The Pentagon press briefing room at the Pentagon in Washington DC. (Credit: DOD) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – PENTAGON – No US troops or officials will face disciplinary action for a drone strike in Kabul in August that killed
An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan (Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES PENTAGON – WASHINGTON – A pentagon report has concluded that the U.S. airstrike that killed 10 civilians in
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander, U.S. Central Command, provide testimony at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on ending the U.S. military mission in
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – A U.S. retaliatory airstrike killed 2 ISIS-K militants in Afghanistan Friday, the Pentagon confirmed today. The unmanned drone airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan was an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner, according
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that 12 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing attack at Kabul airport. The attacks involved an explosive set off by a suicide bomber near the Abbey Gate entrance to
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – The Pentagon’s top military officials said Wednesday the U.S. Department of Defense remains focus on evacuating all American citizens from Afghanistan who desire to leave the country amid the Taliban’s takeover. The Pentagon also said the
United States President Joe Biden (Credit: Whitehouse.gov) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – President Joe Biden made his case before the American people Thursday in defending the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. President Biden vowed he would
Credit: usip.org / Ruli Ghani, First Lady of Afghanistan speaks on women’s consensus in her war-torn country at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. Nov. 14, 2019. By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON D.C. – Afghanistan women are insisting that the