US to withdraw 11,900 troops from Germany: Mark Esper
President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained that US allies are exploiting the country on defense spending.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained that US allies are exploiting the country on defense spending.
The two Ministers also exchanged views on regional developments of shared security interest.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced a total of 2,986 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, within the US military.
The peace deal is ambiguous in many ways. Certain parts of the deal have been withheld, and these are essentially the unpublished commitments of the Taliban to honour the deal. One major problem is the release of Taliban prisoners by the government, after which, negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban are to begin. President Ghani has turned down the proposal on release of prisoners. Unfortunately, even before the ink is dry on the peace deal, the Taliban has attacked several government establishments in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 deal negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama.
The split between the president and his Pentagon chief came amid heightened tensions with Tehran following a US drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force
According to the embassy's statement, "US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land".
Muhandis has been identified as second-in-command of the Tehran-backed Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary group which includes Kataeb Hezbollah, the group that was targeted in the US airstrikes.
The Pentagon's decision came hours after hundreds of demonstrators, mourning for the Hashd Shaabi members killed in a US attack in Iraq on Sunday, stormed the US embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone.
US officials said there were no plans to evacuate the mission, and no US personnel were reported injured.
