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Taliban clearly behind violence in Afghanistan: US   Published On Commander of US forces in Mideast said Taliban are "clearly" responsible for violence in Afghanistan ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AFP) - The Taliban are "clearly" responsible for violence in Afghanistan, with civilians and Afghan security forces taking the brunt of the bloodshed, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said Thursday. General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command (Centcom), made the remar...

US Army Central Command chief says military looking to operate from other bases during 'a period of heightened risk'; no plan to shut down existing ones

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT: The US military is looking for fallback bases in Saudi Arabia to prevent its troops deployed there from becoming obvious targets in the event of tensions with Iran, a senior US military official said Thursday. “We are not looking for new bases. I want to be clear on that,” said General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command

Background – China and Russia relations In his speech at the first MEI - CENTCOM conference, General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of CENTCOM, argued that “we’re beginning to see a resurgence…of great power competition in the Central Command AOR [area of responsibility] as China and Russia begin to find weaknesses and begin to move into it. In Central Command, the Central Asian states and the central Gulf region, in fact, all of Central Command is becoming a newly active area of engag...

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia has held talks with Pakistani military leaders about the possibility of postponing the withdrawal of foreign forces from neighboring Afghanistan.

Rocket attack on US base in Iraq underlines continued Middle East militarism under Biden A rocket attack Monday on the heavily fortified American military base in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, has underlined the continued US intervention in the Middle East under the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden. The attack, which killed one military contractor, initially identified as a Syrian Kurd, and wounded nine others, including an American soldier, came as the Pentagon is form...

Three air expeditionary wings assigned to U.S. Air Forces Central participated in an integrated combat turn exercise, Feb. 13, 2021. ,

Members of the Navy, Army and Coast Guard aboard the destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill seized weapons in international waters.

Attack in Iraq highlights Bidens Saudi problem POLITICO 2/17/2021 By Lara Seligman © Hassan Ammar/AP Photo Biden is pictured during his vice presidency meeting with then-Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz, who is now king, in 2011 in Riyadh. President Joe Biden campaigned on ending his predecessor’s “dangerous blank check” to Saudi Arabia, vowing to hold Riyadh responsible for human rights abuses and end U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen. But just fo...

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