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May 04 2022
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Live Blog: Daily Russia-Ukraine News Updates
5/12/22: Coverage on this blog has ended. For the latest balanced news coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, check out our Ukraine war page.
Below are updates on the latest news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Behind-the-scenes here at AllSides, we've been sharing our own quick list of latest developments, and decided we should share them with our readers to help you
AllSides StaffMay 09 2013
News
Diplomat Airs Benghazi Attack Details
A high-ranking American diplomat delivered an emotional reconstruction Wednesday of the Sept. 11 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi Libya providing new details about frantic efforts to get military assistance locate the missing ambassador and evacuate the surviving Americans.
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 27 2021
Opinion
Joe Biden Has Been Derelict In His Duty. He Is Unfit To Lead. He Should Be Impeached
The deadly attacks in Afghanistan should be the final straw for Biden, whose incompetence has now cost the lives of at least a dozen American soldiers.
Joe Biden is not capable or competent to hold the office of the presidency. If there were any doubt on this point, his press conference Thursday evening in the wake of a pair of coordinated suicide bombings in Kabul should put the matter
The FederalistAug 24 2021
News
CIA head meets Taliban leader as fears for Afghanistan grow
The director of the CIA met with the Taliban’s top political leader in Kabul, an official said Tuesday, as more reports emerged of abuses in areas held by the fighters, fueling concerns about Afghanistan’s future and the fate of those racing to leave the country before the looming U.S. withdrawal.
Recent days have seen a flurry of efforts to speed a chaotic evacuation of foreigners and
Associated PressAug 13 2014
News
In Increase, U.S. to Send 130 Advisers to Aid Iraqis
The Pentagon has sent an additional 130 military advisers to northern Iraq to help plan the evacuation of thousands of displaced people trapped by Sunni militants on Mount Sinjar, Defense Department officials said Tuesday, raising the possibility that a larger American force may eventually be needed in the rescue attempt.
New York Times (News)Nov 12 2020
News
Six Americans killed in peacekeeping force helicopter crash in Egypt
The Multinational Force and Observers said one of its American members survived and was being medically evacuated.
A helicopter belonging to an international peacekeeping force crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, killing at least eight people, including six Americans, the force confirmed.
The helicopter belonged to the Multinational Force and Observers, an independent
NBC News (Online)Aug 18 2021
News
Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.
Honestly assessing what was going on in the field over the past 20 years is crucial to future military efforts, as well as U.S. global leadership.
While the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces this week produced image after image of heartbreak as Afghans clung to cargo planes and women tried to lift babies over airport barriers in an effort to save them, it was also a baffling theater of
Christian Science MonitorAug 18 2021
News
Trump rips Biden's Afghan actions: 'Our country has never been so humiliated'; 'blows Vietnam away'
Former President Donald J. Trump strongly condemned President Joe Biden and the catastrophe unfolding in Kabul, Afghanistan since the weekend, in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday.
Trump told "Hannity" that Biden has humiliated the United States more than any other president in history, explicitly eclipsing fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter's Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979.
Fox News DigitalOct 28 2019
News
California fires: When disaster fans flames of inequality
Planned power shut-offs may become California’s new normal. If so, that has vast implications for the world’s fifth-largest economy, including exacerbating inequality – even as those with resources work to help their neighbors.
California is under a state of emergency, ordering evacuations, battling fast-burning fires, and dealing with massive preemptive power outages. It is experienced
Christian Science MonitorFeb 28 2020
News
US workers didn't have proper gear to work with coronavirus evacuees, HHS whistleblower claims
Federal workers did not have the necessary protective gear or training when they were sent to help quarantined Americans who were evacuated from China during the coronavirus outbreak, according to a government whistleblower complaint.
The complaint alleges employees with the Department of Health and Human Services were sent to Travis and March Air Force bases in California without full
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