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Your Gateway to Afghanistan & the Region Monday, July 20, 2020 Issue No. 810 www.heartofasia.af 10 afs WJ refers 4 officials to AGO in embassy wall corruption case Ambassador to the US Roya Police arrest 16 Rahmani should be referred to the criminals in AGO for more investigation. “The above mentioned individuals if The Afghan National Police (ANP) present in the country should be put operations team has arrested 16 on Exist Control List and individuals suspects in Kabul and its surrounding accused in this corruption case and districts, the capital police said on stay in the foreign should be brought Sunday. to the country with the support of “Sixteen suspects involved in different Interpol.” criminal cases were arrested by ANP in Earlier, Meshrano Jirga decided Kabul city Police Districts and districts to refer four government officials, on outskirts of within including two presidential advisors, the last several days,” the police said to the Attorney General Office (AGO) in a statement. over corruption in reconstruction The arrestees were taken to the Kabul of the Afghan Embassy wall in police headquarters for screening and Washington. possible legal process, the statement According to Pajhwok Afghan added. News investigative report, the The ANP also seized three rounds of Afghanistan Embassy in the United weapons, a knife, a stolen oil truck and States reconstructed its boundary a stolen sedan during the operations, wall measuring 70 meters at a cost that were part of preventive measures Wolesi Jirga’s (WJ) Justice on Exit Control List and arrest those in which massive corruption took of around 1,825,839 US dollars after being adopted to ensure a high level Commission has referred four outside the country with the support place a decision was reached after its reconstruction for $88,000 was of security and safety in the national people, including two presidential of Interpol. hearing concerned authorities and rejected by the embassy. capital with nearly 5 million population. advisors and Afghanistan’s In an official letter No. 139 on July, it was decided that the case should For building the 70-meter wall, ambassador to the US, to the 19, 2020 of Wolesi Jirga’s Justice be referred to the AGO for more KADCON Corporation has been given Attorney General Office (AGO) in Commission a copy of which investigation and inspection. $1,586,000, VIKA Company received connection to corruption allegations available with Pajhwok Afghan In the letter explained that former $12,750 for survey, ECS received in the reconstruction of embassy News says after hearing from Finance Ministers Humayon $12,250 for soil test, KCE received wall in Washington DC. officials of the Ministry of Foreign Qayyumi, presidential Advisor $64,839 for technical advices and The Commission also demanded to Affairs regarding the reconstruction Sargand, Finance Ministry Advisor DLA Piper received $150 for making put the names of accused officials of embassy wall in Washington DC Yama Nizam and Afghanistan’s contracts and legal consultation. Afghanistan’s Afghan dried fruit Further reports of Australian war Sphageeza consignment lands League to Begin on in China crimes in Afghanistan emerge September 13 in Kabul The first consignment of Afghanistan’s transit trade items has reached China As the nation awaits the findings of The seventh edition of the through the Shahid Beheshti port an investigation into war crimes in Shpageeza Cricket League in Chabahar, a media report said on Afghanistan, there’s new evidence will begin on September 13, Sunday. that Australian Forces killed up to 10 unarmed Afghan civilians during a Afghanistan Cricket Board said on Afghanistan’s first transit shipment of 2012 raid in Province. Saturday. dried fruit was sent to Tianjin Port in China, Mehr News Agency quoted a Australian sources and Afghan The tournament will run for two senior Iranian official as saying. witnesses have told the ABC, that weeks and the final will happen Behrouz Aghaei, the director-general both civilians and members of the on September 25, with all the of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Taliban were shot during the raid, into executing an elderly, unarmed back to SAS headquarters in Perth, matches set to be played at Kabul Maritime Organisation, said the cargo including a group of unarmed man as part of an initiation, or to be used as a novelty beer drinking had been sent to the Indian port of villagers near a tractor. Cricket Stadium. “blooding ritual”. vessel. Mundra via Chabahar. These are not the first allegations The tournament has six teams - It was reported that on the same Braden Chapman, the man behind Afghanistan also sent three transit of this kind. Earlier this year the mission, an unarmed Afghan civilian the story, says he was warned by Amo Sharks, Band-e Amir Dragons, trade consignments to via the ABC released a documentary called with a prosthetic leg was targeted another longer-serving member of Boost Defenders, Kabul Eagles, Shahid Beheshti port last month, the ‘The Killing Fields’ which detailed and callously hunted down by the forces, shortly after joining the Mis Ainak Knights and Spin Ghar official added. further atrocities, including three alleged incidents that a former SAS members of the SAS team. The man squadron in Uruzgan province that Tigers. Mis Ainak Kights won the signals intelligence officer, who was was allegedly then kicked off a cliff at times troops weren’t necessarily tournament last year. deployed with the 3 Squadron SAS while handcuffed, causing severe operating within the expected The broadcasting rights agreement in 2012, called ‘murder.’ injuries but not killing him. A senior guidelines. Chapman further alleges for the tournament was bagged One of the reported incidents soldier allegedly then directed that Australian troops also destroyed by National Radio Television of involved a soldier on his first others to “get him out of his misery.” people’s homes and infrastructure, The man was allegedly executed and blew up private cars and shot Afghanistan (RTA). ... P3 deployment to Afghanistan being pressured by higher-ranking officers his plastic leg souvenired and taken animals. ... P2 July 20, 2020 Heart of Asia NATIONAL MONDAY 2 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Further reports... By EMRAN FEROZ International pressure After the programme aired, international organisation, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the Australian Defence Afghan Warlord’s Promotion Highlights Minister, Linda Reynolds calling for the Defence Department to reexamine previously dismissed cases of alleged summary executions and other the Bankruptcy of America’s Longest War war crimes in Afghanistan in light of new evidence. And more recently, footage emerged of an SAS When Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and soldier hunting down an unarmed Afghan civilian, Abdullah Abdullah, his main political standing over him while he is defenceless on the opponent, signed a power-sharing deal in May, ground, asking his fellow officer “You want me to it ended eight months of bitter post-election drop this cunt,” then executing him. dispute. It also came with a disturbing price tag, The long-awaited IDGAF Report one hashed out among rounds of backroom The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence deals, tense negotiations, and desperate Force (IGADF) has spent the past four years U.S. attempts to keep the government from investigating reports of war crimes committed imploding. Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ghani’s by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. vice president until last year and one of the The investigation involves an assessment of more country’s most notorious warlords, demanded than 55 separate incidents of alleged breaches of the ‘rules of war’ between 2005 and 2016, and a promotion to the rank of marshal, only so far, more than 330 people have so far given awarded twice before in Afghan history. Ghani, evidence to the inquiry. who’d long vowed to clean out the warlords, The IGADF report is expected to be delivered complied. within weeks. Human Rights watch has also called Dostum, whose militias are believed to have on the Defence Minister to release the full IGADF carried out one of the most notorious war report when it becomes available, in the public crimes in modern Afghan history during the interest, and to ensure appropriate accountability. early days of the U.S.-led invasion, embodies “such accusations will not harm the Marshal.” large parts of the country to armed militias— It also urged the Australian government to cease much of what’s gone wrong in contemporary According to an official of Ghani’s government, such as Dostum’s—with negligible government all legal action against those who reported these Afghanistan—and especially the failed promise “the President issued Dostum’s promotion, oversight. incidents, including whistleblowers, lawyers, and that the U.S. invasion would help create a but it was not his [Ghani’s] decision. It was Warlords have existed throughout journalists acting in the public interest, should cleaner, more transparent, more democratic part of an agreement which was proposed by Afghanistan’s history, but they reached a peak be dropped. state. Dostum still stands accused of torturing Abdullah,” he told Foreign Policy. in the 1990s as different factions, including Whistleblowers are punished, not protected and ordering the rape of a political rival while “Bestowing on Dostum the title of marshal— Dostum’s, fought each other for control of There are growing fears here and internationally that the Australian government is failing to in office as recently as 2016. After swift Western after President Ghani vowed to have him territory and resources. Warlords and their address the issue of alleged war crimes committed condemnation, Dostum fled to Turkey, where prosecuted—illustrates yet again the abuses even