News Roundup 2/6/17

by | Feb 6, 2017

News Roundup 2/6/17

by | Feb 6, 2017

    • The Trump Administration is walking back its plans to reopen CIA black sites. [Link]
    • The US military underreports the number of airstrikes it conducts by the thousands. [Link]
    • The US has agreed to a $8.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martian to buy 90 F-35As. The cost is about $7 million less per plane than the US’s previous deal to buy F-35s. [Link]
    • Turkey arrests 445 people that are accused of being members of ISIS. [Link]
    • Iraqi warplanes are conducting airstrikes against ISIS in Mosul and Tel Afar. [Link]
    • Syrian forces are making gains against the Islamic State across the country. [Link]
    • A human rights watchdog group release a list of human rights violations committed in Yemen so far in 2017. All sides of the conflict are on the list that includes torture, executions, abductions, and killings of civilians. [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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