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    Drones target Iraq's Ain Al Asad airbase; no casualties, damage

    31 Oct 2023

    Two armed drones targeted Iraq’s Ain Al Asad airbase, which hosts US forces and other international forces in western Iraq, a security source and a government source told the media on Tuesday.

    US troops in Afghanistan should be ‘home by Christmas’: Trump

    08 Oct 2020

    All US troops in Afghanistan should be “home by Christmas,” President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, just hours after his national security adviser said Washington would reduce its forces in Afghanistan to 2,500 by early next year.

    US warship transits Taiwan Strait after Biden-Xi summit

    23 Nov 2021

    The latest transit came after US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping traded strong warnings on the future of Taiwan at a virtual summit earlier this month.

    Taliban noose tightens around northern Afghanistan

    10 Aug 2021

    Tens of thousands of people flee their homes for the relative safety of Kabul and other centres after Taliban militants captured a sixth provincial capital, along with border towns and trade routes.

    Promise of ‘sustained’ help as withdrawal nears

    26 Jun 2021

    President Joe Biden promised Afghanistan’s top leaders a “sustained” partnership even as he moves to accelerate winding down the United States’ longest war amid escalating Taliban violence.

    Seoul, Washington fail to agree on cost of US troops as deal set to expire

    18 Dec 2019

    South Korea and the United States failed on Wednesday to reach an agreement over Seoul’s contribution towards hosting some 28,500 US troops, ending two days of talks that were the last before their existing deal expires on Dec.31.

    US strikes five missiles in Yemen

    05 Feb 2024

    The strikes came a day after US and UK forces launched a wave of air raids against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis — their third round of joint military action in response to the rebels' persistent attacks on shipping.

    Uncertain future awaits Afghanistan after pullout

    16 Apr 2021

    The Biden administration’s surprise announcement of an unconditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 appears to strip the Taliban and the Afghan government of considerable leverage and could ramp up pressure on them to reach a peace deal.

    Dismay as US considers troop pullout from Somalia

    27 Nov 2020

    No country has been involved in Somalia’s future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred US military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call

    US mission in Iraq becomes occupation force

    12 Jan 2020

    By ignoring Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi’s call for the US to dispatch a team to Baghdad to establish a mechanism for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from his country,

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