Saying the move doesnt mean the u. S. Is backing away from its commitment to finding a political solution to decades of war a negotiated political settlement among afghans is the best path to achieving this outcome. Until there is accomplished we will continue to pursue an aggressive military campaign against the taliban and terrorist groups that continue to conduct violence against the people of afghanistan also in kabul on monday to meet afghan leaders a u. S. Congressional delegation led by House Speaker nancy pelosi reducing the number of foreign troops in afghanistan was the focal point of the recent talks between the u. S. And the taliban but those talks failed after President Trump playing the taliban for a surge in violence. And there has been an increase in attacks in recent months mainly from the town of on and are still linked groups adding more pressure on local Security Forces afghans are also waiting to find out who. One last months general election the results have been
A government is accused of manipulating the outcome. And for Drug Companies reach a multimillion Dollar Settlement for their role in fueling a u. S. Opioid epidemic. Protesters in lebanon are standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in the years against the nations leaders but activists say that they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down ill just send a ha to reports from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is. Offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful written by democrats here the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0.
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U. S. Brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish led forces in syria is due to end in about 10 hours time the Syrian Democratic forces pulled out of some of the areas of the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce turkeys president says hell decide the next steps after speaking with his russian counterpart thats threatened to restart the offensive that amid putin in the russian city of sochi in the coming hours well some cost the owners live for us now from istanbul some time so the 5 day ceasefire ends today and we know that president the russian president in sochi to talk about syria and whats happening there so what is it about hoping to get from the russians do we think. Well this is just hours for the Syria Ceasefire to end which was also a temporary ceasefire for the a c f n y p g forces to fully withdraw from the safe zone in Northern Syria this meeting in sochi is mainly about the constitutional process for syria because they are started to rio iran Tu
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