helped create the Taliban: After by Special Forces in Afghanistan in an open and he enjoys a good relationship with President complete failure of the Afghan government one local warlord and his militiamen captured upfront manner, instead preferring to introduce Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It wasn’t his first flight to deliver justice,” said Patricia Gossman, and repeatedly raped two young girls, a mullah a range of legislation that will punish anyone who to Turkey: In 2008, too, he’d sheltered in Ankara an associate Asia director at Human Rights gathered some of his students to attack the dares to speak out as well as those who provide a amid similar accusations that his men had Watch. “Dostum is only part of the sordid warlord’s fort. The then-unknown man was forum for them to do so. abducted, beaten, and sexually assaulted a picture of impunity in Afghanistan, as no Mullah Mohammad Omar, who soon became In the meantime, former Australian Defence Force political opponent. powerful political figures have been held the supreme leader of the newly formed group lawyer David McBride who was one of the original But instead of being prosecuted, Dostum accountable for crimes including torture, rape of militant students, or Taliban. whistleblowers regarding the actions of Australian is being promoted: His ascent to marshal and murder. These cases make clear why the Dostum’s kaleidoscopic loyalties were soon soldiers in Afghanistan is still fighting a legal battle became effective this week. While many critics, International Criminal Court should carry out on full display. In the early 1990s, Dostum which could see him imprisoned for 50 years. both Afghans and non-Afghans, observed the its investigation in Afghanistan.” and his militia were an effective, bloody force He has pleaded not guilty to five charges, which ceremony with indignation, Afghan media Dostum’s career, and this week’s crowning targeting rural communities with ties to the consist of one count of the theft of Commonwealth shrugged, while the warlord’s supporters promotion, illustrate the role that warlords mujahideen. Then, in 1992, Dostum turned property, three counts of breaching defence legislation and another count of unauthorised celebrated the promotion. have played in shaping—and distorting— on his former boss Najibullah, preventing disclosure of information, relating to him handing “I send congratulations to all of Afghanistan,” the fabric of modern Afghanistan. Dostum, the recently ousted president from leaving over classified military documents to ABC said Mawlavi Baharuddin Jowzjani, a cleric and an ethnic Uzbek, made his career in the the country. As Afghanistan became mired in journalists in 2016. These were the basis of the high-ranking official of Dostum’s party, in an 1980s, during the presidency of Mohammad a bloody civil war that later gave rise to the ABC documentary, The Afghan Files, which was interview with Tolo News about the warlord’s Najibullah, Afghanistan’s last communist Taliban, Dostum allied abruptly with each of the reason that the AFP raided the Sydney offices promotion. On social media, Dostum’s son leader. Najibullah, locked in a bitter fight the factions in turn. His militia, the Junbish- of the national broadcaster last year. Batur Dostum bristled at criticism and said, against mujahideen, outsourced security in e-Milli, became notorious for ... P3

By Dashel Pierson Afghanistan’s Sphageeza... Behold, River Surfing in Afghanistan “High quality broadcasting of the league is our priority and I am pleased that ACB and RTA Afghanistan is a landlocked nation, but in Afghanistan – by training with the where you’ve got so many other problems, could collaborate again for the same purpose deep in the Hindu Kush mountains there’s country’s premier female surfer Urzala it would have been quite a risky thing to after a successful sixth edition last year,” ACB a fickle, barely rideable river wave. It ain’t Weiss, advocating for an artificial wave put that much money in it. Plus, right CEO Lutfullah Stanikzai said. much; but it’s their best shot at a domestic in his homeland, and keeping the dream now there might not be the market in the surf spot. alive to one day see an Afghan surfer in country to see positive returns. “It is a pleasing news that we get to collaborate And back in 2018, a crew set out to surf it. the Olympics. Anyway, we’ve been looking at this static with ACB again. RTA always strives for quality Afridun “Afri” Amu, Afghanistan’s first-ever To hear more about what he’s been up to wave in Austria. This is actually super easy when it comes to broadcasting matches to our surfer to compete in the ISA, was on that since that groundbreaking session in the tech to use and one of the engineers in cricket fans,” Himatullah Niazmand said on mission along with Canadian and German Hindu Kush mountains, magicseaweed’s charge of that wave was one of the guys behalf of RTA. river surfers, Jacob Kelly Quinlan and Ben Jason Lock called