News Roundup 3/29/17

by | Mar 29, 2017

  • Trump signs an executive order undoing some of Obama’s executive actions on climate change issues. [Link]
  • US officials say there has not been a loosening of the rules that allow airstrikes to have civilian casualties. Civilian casualties by US airstrikes have increased in Syria and Iraq recently. [Link]
  • The Senate voted 97-2 to approve Montenegro’s membership into NATO. [Link]
  • Last week, the US government denied carrying out the strike that hit a Syrian school and killed 33 civilians. This week, the US government admits carried out the strike but denies that civilians died in the strike. [Link]
  • Russia accuses the US of bombing near a dam and destroying other important civilian infrastructure in Syria. [Link]
  • The Syrian government makes a deal with Syrian rebel forces to allow the people of four towns to be evacuated. Two Sunni-majority towns besieged by Assad and two Shi’ite majority towns besieged by rebels will see civilian populations and fighters be moved to more secure areas. [Link]
  • Linked is a map showing who controls what in Yemen. [Link]

About Kyle Anzalone

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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