Tag: US military presence

Categories Asia & Pacific

Japan may still install Aegis Ashore missile defense systems despite calling it quits on project with US – reports

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Tokyo might’ve said that Aegis Ashore missile systems were too expensive and dangerous to use, but it hasn’t given up on building the American defense package completely, an informed source has told Reuters. … Read More >Japan may still install Aegis Ashore missile defense systems despite calling it quits on project with US – reports

Categories World

While ‘Fighting Terror’, the US Hides Its Own Terrorism

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While the US war in Afghanistan is reaching its end after almost two decades of fighting, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the US ‘war on terror’, while it fought the Taliban, did produce its own peculiar form of terrorism in the shape of war crimes and virtually unaccountable use of force on hundreds and thousands of innocent Afghan citizens. … Read More >While ‘Fighting Terror’, the US Hides Its Own Terrorism

Categories Journalism & Mass media

How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies

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Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US intelligence agencies. … Read More >How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies

Categories USA

‘The case wasn’t proved to me’: Top US commander unconvinced by shaky ‘Russian bounty to Taliban’ intel

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Intelligence claiming Russia paid Taliban fighters to target US troops in Afghanistan lacked evidence, the top US general in the region has said. His account crushes yet another sensational media report based on anonymous sources. … Read More >‘The case wasn’t proved to me’: Top US commander unconvinced by shaky ‘Russian bounty to Taliban’ intel

Categories World

Russian Foreign Ministry: The Pentagon’s Activity in Tbilisi is Concerning

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The work carried out by United States specialists at the Lugar laboratory in Tbilisi contradicts the obligations of the United States and Georgia, which these countries have assumed by signing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), reminds the Russian Foreign Ministry. … Read More >Russian Foreign Ministry: The Pentagon’s Activity in Tbilisi is Concerning

Categories USA

DNI head says ‘unauthorized disclosures’ in Afghan bounty story ‘a crime’, place US troops ‘at risk’

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The US Director of National Intelligence said that recent leaks in the media may put US troops at risk and derail the investigation into source-based reports of Moscow allegedly paying the Taliban bounties to kill US troops. … Read More >DNI head says ‘unauthorized disclosures’ in Afghan bounty story ‘a crime’, place US troops ‘at risk’