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The US Justice Department on Monday charged two Iranians with conspiring to export sensitive US technology to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, including navigation systems used in military drones that killed three US service members. Dual US-Iranian national Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, 42, a resident of Natick, Massachusetts, and Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, 38, of Tehran, were charged with violating…
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As we’ve been reporting, three American troops were killed and 34 were injured in a drone attack in Jordan yesterday. Those killed in the attack were sleeping in a tent at a place called Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border, and some of those injured are being evacuated from the country. US…
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Drones target ‘two Iraqi bases’ hosting US troops An explosive device has targeted a joint patrol of US forces and the Iraqi counter-terrorism service near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, two security sources have told Reuters. Approximately 50 miles east, in the city of Erbil, an armed drone targeted the al-Harir air base, which…
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The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan in August during the final days before American troops withdrew from the country. The US Department of Defense said it made a commitment that included offering “ex-gratia condolence payments”, in addition…
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The Taliban says it is planning an inclusive caretaker government in Afghanistan after the group toppled the Western-backed administration in a stunning sweep earlier this month. Taliban sources told Al Jazeera that the caretaker government will include leaders from all ethnicities and tribal backgrounds in the country. Nearly a dozen names are being considered to…
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The United States told the United Nations on Wednesday that the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani last week was self-defense and vowed to take additional action “as necessary” in the Middle East to protect U.S. personnel and interests. Iran retaliated on Wednesday for Soleimani’s death by firing missiles at military facilities housing U.S. troops…
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The United States has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to “security conditions on the ground,” a top military official said Sunday as a Libyan commander’s forces advanced toward the capital of Tripoli and clashed with rival militias. A small contingent of American troops has been in Libya in recent years, helping…
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