up Afri, who’s been with me, surfing that wave in Afghanistan Top Afghan players, including the likes of Rashid Di-Qual. For Afri, the operation had special holed up in Germany during the COVID-19 when we went in 2018. significance, since, as a kid, his family fled pandemic. Check out their chat below. He said it was something we can easily Khan and Mohammad Nabi, resumed training to Europe where he learned to surf. For Definitely, there was quite a lot that implement in Afghanistan, so this is last month at the Kabul Cricket Stadium, him, it was his first strike mission in his progressed. You know, I’m talking pre- something we’re working on right now. focusing on strengthening batting, bowling and home country. But, as imagined in a war- COVID of course. That’s not an Afghan Trying to build such a wave – we might be overall performance of the team. torn and non-surfing nation, the journey thing, that’s a worldwide thing. Before all able to do it in the next year. Build it and it’s Apart from competing at the T20 World Cup, came with some complications. the corona stuff I was training with a Urzala not actually as dangerous as it first seems. “We were surfing that wave and amongst Weiss, a female Afghan surfer because she I was in Austria with a filmer and we whose fate is still shrouded in uncertainty, all the cheering and the surrounding wants to compete in the ISA World Games. recorded a lot and we’re trying to get Afghanistan are scheduled to play a lone Test locals, one guy takes out a gun and Together with her, we were training in someone to fund it – we are almost there against Australia in Perth, starting 21 November. points it at us,” Afri told magicseaweed. Indo, and we got invited by Chris Moore, with that, we think. That’s a cool thing. List of players part of the training camp: Asghar “I had no clue what and why that was Carissa’s father, to go and train on Oahu. How did the training in Hawaii go? Afghan (C), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hazrathullah happening. Luckily the locals we were He’s such a cool dude and really wants Just before that actually, I was training with Zazai, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah with could calm down that crazy guy and to help build up the Afghan surfing Laird Hamilton, he does that XPT training – eventually everything went fine. But still, community. It was my first time on the it’s like breath work for stressful moments Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Naveen in that moment, everything could have North Shore. It was crazy. and surfing big waves. For moments when ul Haq, Shapoor Zadran, Qais Ahmad, Mujeeb exploded.” So, train the kids to swim first – but where everything has to be on point. ur Rahman, Azmatullah Omerzai, Samiullah Since that first strike mission, a film titled would they go surfing? Is that because you’re planning on surfing Shinwari, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Shahzad, Unsurfed Afghanistan documenting Well, the next step in this is to build an big waves? Sayed Shirzad, Darwish Rasooli, Zahir Khan the trip has been slowly making its artificial wave in Afghanistan. You know Couple of things [laughs]. It was for way to the big screen. And Afri’s been better than I do, it seems to be super training for the World Games. But yes, I’m Paktin, Farid Malik, Hamza Hotak and Sharafudin doing his damndest to promote surfing expensive, so, in a country like Afghanistan totally into bigger waves. ... P3 Ashraf. July 20, 2020 Heart of Asia ECONOMY MONDAY 3 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Turkey suspends flights to Iran, Exchange Rates Afghanistan amid COVID-19 outbreak 76.1 76.2 82.1 82.2 Turkey has suspended all flights to Iran were working toward reopening their and Afghanistan as part of measures borders for travelers. against the coronavirus outbreak, the In what took many by surprise was 91.1 92.2 Transport and Infrastructure Ministry Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s said on Sunday. statements on Saturday when he 476 477 A spokesman for Iran’s Civil Aviation estimated that as many as 25 million Organization, Reza Jafarzadeh, earlier Iranians could have been infected with 19.6 19.7 on Sunday said Turkey halted all flights the coronavirus since the outbreak’s to Iran until further notice amid the beginning. outbreak in the country, according The 25 million figure put forward 890 900 to the official IRNA news agency. by Rouhani is nearly a third of the The suspension of flights began on population and massively higher than Saturday, Jafarzadeh said. the official number of COVID-19 cases. in the ministry. “It is not possible to On the other hand, some 35,229 Turkey had gradually restarted Official case numbers rose to 273,788 rely on serological tests to diagnose COVID-19 cases have been officially Contact Numbers international flights as of June 11 as it on Sunday, with 14,188 deaths, Health the current state of the disease,” the reported in Afghanistan as of Sunday. eased lockdown measures. Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari statement said. The death toll in the country stood at Kabul Police - Iran has been hardest hit by the said. Parliament deputy Alireza Salimi called 1,147, according to government figures. 119 pandemic in the Middle East, with Iranian health officials sought on on the government to come up with a The Afghan Red Crescent Society last Kabul Ambulance - 112 infections and deaths rising sharply Sunday to play down the president’s single official figure for coronavirus week said the country was “on the edge since restrictions were eased, beginning estimate, saying it was based on cases. of potential health, social and economic Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital in mid-April. serological blood tests that measure A coronavirus task force official said catastrophes” as growing COVID-19 0202301360 The border between Turkey and Iran exposure to the illness and that cannot Saturday the 25 million were “mildly cases stretch a health infrastructure was closed after the outbreak. It has be relied on to show the current state affected patients who ... did not need already severely weakened by decades Ata Turk Hospital been reopened for trade only. of disease. to seek medical advice.” of war. 0202500312 During their meeting in Istanbul in mid- A Health Ministry statement carried In announcing the 25 million estimate, It said the real toll of the pandemic Corona call center - June, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt by Iranian news media said the figure Rouhani did not say what the figure was on the Afghan population is expected 166 Çavuşoğlu and his Iranian counterpart given by the president was based based on but added that 30 million-35 to be much higher and remains Javad Zarif said the two countries on numbers produced by a deputy million more were possibly at risk. underreported due to limited testing.

Behold, River... Afghan Warlord’s... who are gaining in numbers whitewashed by the country’s I don’t want to pretend I’m surfing crazy, big waves right looting, raping, torturing, and and audacity just months after political elite. now. But I’ve always been passionate about bigger waves – killing. He ruled his own personal signing a peace deal with the “There is not the slightest doubt either you like it or you don’t. For me, it’s one of the craziest fiefdom in the country’s north departing Americans. that Dostum has committed feelings in surfing dropping in bigger waves. That’s a thing I until the Taliban dismantled it Apart from accusations of war crimes and had former or want to explore more. And what better person to work with in 1998. torture and rape against political current political allies brutally than Laird. Laird was kinda a hero when I was younger and Three years later, he seized his opponents, Dostum’s militia assaulted,” said Thomas Ruttig, I couldn’t turn down an opportunity to work with him. He chance to return—and to rebuild continued to attack civilians in a co-director of the Afghanistan was as superhuman as I thought he was going to be, but at his power. After the terrorist northern Afghanistan. In several Analysts Network. “But among the same time, amazed at how down to earth he is. Really attacks of Sept. 11, 2001— cases, Pashtun villagers were the warlords active in the 1990s, interested in Afghan surfing. murdered and injured under he has often been singled out as That’s rad to meet one of your heroes… carried out by al Qaeda, which [Laughs.] Yeah you know, in a way, I had the same thing with was under Taliban protection the pretext of “anti-Taliban particularly bad. From my point Kelly Slater too. Met him at the World Surfing Games. He was at the time—Dostum, like operations” by Dostum’s men. of view, he was just an easier surfing the heat before me. But we ended up playing chess many other returning warlords, According to witnesses, several target as he had been associated together. He was really into it and talking about endgames embraced the U.S. campaign villages were terrorized by the with the former Communist and fooling around. in Afghanistan. It was in the militiamen who faced total government.” Did you offer to play him? early days of the subsequent impunity thanks to Dostum’s Other warlords have been I did! I think he had just recently picked it up – I gave him U.S.