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Without providing details, the Pentagon said in a short statement that “a majority” of U.S. troops and assets in Somalia will be withdrawn in early 2021.
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He beat the Nazis and COVID.
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A U.S. official said the decision stems from concern about a possible Iranian retaliatory strike on the first anniversary of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top general, Qassim Soleimani.
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These are some possible second- and third-order effects of U.S. troop drawdown from Iraq.
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The development is significant as it means the warring sides are getting closer to actually starting to negotiate the issues that could end decades of fighting in Afghanistan and determine the country’s post-war future.
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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs gave a humble assessment of the situation in Afghanistan.
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The prosecution is a counterterrorism success in the waning weeks of the Trump administration. But it almost didn't happen.
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President Donald Trump’s decision to pull almost half the U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by mid-January leaves NATO in a bind.
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President Trump is expected to order a withdrawal of most or all of the 700 U.S. troops based in Somalia before he leaves office Jan. 20.
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Biden's precise intentions for Guantanamo remain unclear, however.
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In Ghazni province, 31 Afghan soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded when the attacker drove a military Humvee full of explosives onto an army commando base before detonating the car bomb.