The Pentagon announced on Monday (August 5) that it has finished withdrawing all US forces from Air Base 201 in Agadez, Niger. This comes after a year-long demand by the country's coup leaders.

US completes troop withdrawal from Niger's Agadez military base: Pentagon

Pakistan PM Imran Khan has defended US President Joe Biden's decision of US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said that the decision was a 'sensible move.'

Pak PM Imran Khan defends US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan

The United States announced it has completed its withdrawal ending its engagement in Afghanistan which lasted for 20 years and claimed the lives of at least 2,400 US service members.

US completes military withdrawal from Afghanistan

Afghan security forces, with the help of airstrikes, repelled an assault by Taliban fighters on the provincial centre of a key northern province bordering Tajikistan on Sunday, officials said.

Afghan forces repel Taliban assault on provincial capital, governor says

About 5,000 Afghan families have fled their homes in Kunduz after days of fighting between the Taliban and government forces, officials said Saturday, with the insurgents continuing to surround the key northern city.

Thousands displaced by fighting around northern Afghan city

One thing is certain, the recent US military pullback from Saudi Arabia will fuel a brewing arms race in the Middle East at a time when the region, struggling with the public health and devastating economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, can least afford it.

US military drawdown in Saudi Arabia threatens to fuel arms race

By Andrew G Jones A US strike which killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad in January, and the counter-strike by the Iranian military on US targets in Iraq, raised serious questions about the legitimate use of force.

US refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq is a breach of international law

The United States would withdraw almost 5,000 troops from Afghanistan and close five bases within 135 days under a draft peace accord agreed with the Taliban, the chief US negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, said on Monday.

US to withdraw 5,000 troops from Afghanistan, close bases: Zalmay Khalilzad

Sales at Kim Chang-bae's hardware shop in South Korea rise every year thanks to Camp Humphreys, an enormous US military base he is frightened will close in the wake of the summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

South Koreans fearful of 'nightmare' US troop withdrawal