-led war that Dostum and position as vice president. beyond any public criticism some tactical puzzles and showed him some endgame. He his men allegedly carried out Then, in mid-May, Ghani made in Afghanistan, while some of still owes me a game though. He was super competitive… the massacre of Dasht-e-Leili, clear that one of the prices of them have more real power but super humble and engaged with everything. [Laughs.] in which hundreds, perhaps securing political peace was to than Dostum’s often ceremonial That’s rad to meet one of your heroes… even thousands, of Taliban throw another bone to a man titles, Ruttig said. [Laughs.] Yeah you know, in a way, I had the same thing with prisoners were reportedly who littered Afghanistan with But for many jaundiced Kelly Slater too. Met him at the World Surfing Games. He was tortured and executed while in so many. While large parts observers, men like Dostum surfing the heat before me. But we ended up playing chess of the country are controlled would not have seen such an together. He was really into it and talking about endgames transit to Sheberghan prison, and fooling around. Dostum’s stronghold in northern or contested by a resurgent upswing in their fortunes without Did you offer to play him? Afghanistan. Sealed containers Taliban, high-ranking politicians years of U.S. intervention in the I did! I think he had just recently picked it up – I gave him held 200 to 300 prisoners each. gathered in Jowzjan, Dostum’s country. some tactical puzzles and showed him some endgame. He Reports from survivors of the home province in northern “How can anyone have faith in still owes me a game though. He was super competitive… transports described bound Afghanistan, to pin on Dostum’s a government that overlooks but super humble and engaged with everything. [Laughs.] men, locked in the containers new gold-braid shoulder boards. war crimes, or worse, elevates That’s rad to meet one of your heroes… for several days without food Oddly, the only man missing its war criminals to the highest [Laughs.] Yeah you know, in a way, I had the same thing with or drink, resorting to licking the from the ceremony was Ghani positions of public office?” Kelly Slater too. Met him at the World Surfing Games. He was sweat off each other’s bodies and himself—perhaps because said Erik Edstrom, a former surfing the heat before me. But we ended up playing chess even biting into other prisoners’ Dostum’s latest act of political U.S. soldier and author of the together. He was really into it and talking about endgames bodies in their desperation to rehabilitation was a direct recently published book Un- and fooling around. obtain fluids from any source. repudiation of the very visions of American: A Soldier’s Reckoning Few survived. The veteran governance that the professor- of Our Longest War. Pakistani journalist Ahmed turned-president laid out in his Edstrom, who deployed in Rashid described the massacre 2008 book, Fixing Failed States. 2009 as an infantry lieutenant as “the most outrageous and “The political elite of Afghanistan in Afghanistan, has become an Chief Editor : M. Hamid Hamdard brutal human rights violation of had a rare opportunity to found outspoken critic of the legacy a functioning state,” he and of American intervention, and Reporters: Safiullah Nasary, Shafiq Amirzay, the entire war.” The next year, Dostum received his co-author wrote. “Most of he links the promotion of the Jawad Temori & Hameedullah Hamidi not censure, but his first big them, however, chose to put likes of Dostum directly to Graphic & Design: Arman promotion to general, a gift from private before public interest Washington’s involvement in the pro-American government and carried on with their faction the country. 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That helped usher gain.” war criminals and turns a in a new era of warlordism in a Of course, many observers argue blind eye towards atrocities is Email: [email protected] country still recovering from that Dostum’s promotion, while a government that promotes Address: Behind Rahman Baba High School the civil war, and it helped jarring, simply reveals a much hypocrisy, cynicism, and broader pattern of war crimes distrust,” he told Foreign Policy. - Opposite to 3rd District, undermine trust and belief in the government, which ultimately and impunity in Afghanistan, “The hypocrisy around war Kabul - Afghanistan helped pave the way for the where warlords like Dostum are crimes is a feeling that unites Print: Waygal Printing .Co - +93 - 202512626 recent resurgence of the Taliban, celebrated and their histories Americans and Afghans, alike.” July 20, 2020 WORLD MONDAY Heart of Asia 4 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Two missiles hit area near U.S. embassy in central Baghdad - TV Two missiles hit Baghdad’s available. Green Zone, near the US According to the television embassy, Iraq’s Al Sumaria channel, the missile attack television channel reported was staged when Iranian on Thursday. Foreign Minister Mohammad One more missile fired at Javad Zarif was visiting the central Baghdad exploded Iraqi capital. At the very in another quarter of the moment of the attack, the Green Zone, Al Sumaria Iranian top diplomat was said citing a source in the finishing a series of talks Iraqi security agencies. with the Iraqi top officials According to the source, it in the Green Zone. was impossible to spot the The Green Zone, or the site where the missiles had International Zone, is a been fired from. heavy guarded diplomatic No data about casualties or and government area in damages were immediately Baghdad.

