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Shabaab militants in Somalia. (AFP Photo/Mohamed Abdiwahab)

Trump Grants US Military more Authority in Somalia

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Apr 1, 2017 | World

Washington- President Donald Trump has approved proposals made by generals to boost the US military’s authority to step up air strikes in the fight against al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, the Defense Department has said. “The president has approved a...

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Chain link fence and concertina wire surrounds a deserted guard tower within Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s Camp Delta at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

Trump Eyes Fund for Guantanamo Upgrade

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Mar 20, 2017 | World

Washington- US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the Guantanamo Bay prison will not be shut down and reiterated over the weekend a campaign pledge for putting ISIS “bad dudes” in the detention center in Cuba. Reuters news agency said that Trump is asking...

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Mohamedou Ould Slahi. INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Praises ‘Greatness of American People’

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Mar 18, 2017 | World

Washington – A senior official in the Pentagon said that 41 detainees remained in Guantanamo bay prison, the prosecution of 31 of them has started – including the 10 leaders who plotted September 11 attacks in 2001. Last week, and for the first time, the...

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A US drone lands at Afghanistan’s Jalalabad Airport where a US C-130 military transport plane crashed in Jalalabad on Oct 2, 2015. AFP

White House Mulls Lowering Threshold on Acceptable Civilian Casualties in Drone Strikes

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Mar 15, 2017 | World

Washington- The Trump administration is close to finishing a review that would make it easier for the Pentagon to launch counterterrorism strikes anywhere in the world by lowering the threshold on acceptable civilian casualties and scaling back other constraints...

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Abdelillah Dribigi, chief of security at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., outside the mosque after Friday prayers on March 3. Washington Post

Awlaki Mosques Subjected to Frequent Threats

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Mar 14, 2017 | World

Washington-Within the past two weeks, Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church reported three times it had received threats. The first threat was through an audio record sent to mosque’s phone, the second was sent in an email and the third was through a pig drawn...