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  • Poll: About three quarters support bringing troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan

    About three-quarters of U.S. adults say they support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan in a new poll commissioned by the libertarian Charles Koch Institute obtained exclusively by The Hill. In the poll, which surveyed 2,000 U.S. adults, 44 percent said they strongly support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq and 30 percent said they somewhat support doing so.

  • Native American stone tool technology unearthed in Yemen, Oman

    Archaeologists recently discovered 8,000-year-old stone fluted points on the Arabian Peninsula, the same technology developed by Native Americans 13,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. When the stone tools were first unearthed, researchers suspected there was something familiar about them. Scientists took note of the flute-like grooves texturing the sides of the stone points.

  • More than 500 State Department employees sign letter opposing return to offices

    Over 500 State Department employees are calling on the Trump administration to back down from its decision to send up to 80 percent of department staff in Washington, D.C., back to work in person amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The State Department announced Monday that it was moving its offices in Washington to Phase II of its reopening plan, allowing offices to be occupied at up to 80 percent, NBC News reported.

  • LEC announces NEOM as main partner for summer split

    LEC is also partnered with Secretlab, KitKat, Alienware, Kia Motors, Shell, and Foot Locker. Earlier this month, the competition announced European financial provider Erste Group Bank as a main partner.

  • US Democratic Party Rules Out Regime Change In Iran And Supports Nuclear Deal

    The Iran policy part of a new draft of Democratic Party's 2020 platform which calls for "a responsible end to forever wars" has received mixed reactions in the United States and worried some in Israel, while politicians in Iran have remained silent about It. Even compared to the party's own platform in 2016, the new draft marks a shift in attitudes toward Iran. The 80-page 2020 Democratic Party platform opposes regime change in Tehran. According to the Politico, Bernie "Sanders staffers pointed to some anti-interventionist language in the draft as a victory, particularly compared to the 2016 platform’s foreign policy proposals, which they viewed as overly hawkish."

  • Fully Armed Kadena F-15 Eagles Soar Over Saudi Arabia Wearing Some Awesome Nose Art

    The U.S. Air Force’s 44th Fighter Squadron, the “Vampires,” is currently deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. Since arriving in theater, the squadron’s maintainers have applied bold and remarkably large nose art to a number of the jets.

  • Saudi unemployment falls in first quarter, but before coronavirus impact

    Unemployment among Saudi Arabian citizens in the first quarter fell below 12% for the first time in four years, official figures released on Tuesday showed, but they did not capture the impact of the coronavirus crisis. Unemployment fell to 11.8% from 12% the previous quarter, the General Authority for Statistics said.

  • Saudi-Led Coalition Starts Military Operation Against Yemen’s Houthis

    A Saudi-led coalition has started a military operation against Yemen's Houthi movement after Houthis stepped up cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, Saudi state television reported Wednesday.

  • Big Bank Merger Points to Trouble at Heart of Saudi Economy

    Several years of low lending growth were already leading banks to look at consolidation as a way to create value and more deals are possible, Madani said. Two smaller Saudi banks, SABB and Alawwal, completed a merger in 2018.

  • Russian Bounties Are Part of Moscow’s Aid to the Taliban, Current and Former Intel Officials Say

    Explosive reports of the existence of the bounty program — and the Trump administration’s failure to publicly respond in the months since the program was discovered — have sparked outrage among lawmakers and some national security practitioners who claim that Russia has been allowed, essentially, to order the killing of U.S. service members.