A look at the world Trump refuses to Turkish-made robot France to compel commit to accepting used to destroy people to wear face November election explosives in Libya masks in closed public results spaces United States President Donald Trump People in France will be compelled to wear refused to publicly commit to accepting face-masks in closed public spaces from the results of the upcoming presidential Monday, a measure to stem the coronavirus election in November, while also declining transmission in the country. to say if the Confederate flag was an It was revealed by the country’s Health offensive symbol. Directorate - Direction générale de la Santé, In an interview with Fox News host Chris also knows as DGS - to news agency AFP Wallace broadcast on Sunday, Trump said on Sunday. it was too early to make such an ironclad Venues concerned include meeting and Shigal guarantee, echoing a similar threat he made performance halls, cinemas, restaurants, English Academy weeks before the 2016 vote and scoffing at hotels, game rooms, educational centres, recent polls that show him lagging behind holiday centres, libraries, places of worship, presumptive Democratic candidate Joe indoor sports venues, museums, stations Biden. A Turkish-made robot was used to safely and airports. detonate improvised explosive devices (IED) and destroy ammunition in Libya. Bomb squad teams effectively used the TMR 2 (Kutlu) for safe disposal of the dangerous material in the capital Tripoli, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Twitter. Easy The ministry also posted footage of a Turkish soldier using the robot to do the job by remote control. Attacks by warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces English – who sought to capture Tripoli – have left their mark on Libyan cities. Libya has been torn by civil war since the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Libya’s Learning new government was founded in 2015 under a UN-led agreement, but efforts for a long- term political settlement failed due to a “I have to see. Look ... I have to see,” Trump military offensive by Haftar’s forces. “Stores, shopping centres, administrations, said. “No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m The UN recognizes the Libyan government banks and covered markets” have also been not going to say no, and I didn’t last time headed by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, added to the list, the DGS said, while masks Dehbori, 2nd Street Behind either.” based in Tripoli, as the country’s legitimate remain mandatory on public transport too. The Biden campaign responded: “The authority. President Emmanuel Macron said on Park, 3rd District, Kabul American people will decide this election. Turkey supports the Tripoli government and July 14 that face-masks would become And the United States government is signed a security cooperation agreement obligatory from August 1, but the date was perfectly capable of escorting trespassers with it last November. quickly brought forward amid concerns out of the White House.” Also, The Yemeni army said on Sunday a expressed by scientists after “slight signs” +93 (0) 789 98 9696 While considered remarkable that a sitting rebel commander was killed in clashes in of a resurgence in the virus. president would express less than complete the southern Ad Dali’ province. “The health situation in France (excluding confidence in American democracy’s The army’s September Net website said Mayotte and Guyana which are still electoral process, the statement follows Ali Mohamed Ali al-Zarqi was killed, along undergoing the first wave), after several [email protected] Trump’s playbook of four years ago, when with a number of Houthi rebels, in the city weeks of decline and stabilization of in the closing stages of his race against of Qa’taba in the province. the epidemic, shows signs of a slight Hillary Clinton he said he would not commit According to the website, Yemeni forces deterioration, but still uncertain”, the DGS Shigal English Academy to honouring the election results if the carried out a surprise attack on the rebels, stated, as it urged everyone to be vigilant Democrat won. leaving a number of them dead and to avoid an “epidemic rebound”. Pressed during an October 2016 debate injured, but did not give an exact number The date was brought forward also because about whether he would abide by the of casualties. of worries the virus might spread in the air - www.shigal.edu.af voters’ will, Trump responded he would There was no comment from Houthi rebels a possibility the World Health Organisation “keep you in suspense”. on the claim. did not rule out.