by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to shift $7.2 billion from the Pentagon budget to pay for his planned wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is “playing politics with the nation’s defense,” the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “It is bad...
by Aishwarya Airy | Nov 25, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The prisoner swap between the Taliban and the Afghan government, which led to the release of two western hostages and 10 Afghan soldiers in exchange for three Taliban members, has built trust between the Taliban and the U.S. and Afghan governments,...
by Aishwarya Airy | Nov 5, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON—The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the third quarter of this year hit a record high of 4,313 – a 42% increase from the same period last year, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction office says. Experts suggested the...
by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 29, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON- The Trump administration ‘s $6.6 billion foreign aid request for the Middle East and North Africa does nothing to punish Egypt for its humanitarian violations, like the capture of political activist Esraa Abdel Fattah, a House Democrat who served in the...
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by Aishwarya Airy | Oct 24, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — National security experts said Thursday that the U.S. military needs to provide education, not just equipment, to improve U.S.-Arab defense relations. The United States has been aiding Arab nations militarily for decades and has spent large sums of...
