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Military to Resume Use of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine After Regulators Give Clearance Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Joseph Casassa, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) dental department, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Logistics Specialist Seaman Rix Zhang, from Shen Yang, China, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) supply department, at the McCormick Gym onboard Naval Station Norfolk, April 8, 2021. (Jackson Adkins/U.S. Navy) 27 Apr 2021 The military plans to resume administering ...

Get email notification for articles from Hagar Shezaf Follow Apr. 27, 2021 2:31 PM The High Court of Justice was highly critical of the Israeli government on Monday for not explaining the conditions under which it had allowed privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank to be used by Israeli settlers. The court’s comments came in a hearing on a petition seeking the rescission of a 1969 military order declaring the parcel of land in the Jordan Valley a closed military zone. The petitione...

SHARE The head of the US militarys Central Command, Gen Kenneth McKenzie, on Tuesday described the 2015 nuclear deal between major world powers and Iran as “flawed”, but said it ensured a collaborative response to a challenging issue. The assessment that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was imperfect but better than nothing “is still accurate", Gen McKenzie said at an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute. “When you deal with a security issue or a malign actor or natio...

Analysts: Extremist Groups Emboldened by US Withdrawal The announcement of the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan has encouraged armed and extremist groups in the region and world, say Afghan analysts, who add that if the withdrawal is done "unilaterally and irresponsibly," it will have negative consequences and will encourage other insurgent movements. One reaction to the US withdrawal announcement came this week on Twitter from Qais Khazali, CEO of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a movem...

US Starts Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan With ‘Local Actions’ Already Taken: Gen. Miller America’s top general in Afghanistan said Sunday that the U.S. military has already begun closing down operations in the country in preparation for a full withdrawal. “All of our forces are now preparing to retrograde,” Army Gen. Austin Miller told Afghan journalists at a press conference in the capital, Kabul. Miller added that the official notification date for the withdrawal would be May 1, ...

America’s Yemen envoy slams Houthis for spurning peace Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg April 26, 2021 22:50 US Special Envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking, German FM Heiko Maas and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths, Berlin, April 12, 2021. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/7jtbj A hearing held last Wednesday by the US Congress revealed important elements of America’s Yemen policy, as well as how lawmakers from both parties view the crisis. The Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Afric...

After two consecutive nights of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip to Israel, Hamas tells armed Gaza factions to “keep their fingers on the trigger.” “We call on our noble resistance in Gaza to keep their fingers on the trigger, to keep their rockets on standby to target the enemy’s fortresses and military and vital structures,” Hamas says in a statement. Hamas has not claimed direct responsibility for the rocket fire, which has been claimed by two other Gaza factions, the Popular Front ...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi met with top IDF officers and leaders of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip after Palestinian terrorists in the enclave fired dozens of rockets toward southern Israel over the weekend, the military says. Kohavi tells the mayors that the military is working to restore calm as well as preparing for a potential escalation in violence in the coming days. “We are dealing with violent incidents on th...

American presence to persist in Middle East By Department of Defense News WASHINGTON, D.C. — All U.S. forces must be out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. will be at the mercy of groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al-Qaida or the Taliban if they want to create problems and threaten U.S. interests, the commander of the U.S. Central Command said. While the 3,500 troops currently in Afghanistan will leave that country by the end of the summer, some w...

News From Antiwar.com Original and up-to-date news Pentagon Contractors Left in the Dark on Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan There are currently 16,832 Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan, the head of CENTCOM said most will leave under Bidens withdrawal plan Bloomberg Law, contractors in Afghanistan employed by the US military, who vastly outnumber US troops in the country, have been given minimal direction on President Biden’s withdrawal plan. “We need a much clearer idea of what the endgame l...