as Washington is on heightened alert for activity by Iran-backed groups with regional tensions soaring during the Israel-Hamas war. President Joe Biden has sent naval power to the Middle East in the past […]
Deadly threat: Islamic State hits back, aided by power vacuum in Iraq and Syria
JOHN DAVISON, of Reuters, reports on the re-emergence of Islamic State…
“What was the point?” Afghans rue decades of war as US quits Bagram
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters As American troops left their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, marking a symbolic end to the longest war in US history, locals living in the shadow of the base and in nearby Kabul were left ruing the past and bracing for what comes next. Violence has been raging throughout Afghanistan in […]
Essay: Why President Biden is right to get US troops out of Afghanistan
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes about why it’s time for US forces to leave Afghanistan…
Trump avoids escalating crisis, says Iran is “standing down”
Washington, US/Baghdad, Iraq/Dubai, UAEReuters US President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed away from days of angry rhetoric against Iran as the two countries tried to defuse a crisis over the American killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. In an address from the White House, Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to […]