News Roundup 6/25/18

by | Jun 25, 2018

News Roundup 6/25/18

by | Jun 25, 2018

  • POGO explains the trail program for the ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy. [Link]
  • SCOTUS decision protects cell phone location data from warrantless searches. [Link]
  • Peter Van Buren on the basis of diplomacy. [Link]
  • Nicholas Davies debunks the precision bomb myth. [Link]
  • Trump extends sanctions on North Korea for another year. [Link]
  • Trump says North Korea has returned the remains of 200 US soldiers. [Link]
  • Japan will halt missile attack drills as a result of the diplomatic progress made with North Korea. [Link]
  • Erdogan wins reelection as president of Turkey. [Link]
  • Saudi Arabia lifts the ban on women driving. [Link]
  • The Taliban kill 16 Afghan soldiers and kidnap two civilians in an attack. [Link]
  • The Taliban capture 80 Afghan soldiers. [Link]
  • The US continues to increase the bombing of Afghanistan. [Link]
  • The US government is paying for an Afghan highway that remains uncompleted after 12 years. [Link]
  • None of the US counternarcotics operations have been successful in Afghanistan. [Link]
  • Pakistani soldiers kill six militants near the border with Afghanistan. Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in the fighting. [Link]
  • The Syrian government and allied forces will begin a mission to remove all terrorist groups from the Iraq/Syria border. [Link] The US will not provide assistance to Syrian rebels who will soon be under attack from Assad in south Syria. [Link]
  • Syrian state media claims a US airstrike killed a Syrian soldier. [Link]
  • The Iraqi Supreme Court has ordered a full recount of the May election. [Link]
  • Saudi Arabia intercepts a ballistic missile fired from Yemen by the Houthi. [Link]
  • Alex Potter gives her eyewitness reporting of the Yemen humanitarian crisis. [Link]
  • The UAE operates a network of prisons in Yemen that sexually assault, rape, and torture the detainees. [Link]
  • Daniel Larison on Saudi Arabia’s fake plan to provide relief to Yemen. [Link]
  • At least one person was killed by an explosion at a rally for Ethiopia’s President. [Link]
  • An explosion at a campaign rally for Zimbabwe’s president is a possible assassination attempt. [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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