That the troops were being reduced in light of the growing capabilities of Iraqi Security forces to address terrorism in the country. And of course, eisel was officially declare defeat in 2017. But the coalition has still been engaged in fighting an insurgency and trying to contain sleeper cells that remain operational in that country. But of course, its much more complicated than that. If we go back to earlier this year, there was this Parliament Vote to oust all foreign troops. And that vote came in response to the u. S. Killing of iranian general custom, some in money and other iraqi officials here in baghdad. And weve also seen a surge in rocket attacks on u. S. Interests, and it was in that context that the 2 sides renegotiated u. S. Military presence, beginning the drawdown from 1st 5000. 00 troops earlier this year to 3000. 00 troops as of september. So this additional drawdown is not that significant in light of the reductions that have already taken place. But what remains to
Where many embassies are based. It was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the Afghan Capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was under attack. Witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. So for the record, what they got was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. So we took them to hospital. I would have thought the way for book it was around 9 am. Rockets hit the bakery, wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. Lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. I still has claimed responsibility for the attack. It came just hours before the u. S. Secretary of state might bump a 0. Arrived in qatar as capital doha, hes talking to both Afghan Government and taliban negotiators. Involved in peace talks, there shows richies and security that are just breath yet again. So that the sort of weaponry gets into the c
Of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25 a strategy and special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment, gauges in canberra with more. This already has been a 4 year investigation, but this is really the beginning because this process has been administrative only within the defense force. It is not a criminal investigation. So all of these matters are still just allegations, but this report will no doubt be shocking. And extremely confronting to many people, it details dozens of allegations against at least 9 tain, special forces soldiers, who were in afghanistan between 2005 and 26, dana and some of the stories are quite confronting, including allegations of unlawful killing of civilians thats outside of the heat of battle, and also what was known as bloody. The report contains allegations that some younger soldiers were asked by them or say new soldiers to kill unlawfully kill people in afghanistan as a 1st kill. And some of those did do that in the
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Pressure is huge when we open the new unit will fill up very quickly many are in need of it as the 1st aid units in the region often have dozens of patients with the same problem patients that are in need of treatment at the authorities are struggling to hospitalized people due to a lack of beds or removal of anybody and people in each group. Or back in the spring medical staff in belgium were angry about the fact that they didnt have the correct p. P. The correct Protection Equipment to stop them from catching the virus and now theyre facing a new crisis amongst people working in hospitals that theres just simply not enough of them theyre also unhappy that a bonus that was promised to them by the belgian government hasnt been paid so weve seen doctors nurses and other people working in the hospitals demonstrating in one country. What that that sometimes we have to make careful choices we have to prioritize this is inhumane it is just. Bad for the patients as it is for us we wouldnt wa