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Iranpress: World Newspapers: US military leaders call Afghan exit ‘strategic failure’

World Newspapers: US military leaders call Afghan exit ‘strategic failure’

Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:28

The US Pentagon leaders who presided over the Afghanistan war’s conclusion said Tuesday that they had predicted Kabul’s government and its military would “collapse” after the United States’ departure but refused to fault President Biden for withdrawing US forces, even as they agreed the haphazard exit was a “strategic failure.” 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Afghan forces ponder failures

World Newspapers: Afghan forces ponder failures

Sunday, 26 September 2021 20:52

Building Afghanistan’s national security forces was one of the most ambitious and expensive aspects of two decades of US-led war. It resulted in failure. The United States spent billions of dollars training and equipping police, soldiers and special forces. Despite years of warnings from US and Afghan officials, successive US administrations pledged that the Afghan military was capable of defending the country. President Biden said the Afghan military was “as well-equipped as any army in the world” just a month before its collapse. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Pfizer says shot safely benefits children 5 to 11

World Newspapers: Pfizer says shot safely benefits children 5 to 11

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 21:00

The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in children ages 5 to 11, the companies announced early Monday. The news sets the stage for authorization of the vaccine for younger children, possibly before the end of October. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Uncertain guidelines, COVID surge test schools

World Newspapers: Uncertain guidelines, COVID surge test schools

Tuesday, 14 September 2021 21:07

As more than 55 million children and teens across the US pour back into classrooms this fall, a real-life experiment is taking place on whether schools can stay open safely amid the aggressive spread of the delta variant. 214 President Biden said he would do everything in his power to get as many students as possible back in school. But that promise is being tested by the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus, which has infected more kids in the opening weeks for some schools than in all of last year while forcing nearly 1,700 temporary closures, according to Burbio, a data firm that tracks school reopenings.

Iranpress: World Newspapers: DOJ to protect abortion in US Texas

World Newspapers: DOJ to protect abortion in US Texas

Tuesday, 07 September 2021 21:13

The US Justice Department is exploring “all options” to challenge Texas’s restrictive abortion law, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday, as he vowed to provide support to abortion clinics that are “under attack” in the state and to protect those seeking and providing reproductive health services. 214

Iranpress: Iran Newspapers: Raisi says he is open to talks on lifting sanctions

Iran Newspapers: Raisi says he is open to talks on lifting sanctions

Monday, 06 September 2021 11:08

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said: "We do not oppose useful negotiations, but the plan and result of negotiations must be the lifting of sanctions against Iran."

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Ida inflicts death, ruin on Northeast

World Newspapers: Ida inflicts death, ruin on Northeast

Friday, 03 September 2021 21:08

Ida in the US had long since lost its hurricane status, but the storm that powered down New Orleans and forced thousands from their homes last weekend doused the New York-new Jersey area with near-biblical bursts of rain Wednesday night, killing more than 40 people, paralyzing transportation and raising alarms about the region’s ability to handle a new wave of intense weather. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Biden declares end to war, defends exit

World Newspapers: Biden declares end to war, defends exit

Wednesday, 01 September 2021 21:24

US President Biden declared Tuesday that “the war in Afghanistan is now over” in an address that was less a celebration of a mission accomplished than a somber eulogy for a 20-year endeavor that cost the country much but whose burden was borne by few. 205/214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: America exits Afghanistan

World Newspapers: America exits Afghanistan

Tuesday, 31 August 2021 21:08

The United States ended its longest war in history, and its 20-year presence in Afghanistan, as the last US aircraft took off at one minute before midnight from Kabul airport Monday carrying all remaining American troops and diplomats. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Beijing sows virus theory, US military lab is villain

World Newspapers: Beijing sows virus theory, US military lab is villain

Friday, 27 August 2021 20:22

A new wave of disinformation follows President Biden’s order for the United States to investigate the origin of the pandemic, including the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan. 207

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