A fresh political row has erupted in the US after claims that sensitive JFK and MKUltra files were removed from Tulsi Gabbard’s office during declassification efforts.
A growing number of deaths and disappearances among US scientists has triggered concern in Washington, raising questions about patterns, security risks and the broader implications for sensitive research.
When a downed fighter pilot is recovered from hostile terrain, it is tempting to see only a story of military competence and individual survival.
A complex US rescue mission inside Iran relied on intelligence and deception, highlighting how modern warfare increasingly depends on covert operations rather than direct combat alone.
Trump made the remark on Fox News without evidence, adding that the allegation would put Mojtaba Khamenei "off to a bad start" domestically, a pointed reference to Iran's laws criminalising homosexuality.
The CIA's mission centers integrate key functions of operations and analysis, says former CIA China analyst Rodney Faraon, pointing to other key mission centers like counterterrorism and counterintelligence, the report said.
"It was reiterated that Pakistan remains committed to cooperate with its international partners for peace in the region, ensuring a stable and prosperous future for the Afghan people,"
Biden recently said, "If there are American citizens left, we're going to stay until we get them all out,"
Today, a more complete dominance by the Taliban looms with the impending pull-back of US troops. The Chinese will maintain ‘hard-borders‘ given their own vulnerabilities with the Uighur uprising, and the pandemic-fatigued Iran will struggle to offer any meaningful opposition to the Taliban. Potentially, the Taliban could crush all opposition and become the ‘export hub‘ of its puritanical-revisionist impulses, for which the first porous destination would be Pakistan.
Soleimani, who headed the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed in January in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
