News Roundup 1/23/18

by | Jan 23, 2018

  • Mehdi Hasan will release a series of shows on blowback. [Link]
  • The US provocations in the South China Sea will lead to a Chinese military buildup. [Link]
  • Pence says US embassy in Jerusalem to open by end of next year. [Link]
  • The US switching the Afghan military to American made helicopters will prolong the Afghan Army’s dependence on the US. [Link]
  • Tillerson calls Turkey and tells Turkey to “exercise restraint” in their invasion of Afrin. [Link]
  • Moon of Alabam on Operation Olive Branch. [Link]
  • Turkey has captured some villages in Afrin. [Link]
  • Head of Central Command General Votel visits Raqqa. [Link]
  • The Syrian Army retakes an airbase in the Idlib Province. [Link]
  • At least nine Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi airstrike. [Link]

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Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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