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Amnesty now calls Israel an "apartheid state". That seems destructive, but it also shows that little has changed in the country's government policies. When Amnesty International's human rights activists announce their verdict, they are not doing justice, but they are shaping the debate worldwide. Now it is: Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinians. That's in the title of the new report that Amnesty released on Tuesday. It goes far beyond the usual criticism of Israel's occupation policy, it is tantamount to a request to see Israel in a new light: not as a democratic state that also maintains a problematic military regime, but as an essentially discriminatory order. Amnesty calls for a halt to arms deliveries to Israel and for trials against those responsible in Israel. This is a real turning point. Not because Amnesty's assessment is new. The great public uproar surrounding "apartheid" began last year when the Israeli ...

US President Joe Biden has announced the end of the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year.  Our joint fight against ISIS is critical to the stability of the region and our counter-terrorism cooperation will continue even if we shift to this new phase that we are going to talk about After his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kasimi in the White House, there should be more details about the switch to a US advisory and training mission, government circles said. Read more:  Withdraw US troops from Afghanistan Biden said U.S. soldiers would stay in Iraq to train and assist Iraqis. The troops had fought against the terrorist militia Islamic State in Iraq. The then US President Barack Obama decided in 2014 to send soldiers back to Iraq after ISIS captured large parts of the west and north of the country. At the end of last year, there were around 2,500 US soldiers in the country. Former US President Donald Trump had ordered that the number of soldiers be reduce...

In Afghanistan, Doab district fell to the Taliban. It is the seventh territory the Islamists have conquered since the international withdrawal of troops began. Another district in Afghanistan fell to the militant Islamist Taliban. Local authorities confirmed that the Doab district in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan was handed over to the Taliban without a fight. This means that at least three districts have fallen to the Islamists since Thursday night. Doab had previously been besieged by the Taliban for at least 20 days , said Ismail Atikan MP from Nuristan. The security forces there could not have been supplied with either food or ammunition. Because of this, they would have been forced to leave the district. Through the mediation of the elders in the district, the withdrawal of the army and police units as well as the district administration had been agreed. The Taliban had previously promised not to attack them. With the representatives of the Doab authorities, the district...

On September 11, 2021, the United States will withdraw from Afghanistan after 19 years, 11 months and four days, since the George W. Bush government attacked the Afghan Taliban regime on October 7, 2001.  US President Joe Biden has decided that he will withdraw US troops from Afghanistan on September 11, 2021, on the 20th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks against New York and the Pentagon that led to Washington's military intervention in it. country , in what has been its longest war. This has been assured by three sources familiar with Biden's decision to the Reuters agency. The withdrawal, however, will be made based on security and human rights guarantees, according to the same sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, shortly before the announcement was made. No further details are known about this move. Biden himself is expected to publicly announce his decision and that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will inform NATO allies. ...

Former US President Barack Obama published his memoirs in book form in 1995 entitled 'Dreams from My Father'. He was known at the time as a determined Chicago politician, and in the book he took seriously the need to counter the "dual sense of individual progress and collective decline" in the United States. He made this decision because of his personal losses, racial discrimination and emigration. And now, after a few decades and two terms in office, Obama has revisited his journey as a successful politician. This time, he is preparing to speak on a topic of nation's rise and fall inside and outside US borders that most people shy away from. A Promised Land is the first book in a two-book series. The book contains memoirs of Obama as the 44th President of the United States (2009-2017). These memoirs, written with admirable foresight, focus on the evolution of identity politics in the United States, as well as the extent of US influence in military intervention, c...

Former United States President Barack Obama has said he had no pleasure in ordering drone strikes during his time in which thousands of other lives were lost but could not afford to have a "soft side" against terrorism. In his new memoir, A Promised Land, published on November 17, Barack Obama expressed his views on the loss of innocent lives in drone strikes. A summary published in Business Insider states that Barack Obama claimed that his first chief of staff, Raheem Emmanuel, was "obsessed" with the list of terrorists. Raheem Emmanuel has spent a lot of time in Washington realizing that his new and liberal president does not tolerate a soft corner against terrorism Millions of young people in places like Yemen and Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are fed up with despair, ignorance, the dream of a glorious religious age, violence or the schemes of their elders He said that these youths also became dangerous and often became part of cruel acts knowingly and unknowing...

Former US President Barack Obama has written in his new book, A Promised Land, that after the death of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a naval operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, he thought it was the most difficult phone call. It will happen to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari because after this incident he will be under pressure from all over the country that Pakistan's integrity has been mocked. I was expecting it to be a very difficult call, but when I contacted him, it was not at all Whatever the reaction, it's good news Obama writes that President Asif Ali Zardari was clearly emotional on the phone call and mentioned his wife, Benazir Bhutto, who had been "killed by al-Qaeda-linked militants." In the preface to the book, Barack Obama wrote that when he decided to write the story of his presidency, he thought it would be a 500-page book that he would complete in a year. But after three more years, and 200 more pages, only the first part o...

The United States has decided to give billions of dollars in arms to Taiwan to put pressure on China The United States has approved a $1.8 billion arms deal with Taiwan.  According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the United States has approved the sale of a large shipment of arms to Taiwan to increase pressure on China.  The Pentagon says it has a three-weapon system agreement with Taiwan that includes rocket launchers, sensors and artillery.  In this regard, Taiwan's Ministry of Defense has said that the weapons received from the United States will strengthen Taiwan's response capabilities and strengthen it in a hidden war environment.  According to British media, the deal includes 135 guided cruise missiles, mobile light rocket launchers and spy pods attached to fighter jets.  Tensions between China and Taiwan have risen in recent years, and Beijing has not ruled out using force to retake Iceland.  Remember, China claims that Taiwan is an integra...