News Roundup 2/23/18

by | Feb 23, 2018

  • Prosecutors use the Alford Plea Deal to cover up for the state’s mistakes. [Link]
  • Nebraska’s Governor signs a bill limiting the use of data obtained by licenses plate readers. [Link]
  • 418 people died of overdoes in Maine in 2017. [Link]
  • Iraq War vets who were deployed near Burn Pits continue to suffer and receive little help from the government. [Link]
  • Glenn Greenwald and James Risen debate Russiagate. [Link]
  • Parents say more than 100 Nigerian girls are missing after a Boko Haram attack. [Link]
  • South Sudanese report horrifying human rights abuses to UN. [Link]
  • An outbreak of Listerious has killed 182 in South Africa. [Link]
  • Turkish activist is sentenced to two and a half years in jail for pro-peace Tweet. [Link]
  • US troops that will be deployed close to the front lines begin arriving in Afghanistan. [Link]
  • Pakistan deploys an additional 1,000 troops to Saudi Arabia. Pakistan now has 2,600 troops in Saudi Arabia. [Link]
  • Airwars issues the January report on civil casualties in the Syrian civil war. [Link]
  • Reports claim over 400 people have been killed by Assad bombing near Damascus in the past week. Human Rights Watch claims Turkey is not trying to prevent Kurdish civilian deaths. [Link]
  • Operation Olive Branch has forced 125,000 Syrians from their homes. [Link] Militias allied to Assad continue to move into Afrin to support the Syrian YPG. [Link]
  • A German ISIS fighter surrendered to the SDF. [Link]
  • The US is pushing a UN Security Council Resolution targeting Iran for allegedly arming the Houthi in Yemen. [Link]
  • Saudi’s aid plan for Yemen is a war tactic. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

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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