Headlines- Ali al-Zaidi, the prime minister of Iraq, said that he had dismissed the commander of the province and ordered an investigation into the operations command in Maysan province, which is located on the Iranian border, after authorities confirmed that the attacks against a pipeline in Saudi Arabia were carried out from a site within the province.
- According to US President Donald Trump, the Houthis called Washington, asking that it refrain from getting involved in the conflict with Yemen's internationally recognized government.
- After a rapid advance against government forces, which retaliated with a series of airstrikes along Yemen's west coast, Iran-aligned Houthi forces have taken complete control of the country's Red Sea coast.
- About 20,000 people protested the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and right-wing hate speech in Düsseldorf under the banner "Not a Step Back!" according to the police.
- The key right-wing opponent of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the election scheduled for next month, Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, is being investigated for alleged money laundering and corruption.
- Friday is the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, which killed 2,977 people at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Tag: Global Military Spending
September 10, 2019
Global Military Spending on the Rise
Today (September 11) the nation remembers the lives lost in the deadliest terror attack on American soil. The President, Vice President and others are attending ceremonies to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed when al-Qaida terrorists highjacked four planes, ramming two into the World Trade Center buildings in New York and one into the Pentagon