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Egypt president says future Palestinian state could be demilitarised

Egypt president says future Palestinian state could be demilitarised

A future Palestinian state could be demilitarized and have a temporary international security presence to provide guarantees to both it and Israel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said. "We said that we are ready for this state to be demilitarized, and there can also be guarantees of forces, whether NATO forces, United Nations forces, or Arab or American forces until we achieve security for both states, the nascent Palestinian state and the Israeli state," Sisi said during a joint news conference in Cairo with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. A political resolution which…
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Era ends, war looms as U.S. forces quit main base in Afghanistan

Era ends, war looms as U.S. forces quit main base in Afghanistan

AMERICAN troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan yesterday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they buried 20 years ago in a country that the top U.S. commander has warned may descend into civil war without them. "All American soldiers and members of NATO forces have left the Bagram airbase," said a senior U.S. security official on condition of anonymity. Though a few more troops have yet to withdraw from another base in the capital Kabul, the Bagram pullout brings an effective end to the longest war in American history. The base, an hour's…
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