The United States welcomes an agreement by Lebanese leaders on Friday to form a new government led by Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, a State Department spokesperson said. “We urge quick approval by the parliament so that this new government can get to work on concrete reforms to address Lebanon’s deteriorating ...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has pushed back against criticism that European allies were not duly consulted ahead of the abrupt US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which has been slammed by critics as nothing short of a “mistake of historic magnitude”. NATO gave its unanimous approval for the withdrawal as far back ...