News Roundup 4/18/18

by | Apr 18, 2018

  • Rep Charlie Dent will resign from Congress. [Link]
  • The government wants access to all encrypted data. [Link]
  • The US attempted to use Cuba’s hip-hop scene to spark an uprising. [Link]
  • Greece and Turkey have long-standing airspace and island territory issues. [Link] Turkey argues Greece is violating international law by not extraditing members of the Turkish military that the Turkish Prime Minister accuses of being involved in the July 2016 coup. [Link]
  • North and South Korea may agree to end Korean War next week. [Link] Trump gives his blessing to the Koreans to seek an end to the war. [Link] Trump says the US and North Korea are engaging in extremely high-level talks. [Link] Trump tweets that Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un last week. [Link]
  • Israeli intelligence says the US strikes on Assad did not disable Assad’s chemical weapons abilities. [Link]
  • Trump and Bolton are looking to create an Arab Force to occupy East Syria. [Link]
  • Mark Perry explains the politics behind choosing between Turkey or the YPG. [Link]
  • Iraqi women and children who are related to ISIS fighters are denied aid and subject to sexual exploitation. [Link]
  • An Afghani lawmaker warns that the Ghazni Province is near falling to the Taliban. [Link]
  • Six Afghan civilians were killed when a gunman opened fire on their car. [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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