US News

• California Rep Eric Swalwell announces a 2020 run. [Link]
• Secret Service head Rex Allen has been fired. James Murray will take over as head. [Link]
• A Navy vet and Wyoming state lawmaker calls on WY Rep Liz Cheney to disavow regime change. [Link]
• A district judge halts Trump’s immigration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait for their hearing in Mexico. [Link]
• The Trump Administration that it is canceling an annual report on casualties from the drone war. The administration claims a Department of Defense report on casualties in US warzones makes the drone report unnecessary. However, the DoD report will not count CIA drone strikes. [Link]

Afghanistan

• Three US soldiers were killed by a Taliban car bomb near Bagram Air Base. [Link]
• The US revokes the visa of the ICC prosecutor investigating alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan. [Link]

Israel

• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said he will start annexing the West Bank if he wins reelection. [Link]
• The Palestinian issue has not been a major subject in next weeks Israeli elections. [Link]

Iran

• Trump names the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a ‘terror group.’ [Link]
• Daniel Larison explains why the sanctions Trump put on Iran has not changed Iran’s behavior. [Link]

Africa

• AFRICOM admits a US airstrike killed two Somali civilians on April 1, 2018. AFRICOM initially reports no civilians were killed. [Link]
• Eric Margolis gives a brief history of Algerian leadership to better understand the current political instability in Algeria. [Link]