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Donald Trump will ask Americans Monday to trust him on his new Afghanistan strategy, exercising a president’s most somber duty, a decision on waging war, at a time when his own political standing is deeply compromised. Trump will make his first prime-time broadcast to the nation as president at 9 …

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday confirmed that President Donald Trump has a made a decision on strategy for Afghanistan after a “sufficiently rigorous” review process. However, Mattis did not provide details on when the White House would make an announcement or what the decision was on Afghanistan. “I am …

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says President Donald Trump would not be content with continuing the war in Afghanistan as before. Speaking in Manila on the sidelines of a regional security forum, Rex Tillerson said President Donald Trump has asked his advisers “tough questions” about American strategy in Afghanistan. …

Saudi Arabia has condemned Iran for delaying and refusing to complete investigations into the attack on Riyadh’s embassy in Tehran last year. A statement released by Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Iranian authorities refused to accommodate and allow entry of a team from Saudi Arabia to investigate what …

Erik D. Prince, a founder of the private military company Blackwater Worldwide, laid out a plan to mitigate Pentagon spending in Afghanistan and finally quell terrorism there. President Trump has three options, Prince explained. The U.S. could pull out of the area, which would encourage terrorists, continue the same “insanity,” of …

The office of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has confirmed his resignation from his post after the country’s Supreme Court disqualified him over corruption charges. Sharif resigned immediately after the Court said he was not fit to hold office and ordered a criminal investigation into him and his family saying, …

For months, President Donald Trump’s national security advisers have been working on a new strategy to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. But the president shut down that plan, sending them back to the drawing board. That plan was from national security adviser H. R. McMaster who, sources tell Politico, has …

U.S. Defense Secretary, James Mattis says the Trump administration is “close” to finalizing a plan going forward in Afghanistan. Mattis emphasized that putting together an overall strategy “takes time” and added, “this is hard work so you’ve got to get it right, that’s all there is to it and we …

The U.S. police were searching on Thursday for six African teenagers who were reported missing from a global robotics competition in Washington, the New York Times reported. U.S. Police officials confirmed that two members of the robotics team from Burundi, Don Ingabire, 16, and Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, were seen entering …

The US listed Pakistan among the nations and regions providing “safe havens” to terrorists , saying terror groups like the LeT and JeM continued to operate, train, organise and fundraise inside the country in 2016. The state department’s 2016 Country Reports on Terrorism named Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM), the two …

Pakistan’s military has launched a large scale operation against the Islamic States in its volatile tribal areas, bordering Afghanistan, Reuters reported. Pakistani Military Spokesman, Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor claimed that Islamic State (Daesh) was growing in strength inside Afghanistan, prompting Pakistan to launch an operation in Federally Administered Tribal Areas …

A U.S. State Department spokesperson says the U.S Afghan Policy Review is still underway. Ms. Heather Nauert, the spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, made these comments while replying to a question concerning the review of US policy in Afghanistan being conduced by the Trump Administration. “Our Afghan policy review …

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has confirmed  the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS). “(We have) confirmed information from leaders, including one of the first rank, in [ISIS territory] in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,” director of the …

An Afghan national detained on Friday with 23 passports at Islamabad airport, Pakistani Dawn News reported. The individual Azeemullah was intercepted when he was about to board Kabul-bound flight on Friday, Dawn newspaper said, cited from unnamed official.    Twenty- two of the passports belonged to Afghan government officials and …

North Korea appeared to use a Chinese truck originally sold for hauling timber to transport and erect a ballistic missile that was successfully launched on Tuesday, highlighting the challenge of enforcing sanctions to curb its weapons program. North Korea state television showed a large truck painted in military camouflage carrying …

A rogue SAS unit killed unarmed Afghan civilians then covered up the details of the potential war crimes, it was claimed today. The shocking allegations emerged in Operation Northmoor, a classified multimillion pound probe run by the Royal Military Police. Senior defence sources have said that evidence gathered on the …

U.S. defense officials say the Pentagon is considering an expanded and more aggressive role in Afghanistan, one that would include the American military once again targeting both Taliban and Haqqani network fighters. Both Pentagon and White House officials have been considering the expanded authority for several months as they have …

A doctor who had lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building on Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life in a burst of apparent workplace-related violence, officials said, Reuters reported. Reportedly, the …

A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday, escalating the OPEC nation’s political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by “terrorists” seeking a coup. The aircraft fired 15 shots at the Interior Ministry, where scores of people were at a social …

A landslide on Saturday morning in China’s southwestern Sichuan province has buried the homes of around 100 people, according to the official Xinhua news agency, citing local authorities. Xinhua did not give an estimate of the number killed or injured, but it said the landslide had covered 40 homes in …