BY BEN WATSON
reports from Bamiyan.
Sources of exodus: Ghazni as well as Oruzgan province.
Quick read: “The violence, which continued for ii weeks as well as left to a greater extent than than 100 dead, took residents as well as police pull past times surprise. Afghan forces ultimately quelled the laid on as well as pushed the Taliban out of the villages, but sporadic fighting continues.”
New here: “Until now, Shiite Hazara communities inwards Ghazni had remained untouched. But every bit the Taliban, a mainly Pashtun as well as Sunni militant group, has expanded its territory across the province — leaving but 55 percentage of Afghan districts nether regime command or influence — it has launched daring attacks to seize command of Hazara as well as Shiite strongholds inwards key Afghanistan.” Read on, here.
A few updated quarterly stats on the nation of war inwards Afghanistan, viathe U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general:
“This quarter, 65 percentage of the Afghan population lived inwards areas nether regime command or influence, a figure that has non changed inwards the past times year;”
“civilian casualties during the quarter increased compared to the same menstruum in conclusion year;”
“casualties to Afghan safety forces exceeded casualty rates during the same menstruum in conclusion year;”
And at that topographic point has been “little clear progress toward reconciliation during the quarter.” Read the total written report for yourself, here.
In other Af-Pak news, Islamabad has summoned the U.S.Chargé d’Affaires over President Trump’s remarks most Islamic Republic of Pakistan non doing “a damn thing” for the United States, despite $1.3 billion inwards recent aid. Reuters: “Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua called inwards U.S envoy Paul Jones ‘to register a rigid protestation on the unwarranted as well as unsubstantiated allegations made against Pakistan,’ Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said inwards a statement.”
You or individual you lot know may receive got wondered: Why shouldn’t the U.S. larn out Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan already? In instance you lot missed it, banking concern tally out our Defense One Radio episode on that real question. Set aside but nether an hr this vacation as well as psyche to that exhibit here.
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Micah Zenko of Chatham House: “Having studied physical deployments of US troops, this 1 goes downward every bit the most militarily pointless inwards modern history. It also didn’t deter the caravans, or compel greater cooperation from Mexico. So it failed on every evaluative metric. Aside for domestic politics.”
Space Force may add together but $550 1000000 to the toll of electrical flow infinite operations. That’s how CSIS’ Todd Harrison sees it: “creating a Space Force, large or small, amounts to zilch to a greater extent than than a reorganization inwards which coin would survive transferred out of the Air Force, Army as well as Navy into the novel military machine service,” Defense One’s Marcus Weisgerber here.
Expect to a greater extent than overlapping climate-related disasters, says a novel paper inwards Nature Climate Change. Already today, 1 writer told the New York Times, “Florida had lately experienced extreme drought, tape high temperatures as well as wildfires — as well as also Hurricane Michael, the powerful Category iv tempest that slammed into the Panhandle in conclusion month. Similarly, California is suffering through the worst wildfires the province has e'er seen, every bit good every bit drought, extreme oestrus waves as well as degraded air character that threatens the wellness of residents.”
“Things volition larn worse, the authors wrote,” according to the Times. The newspaper projects time to come trends as well as suggests that, past times 2100, unless humanity takes forceful activeness to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, unopen to tropical coastal areas of the planet, similar the Atlantic coast of South as well as Central America, could survive hitting past times every bit many every bit half-dozen crises at a time.” Read on, here.
The White House is right away considering labeling Venezuela a province sponsor of terrorism, Reuters reported Mon evening.
Where this is coming from: Florida Republican Sen. Marco “Rubio as well as ii other Republican senators sent a missive of the alphabet to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo inwards September urging him to cite Venezuela a province sponsor of terrorism as well as accusing it of links to Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant grouping as well as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, but they offered no proof.”
Currently on that list: North Korea, Iran, Sudan, as well as Syria. More here.
In expert intelligence this week: Australian authorities may receive got prevented a “mass attack” inwards Melbourne. “Police said iii men, Hanifi Halis, 21, Samed Erikioglu, 26 as well as Ertunc Erikioglu, 30, were taken into custody later they allegedly sought to larn a semi-automatic gun to deport out an attack. All iii men were charged amongst planning a terrorist act, police pull said. They are all Australian citizens as well as their passports were canceled before this year.”
Needles inwards a haystack: “Police said they are right away combing through 17,000 intercepted telephone calls as well as 10,500 messages exchanged betwixt the grouping every bit purpose of bear witness collected during their arrests. Police said it volition accept several months to transcribe the calls as well as messages.”
Worth noting: “The arrests came less than ii weeks later a human being laid burn to a pickup truck laden amongst gas cylinders inwards the optic of Melbourne as well as stabbed iii people, killing one, before he was shot past times police.” Read on, here.
And finally: For your eyes exclusively (U.S. edition): The first-ever F-35 elephant walk practise at Hill Air Force Base inwards Utah. The Drive has the icon as well as the details of all 35 F-35s, all of which took flying during the exercise, here.
For your eyes exclusively (Russian edition): Moscow’s most advanced jet, the Su-57, appears to receive got flown lately over Syria, according to this footage released Mon past times the Russian Ministry of Defense.
ICYMI: The Su-57 is numbered every bit such because F-35 + F-22 = you lot larn it.
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