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At least three killed in shooting at Iran-Afghan border

Two Iranian border guards and one Taliban fighter have been killed after shooting broke out near a border post between Iran and Afghanistan, sharply escalating rising tensions between the two countries amid a dispute over water rights. “Today,…
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Conflict of interest in Yemen might evolve into a UAE-Saudi conflict

The chasm between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has widened after the former intensified its talks with the Yemeni Ansar Allah Movement in an attempt to bring an end to its 8-year war on Yemen, a researcher of the Chatham House…
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China to Israel: ‘Immediately Halt’ Illegal Actions in Palestine

China has called on Israel to “stop encroaching” upon Palestinian territory and resources, as Tel Aviv continues to allow and approve the construction of illegal Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories. Speaking to the United…
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Iraq’s Dawa party condemns Baath return to Jordan

The Iraq’s Islamic Dawa Party described the decision of the Jordanian authorities to allow the Baath Party to resume political activities in Jordan as a “hostile and provocative act,” Iraqi Shafaq News reported on 26 May. The…
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Retired Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West: ‘Afghanistan Will Go Down as the Greatest Debacle in United States Military History’

President Biden’s abrupt, mismanaged withdrawal from Afghanistan in September of 2021 — just eight months after he assumed the presidency — continues to have a dire, negative and dangerous impact on U.S. military recruitment. In a recent…
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Two looted antiquities seized in New York will be returned to Iraq

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has coordinated the return of two looted antiquities to Iraq. The repatriation is part of a broader restitution effort pursued by district attorney Alvin Bragg’s Antiquity Trafficking Unit…
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Opinion: Millions Dead from Post-9/11 US Wars: An Unconscionable Cost

By David Kanbergs Last week, researchers working with Brown University’s Costs of War project released a substantial report detailing the number of indirect deaths caused by the various wars in which the United States has been involved…

Book of Week: Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi

By Fred Burton Fred Burton is a former counterterrorism agent for the US State Department's Diplomatic Security Service and the current chief security officer for Stratfor, a global intelligence and advisory firm. He has also served…
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Riyadh can secure peace for itself by stopping hostilities against Yemen: Houthi

The leader of Yemen's popular resistance Ansarullah movement says Saudi Arabia can only secure peace for itself by stopping its hostilities against Yemen and lifting a blockade that it has been exercising alongside its allies against the impoverished…
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US citizen found guilty of torture in Iraq

For only the second time ever an American has been convicted of torture in US court — for brutal treatment of an employee at a weapons factory in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Justice Department announced. Ross Roggio, 54, faces possible life in…