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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rolled out a departmentwide effort Wednesday aimed at more effectively addressing China as the “pacing challenge” for the U.S. military.
While some of the initiatives will remain classified, defense officials told reporters the effort puts new organizational structures in place to better prioritize competition with China and to make sure the challenges in the Indo-Pacific region are “gaining the attention they deserve.”
“It’s an assessment of how the department’s doing with respect to truly treating China as the number one pacing challenge, and the task force found some gaps and seams, some things that we could be doing better,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said.
The U.S. has leveled sanctions against a Yemeni network that it alleges was working with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to transfer tens of millions of dollars to Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Some observers fear that one of the world’s most prolonged conflicts may only worsen as the United States detangles itself from 20 years of war in neighboring Afghanistan.
Iraqi Kurds in border zone flee Turkey s hunt for Kurdistan Workers Party
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Last Updated: Jun 09, 2021, 05:45 PM IST
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Erdogan is willing to move Turkey s ongoing military confrontation with the PKK from Turkey to territory the PKK controls or transits through in Iraq, said Aykan Erdemir, senior director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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A flag bearing a picture of Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is displayed during Nowruz celebrations on March 24, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan
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