US President Joe Biden announced Monday that the United States had killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks. In a televised address, Biden said the strike in Kabul, Afghanistan had been carried out on Saturday. “I gave the final approval to go get ...
Indonesia and the US began a two-week joint military exercise on Monday that Washington announced aims to advance “regional cooperation in support of a free and open” Asia-Pacific region. Asian and US allies expressed concern about China’s “increasing assertiveness in the Pacific,” but Washington claimed that the drills “were not ...