カテゴリー: US military
US intelligence evaluates claims of Afghanistan bountiesPress reports sparked outrage and calls to confront KremlinUS intelligence agencies have only “low to moderate confidence” in reports last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants i…
Biden outlines Afghanistan withdrawal: ‘It’s time for American troops to come home’ – as it happened
President says ‘only the Afghans have the right to lead their country’Roughly 1 in 5 Americans unwilling to take Covid-19 vaccineBlistering internal report reveals widespread failures by police 1.08am BST – Joan E Greve and Maanvi Singh 12.46am BST The…
Withdrawal of US and Nato military personnel to begin on 1 May‘It’s time to end America’s longest war’ – Biden at White HouseUS president Joe Biden has declared it was time “to end America’s longest war” as he announced that nearly 10,000 US and Nato t…
Antony Blinken: China aggression would be ‘serious mistake’China’s failure to provide experts access made pandemic worseOpinion: China v Russia v America – has Orwell’s 1984 arrived?Joe Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Sunday the US …
China considers recovering control of Taiwan its ‘No 1 priority’Adm John Aquilino is nominated to head Indo-Pacific CommandThe Chinese threat to invade Taiwan is serious and more imminent than many understand, the US admiral chosen to lead the Pentagon…
Surprise visit and meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in KabulTrip comes ahead of 1 May deadline to bring US troops homeLloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, meeting President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul….
Scientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieveThe US is building a new $100bn nuclear missile based on a set of flawed and outdated assumptions, a new report by the Federation of…
Asia Pacific commander Philip Davidson says Beijing wants to take Washington’s world leadership role by 2050China could invade Taiwan within the next six years as Beijing accelerates its moves to supplant American military power in Asia, a top US comma…
Top diplomat warns US forces could be withdrawn by 1 MayProposes UN conference and Kabul-Taliban talks in TurkeyThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has proposed a series of steps to help restart stalled peace talks between the government of Afgh…
Suspicions about army lab spread on social media after official’s tit-for-tat response to US claimCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAttempts by Chinese authorities to shift the narrative around Covid-19’s origins have reignite…
Cuts would decrease military presence from 4,500 to 2,500 in Afghanistan and from 3,000 to 2,500 in IraqThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut the US military presence in Afghanistan by almost half, before Joe Biden takes over the presi…
Tweet calling for troops’ return by Christmas puts peace negotiations in jeopardy and was greeted enthusiastically by the TalibanDonald Trump has announced on Twitter that he wants to bring all US troops home from Afghanistan by Christmas – a plan that…
Study focuses on post-9/11 wars in which US initiated combat or took part in military operationsConflicts with US military involvement have displaced at least 37 million people since the beginning of the “war on terror” nearly two decades ago, a report…
The Philippine president pardoned a US marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman. Rodrigo Duterte said he had decided to pardon L/Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton because the…
President’s move to free Joseph Scott Pemberton condemned as ‘shameless mockery of justice’The Philippine president has pardoned a US Marine in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman th…