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Anonymous ID: ca7c6f Dec. 1, 2020, 1:37 p.m. No.11860608   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Lebanon's central bank can only keep subsidising basic goods for two more months, Governor Riad Salameh said on Tuesday, adding that it was up to the state to come up with a plan.

 

https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1333870061421998081

Anonymous ID: ca7c6f Dec. 1, 2020, 1:42 p.m. No.11860686   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Head of US fight against Islamic State quits in further defense jolt

 

of Mosul, Iraq, more than two weeks after taking over the country's second largest city, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo)

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The civilian official overseeing the Pentagon’s campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in the Middle East has resigned in the latest jolt to Pentagon leadership in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.

 

The Pentagon said in a statement that the acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller, on Monday accepted the resignation of Christopher Maier, who had provided policy oversight of the military’s counter-IS effort since March 2017.

 

Maier was director of the Defeat-ISIS Task Force, which has been disbanded. Its responsibilities have been absorbed by counterterrorism staffs headed by appointees whom US President Donald Trump placed in senior Pentagon positions in a shakeup that included his firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper on November 9.

 

Maier’s departure was first reported by CNN. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Maier had been forced out.

 

In its statement, the Pentagon gave no reason for Maier’s departure but said the decision to disband the task force he led was a recognition of the “success of the military fight to destroy” the Islamic State’s grip on territory in Iraq and Syria. Critics say that while the militant group has lost its physical empire, it remains a threat and has been biding its time in search of ways to regroup and re-emerge.

 

“The Department of Defense will continue to engage with our partners and allies to ensure the lasting defeat of ISIS and encourage the repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters for prosecution,” the Pentagon said.

 

https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-us-fight-against-islamic-state-quits-in-further-defense-jolt/