By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President Joe Biden announced this week the United States will withdraw all remaining troops from Afghanistan by September 11, after 20 years of war, trillions spent and more than 2,300 Americans killed. It was a dramatic announcement finally ending the
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 21, 2021. (credit: Lisa Ferdinando, DOD) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan this weekend as the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Soldiers Will Not Be Part of a NATO Deployment of 3,500 additional troops To Iraq, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Tuesday. Last week, Alliance defense ministers agreed to raise the number of troops for the NATO
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin, III By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III reassured NATO allies that the U.S. would not undertake a hasty or disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan. An agreement reached last year calls for the
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers remarks to Department of Defense personnel, with President Joe. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 2021. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Secretary of Defense
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday suggested that Alliance troops may stay in Afghanistan a while longer than a May 1 deadline for international troops to leave the country. A peace deal made last year between the Taliban
His Excellency Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin on Friday spoke with Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to an enduring
Credit: avrupa.info.tr / Joseph Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Joseph Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, says the EU stands solidly behind the International Criminal Court after the U.S. slapped
Credit: icc.int / International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES In a move that has sparked shock and outrage in the global humanitarian community, the Trump administration on Wednesday imposed economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal
By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. vows to battle the International Criminal Court after the Hague-based war tribunal’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda was given the green light to appeal a previous ruling that blocked her request to open a probe into possible