News Roundup 6/21/17

by | Jun 21, 2017

  • Ron Paul hosts Edward Snowden on the Liberty Report. [Link]
  • The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote on a new AUMF on Thursday. [Link]
  • A US surveillance jet and a Russia fighter jet come within five feet of each other over the Baltic Sea. [Link]
  • The US flew two nuclear-capable bombers over the Korean Peninsula as a show of force to North Korea. [Link]
  • A car bomb in the Somali capital killed ten people. [Link] Other sources put the total dead at 15. [Link]
  • The Taliban killed eight members of the Afghan Security Forces in Northern Afghanistan. [Link]
  • An explosion in Mosul killed two journalists. [Link]
  • Congressman Eric Swalwell says that it looks like the US is at war with Syria and wants Congress to vote to approve the war. [Link]
  • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the Syrian plane shot down by the US was targeting ISIS fighters and not the SDF. [Link]
  • The US is looking to reestablish a deconfliction hotline with Russia in Syria. Russia halted the use of the hotline after the US shot down a Syrian plane. [Link]
  • Australia suspends airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. [Link]
  • The US military F-15 shot down an Iranian-made drone in Southern Syria. [Link]
  • The Syrian government resumes airstrikes in Deraa. [Link]
  • Polio in Syria has paralyzed 17 children. [Link]
  • At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi airstrike last week. [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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