L8N2DH4WR] Over 30,000 police were deployed to oversee crowds attending prayers at the country's 7,000 mosques on Friday, officials said. Worshippers in the predominantly Muslim country were asked to ... ( read original story ...)
OPEC, allies coordinating to hold Saturday meeting: Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's energy minister said on Friday that OPEC and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, were working to hold their oil output policy meeting on Saturday. ( read original story ...)
Afghanistan update-COVID-19
Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director of the Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia at The Wilson Center, and Mariam Wardak, political analyst and co-founder of “Her Afghanistan,” talk with host ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. forces conduct airstrikes on Taliban in Afghanistan
American forces conducted two airstrikes on Taliban fighters to foil the militant group's plan to launch attacks on Afghan security forces, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday, in a move that ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. Forces-Afghanistan conducts airstrikes against Taliban attacking ANDSF checkpoint, first since Eid ceasefire
Afghanistan conducted two airstrikes in 24 hours against the Taliban to disrupt coordinated attacks on ANDSF checkpoint, a spokesman said in a tweet. They were the first airstrikes since the start of ... ( read original story ...)
What The Iraq War Can Teach Us About Better Policing
They got into hundreds of firefights in that period, doing that kind of work,” said David Kilcullen, who served as chief strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. ( read original story ...)
Iraq Records Over 1,000 Coronavirus Cases for First Time: Ministry
Iraq recorded more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time on Friday, with its total approaching 10,000 confirmed cases, the health ministry said. At least 285 people have ... ( read original story ...)
Australian Army ends training mission in Iraq after teaching 47,000 local troops how to fight ISIS
The operation to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS has been up and running since 2015 but was scaled back earlier this year due to coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
North Korea threatens to shut liaison office with South over cross-border leaflets
"The latest events have strengthened our conclusion that an enemy is just an enemy," North Korea's ruling Workers' Party said in a statement. ( read original story ...)
North Korea threatens to shut liaison office with South
North Korea on Friday threatened to permanently shut a liaison office with South Korea as it continued to condemn its rival for failing to prevent activists from ... ( read original story ...)