Mexico builds temporary shelters to prepare for mass deportations from US

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters Mexican authorities have begun constructing giant tent shelters in the city of Ciudad Juarez to prepare for a possible influx of Mexicans deported under US President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations. The temporary shelters in Ciudad Juarez will have the capacity to house thousands of people and should be ready in […]
Kataib Hezbollah commander killed in Baghdad in US strike

Baghdad, Iraq Reuters A commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops, was killed in a US strike on Wednesday, the US military said. “[US] forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on US service members, killing a Kataib […]
US launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq, Syria; nearly 40 reported killed

Washington DC, US/Baghdad, Iraq Reuters The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and militias it backs, reportedly killing nearly 40 people, in retaliation for a deadly attack on US troops. The strikes, which included the use of long-range B-1 bombers flown from the […]
Three US troops killed, up to 34 injured in Jordan drone strike linked to Iran

Washington DC, US Reuters Three US service members were killed and dozens wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on US forces stationed in north-eastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and US officials said on Sunday. Biden blamed Iran-backed groups for the attack, the first deadly strike against US forces since the […]
US braces for more IS attacks after 85 killed in Kabul airport carnage

Reuters US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people, including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport. Two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the airport on Thursday evening, witnesses said. Video shot by Afghan […]
Who is ISIS-K, the group officials blame for the Kabul airport bombings?

RNS A horrific terrorist attack at a Kabul airport on Thursday has killed at least 12 US service members as well as more than 60 Afghans attempting to flee the country, a death toll US officials are attributing to an ISIS affiliate. The details of the attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport and a nearby hotel are […]
Updated: Dozens of civilians, at least 13 US troops killed in Kabul airport attack

Updated: 8:45am (AEST) Reuters Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 US troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee. Kabul health officials were quoted as saying 60 civilians were killed. Video shot […]
Essay: Afghans’ lives and livelihoods upended even more as US occupation ends

In an article first published on The Conversation, ABDULKADER SINNO, an associate professor of political science and Middle Eastern studies at Indiana University in the US, looks at the the country the US and its coalition allies leaves behind after 20 years there…
“Time to end the forever war”: Biden to begin US Afghanistan exit on 1st May

Washington, DC Reuters US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he will begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan on 1st May to end America’s longest war, rejecting calls for US forces to stay to ensure a peaceful resolution to that nation’s grinding internal conflict. In a White House speech, Biden acknowledged that US objectives in […]
Biden set to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by 11th September

Washington DC, US Reuters President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan by 11th September, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al-Qaeda attacks that triggered America’s longest war, US officials said on Tuesday. The disclosure of the plan came on the same day that the US intelligence community […]