Somalias president has been going out for a bombing in the capital thats killed at least 79 people and injured many more now most of the dead were University Students heading in for a new day of classes a truck exploded at a checkpoint although police say the intended target was a Tax Collection Center theres been no claim of responsibility yet saturdays bombing was one of the deadliest recent attacks in mogadishu in 2011100 people were killed in a suicide bombing by al shabaab outside the governments ministerial complex and 2 years ago nearly 600 people were killed in the double truck bombing that too was blamed on alshabaab. Reports from nairobi in neighboring kenya. Joining morning rush hour as many people going to work and University Students heating to campus. Bombs exploded at a security checkpoint by many coming into mogadishu. A truck loaded with explosives was detonated at a busy checkpoint the explosion led to many deaths and injuries most of those died here students who were
Oh my god what distinguished casualties of the protesters will be recognized as martyrs and therefore their families will be compensated we will follow the investigation procedures to uncover the events that have affected the protesters. And activist who is jailed for rising in hong kong 3 years ago is back in court for an appeal hearing a large crowd gathered outside the high court in support of edward he was sentenced to 6 years in prison for his part in a violent clash with police the hearing comes at a time when hong kong has been gripped by months of demonstrations. Of farmers and indeed administered kashmir say restrictions on communication and movement are having a devastating impact on their businesses the Indian Government revoked the regions autonomy and sentence soldiers 9 weeks ago it also shut down internet and telephone lines the tory occasionally reports its harvest time in indian administered kashmir where apple production contributes 10 percent to the states 2000000000
Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
The confusion over u. S. Plans for syria donald trump is facing criticism for his decision to withdraw from the northeast paving the way for a take issue pensive what are the risks of a military operation and what to do with eisel fight is in kurdish prisons this is inside story. The and welcome to the Program Fully back to pull the white house is sending mixed messages about the future of americas role in syria President Donald Trump announced on monday that u. S. Soldiers would pull out of northeastern syria allowing turkey to launch a military operation against kurdish fighters turkeys defense minister says its forces are ready to enter and clear what he calls terrorists syrian kurds americas close on eye in the fight against eisel call trumps decision a stab in the back and after widespread criticism at home the president is not threatening to destroy turkeys economy if it does anything he considers to be off limits but a white house official says u. S. Soldiers are only being move
A bad idea that directly contradicts the statement from sunday that was released by the white house 1st announcing this attack was imminent when the white house said that President Trump and turkeys leader erda once spoke on the telephone they acknowledged that turkey would soon be moving forward with its long planned operation into syria so theres a problem with those 2 statements theyre directly opposing one another and youre right that sunday statement seemed to greenlight this operation by turkey and what this also signals is that the United States seemed to be fully aware of the scale and the scope 2 of the operation we havent had a statement as late as tuesday from the pentagon where they had continued to press articulating that stablish in a safe zone was the desired course of action in order to maintain stability and yet there was also an acknowledgement that turkey had rebuffed that suggestion so there is a bit of a problem with these 2 statements in fact there is a lot of cri