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Have a lot of influence, intelligence, or information out of afghanistan. >> its definitely an issue. if you dont have boots on the ground, you are flying a little bit blind. and thats sort of the future of how were going to be in afghanistan. it was tragically brought to light by that errant drone strike in which we targeted the wrong person and killed ten people, seven of them children by mistake. and thats -- the pentagon calls this over the horizon capability and what they mean by that, i me...

Nato forces withdrew. >> its not good. >> the u.s. just sent $4 million to create a customs crossing point. now the taliban has a source of revenue. >> the loss of terrain has to be concerning. hope and morale matters. as you watch the taliban moving across the country, what you dont want to have happen is the people lose hope.eo >> people who have enough money leave afghanistan. every day thousands of people line up in embassies to leave afghanistan sooner. >> the pentagon is negotiating with a...

Jennifer. >> he described what happened. >> its not good. >> the u.s. just sent $4 million to create a customs crossing point. the taliban have a source of revenue. >> the loss of terrain has to be concerning. hope and morale matters. as you watch the taliban moving across the country, what you dont want to have happen is in the people lose hope. >> people who have enough money leave afghanistan. every day thousands of people line up in embassies to leave afghanistan sooner. >> the pentagon is n...

Nations. more than 1 million people in burkina faso have had to flee their homes in the last two years, says the u.n., and this is despite a substantial presence of french troops and a u.s. drone base in niger looking to go after the jihadist groups. the government says they will try and take on those assailants and nobody at this stage has claimed responsibility. al qaeda in that region, a group affiliated with al qaeda and a group affiliated with isis works almost with impunity of attacking vi...

Zelensky of ukraine. this was a call theyd been planning to make in advance and they had the opportunity to talk at length about the issues in the u.s. and ukraine relationship and president biden was able to tell president zelensky that he will stand up for ukraines sovereignty and its aspirations as we go forward. he told president zelensky he looks forward to welcoming him to the white house here in washington this summer after he returns from europe. >> jake, thank you. we know that afghanis...

Turkey’s New Drone Base Is a Problem Kind words will not bring peace to the Eastern Mediterranean; the only strategy that will work in the region is to demonstrate to Erdoğan that Turkey has far more to lose from scrapping the status quo than it has to gain. Addressing an audience of young people on May 19, 2021, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan explained Turkish military interventions in Cyprus, the broader Eastern Mediterranean, and Iraq, as well as his support for Hamas. “Turke...

© Reuters/Drone Base Colonial Pipelines Dorsey Junction Station in Woodbine, Maryland, USA May 10, 2021 A cyberattack that crippled fuel supplies on the East Coast of the US and sent gas prices soaring could have been an inside job conducted by American spooks, rather than foreign hackers, a prominent Russian IT expert has claimed. After a massive systems failure caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down, Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, a...

McCarthy Sets Wednesday Vote on Ouster of Liz Cheney Last Updated May 12, 2021, 8:24 a.m. ETMay 12, 2021, 8:24 a.m. ET The top House Republican portrays the party’s purge of a powerful critic of Donald Trump as the forward-looking move of a “big tent party.” President Biden defends federal unemployment benefits but says workers must accept suitable offers. Follow the latest news on Here’s what you need to know: Representative Elise Stefanik of New York is seeking to become the No. 3 H...

Gas supplies dwindle in U.S. Southeast, prices climb due to pipeline outage Reuters | May 11, 2021 03:34 PM EDT Holding tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at Colonial Pipelines Dorsey Junction Station in Woodbine, Maryland, U.S. (Photo : REUTERS/Drone Base) Gas stations from Florida to Virginia began running dry and prices at the pump jumped on Tuesday as the shutdown of the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline by hackers extended into a fifth day and sparked panic buying by motorists. About 7.5% of ...

Florida officials urge residents to heed evacuation orders due to wastewater overflow Toxic water causes mandatory evacuations along Florida’s Gulf Coast Replay Video UP NEXT Florida officials are urging residents in the surrounding areas of a wastewater storage pond to heed evacuation orders ahead of a potential overflow of polluted water. On Friday, the Manatee County Public Safety Department warned of an "imminent threat" of an uncontrolled release of wastewater from the former Piney P...