Washington/Damascus, The first US military ground equipment has been withdrawn from Syria, signaling the beginning of the drawdown ordered by President Donald Trump, according to an administration official. “Some cargo has already moved,” the official told CNN on Friday. Due to security concerns, the official would not describe exactly what[Read More…]
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Senate votes to end US military support for Saudis in Yemen
Washington, The US Senate voted on Thursday in favour of a bill asking the Donald Trump administration to end the military support it is providing to Saudi Arabia in the latter’s war in Yemen, a move taken amid the controversy sparked by the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in[Read More…]
Pentagon sends 300,000 pounds of Thanksgiving food to troops
Washington, The Pentagon has sent more than 300,000 pounds of Thanksgiving food to US military troops stationed overseas and at the US southern border, the Defence Logistics Agency has announced. The shipments, which include 9,738 whole turkeys and 67,860 pounds of shrimp, were sent to dining facilities throughout the Middle[Read More…]
Transgenders will not be recruited in US military now: Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he will not allow any transgender people to join the military, saying that it is not easy to bear the “tremendous medical costs and disruption” they cause. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with[Read More…]
US dropped 26,172 bombs in seven countries under Obama presidency, says report
Outgoing US President Barack Obama, Nobel laureate for peace in 2009, was responsible for the dropping of 26,172 bombs in seven countries in 2016, over 3,000 more bombs than in 2015. The data released by Statistica are likely to be an underestimate, since the data came from a handful of[Read More…]