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Once again, Qatar’s foreign ministry has gone beyond the borders of this Gulf Coast country in an attempt to resolve a regional crisis that could become an international crisis. Speaking during a media briefing held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Doha, Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari highlighted Qatar’s involvement in facilitating constructive dialogue between Iran and the international community. …
Army spokesperson Lt. Col. Dustin W. Cammack said that four prisoners diagnosed with COVID-19 are “experiencing minor symptoms and are improving.” Two of the prisoners who tested positive were identified by people with knowledge of the situation as defendants in death penalty cases: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of plotting the suicide bombing of the destroyer Cole in 2000, …
Department of Defense officials confirmed that a drone strike in northeast Syria killed a contractor and five regular servicemembers. The U.S. retaliated with airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, which hit buildings that housed drone/aviation assets and vehicles used by groups affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). One activist group said the U.S. strikes killed fighters on the …
Thousands of people backing a recent coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital, denouncing the country’s former colonial power and setting a door at the French Embassy ablaze on Sunday before the army broke up the crowd. French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that attacks on France and its interests would not be tolerated, and anyone who …
Polish officials expressed alarm after they received reports that about 100 soldiers from the disgraced Wagner group had moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border. In early July 2023, Poland began moving more than 1,000 troops to the east of the country amid rising concerns that the presence of Wagner fighters in Belarus could lead …
