US President Donald Trump has fired his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown, the BBC reported on Saturday. In a social media post, Trump also announced the replacement of five other top military officers as part of an unprecedented shake-up. “I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 More
In a move to downsize the federal workforce, the US Defense Department plans to fire 5,400 employees next week, says a Pentagon official. Reuters quoted a top pentagon official as saying the measure, which would be taken next week, was aimed to reduce the federal workforce. Darin Selnick, a senior Defense Department official, said freezing More
In line with their prisoner swap agreement, Israel is expected to release 602 Palestinians and Hamas likely to free six Israelis today, Reuters reported. On Thursday, Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli nationals who had been killed in Israeli airstrikes to the Red Cross. According to reports, since the start of the Gaza More
In a deepening row with his Ukrainian leader, President Donald Trump has branded his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator”. Trump’s diatribe came after Zelensky hit out at US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, with Ukraine having no place at the negotiating table. He claimed the US president was “living in a disinformation space” governed by More
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead seven people after offloading them from a passenger bus in in Balochistan province, a media report said on Wednesday. A group of around 40 armed men stopped several buses and other vehicles near Rakhani on the Barkhan-Dera Ghazi Khan highway late on Tuesday, Dawn reported. “Armed men offloaded seven passengers More
A joint assessment by the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and World Bank (WB) showed that the rebuilding of Gaza strip needed over $53 billion. This assessment showed the rebuilding and rehabilitation of Gaza needed $53.2 billion, with $20 billion needed in the first three years of the next 10 years period. Simultaneously, two More
Ukraine says it will not accept any decisions by the United States and Russia on the outcome of peace negotiations without its participation. President Volodymyr Zelensky made the remarks in an interview with NBC News on Feb. 16, the Kyiv Independent reported. “We have this place at the table at the very beginning, and we More
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the Gaza ceasefire and ensuring the release of all hostages. The US State Department announced Rubio’s visit to Saudi Arabia and his meetings with Mohammed bin Salman and Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud. A More
Two Pakistani soldiers have been killed and six others injured in an explosion in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a media report said on Tuesday. Radio Mashaal reported a landmine blast struck a military vehicle in the Kalachi area of the restive southern district on Monday. Two soldiers lost their lives More
The US military says it has killed a member of an Al-Qaeda affiliate in a precision airstrike in Syria. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted the strike Saturday “in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics official in the organisation Hurras al-Din (HaD), an al-Qaida affiliate. CENTCOM did not provide further details More
