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Mattis: US Faces ‘Determined Enemy’ in Afghanistan – Voice of America

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that American forces in Afghanistan face a determined enemy but are dealing significant blows to the enemy.

Speaking at a news conference in Copenhagen alongside his Danish counterpart, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, Mattis said both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida are losing ground and power in Afghanistan as the government, under President Ashraf Ghani, wins the affection, the respect and the support of the people.

In Afghanistan, the enemy has lost about two-thirds of its strength and this past weekend, President Ghani announced the death of the emir of IS Khorasan this is the IS group in Nangarhar..., Mattis said. In our anti-IS campaign, were dealing that group one more significant blow with the loss of their leader.

U.S. and Afghan officials announced recently that Abdul Hasib, the head of so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, had been killed in a military raid. He was believed to have been behind an attack that killed 50 people in a Kabul military hospital earlier this year.

Mattis said the United States will continue integrating its military and non-military efforts in Afghanistan and do everything possible to prevent civilian casualties.

We have to remember that the battlefield that we are fighting on is also a humanitarian field where innocent people live right now, sometimes forced to stay on a battlefield by IS, he said.

The comments from Mattis come as U.S. media report the Trump administration may significantly increase the number of U.S. troops and intensity of the fight in Afghanistan.

According to reports, Trump is weighing whether to send as many as 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The U.S. currently has about 8,400 troops stationed in the country.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump has asked military advisers "to relook at the entire strategy" in Afghanistan.

News accounts say the prospective plan would give the Pentagon, not the White House, the final say on the number of troops in Afghanistan, while the U.S. military would have greater range in using airstrikes to target Taliban fighters and remove Obama-era policies limiting the movements of military advisers in the country.

Trump will reportedly make a decision on the Afghanistan policy prior to a May 25 NATO summit in Brussels.

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Iran Leader Vows ‘Slap in the Face’ for Election Disruptions – New York Times

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Iran Leader Vows 'Slap in the Face' for Election Disruptions
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, arriving at a graduation ceremony for Revolutionary Guards cadets in Tehran on Wednesday. At the ceremony, he warned that anyone wanting to take any measure against the country's security in the election ...

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Woman rescues dog from Iran – 10News

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- - A dog seriously injured in Iran is getting a second chance at life in San Diego.

Negar Mirgoli, co-founder of PAWS4Thoughts Animal Rescue, says she rescued a dog named Silver when she was visiting family in Iran.

Mirgoli says someone killed Silver's mom and the rest of her puppies, but somehow Silver survived. The dog is now paralyzed.

"She was left for dead," Mirgoli said. "She didn't have a chance, really, staying back in Iran there wasn't really a chance for her."

Mirgoli brought the 18-month-old Israeli herding dog back to San Diego.

"She literally landed a week ago Wednesday," Mirgoli said. "At LAX the elevator door opens, they push the kennel out, and I'm like 'Ok, I have five bags and a dog. What am I going to do?'"

Babs and Derek Fry offered to foster Silver until she finds her forever home.

"This all happened to her when she was eight weeks old," Babs said. "You know, I get choked up because everything for this dog is new. She has never been outside, she has never been on a car ride, she has never played with a toy."

"Well she just has a heart of gold," Derek said. "She's just a very, very sweet soul."

Despite everything she's been through, Silver continues to heal and learn to love. She was fitted with a wheelchair and is learning to walk using it.

Mirgoli says it's her goal to go back and get more dogs out of Iran.

"The rescuers in Iran, I've been sending them videos and they're over the moon," she said. "The fact that they're like 'this dog made it out.'"

You can donate to help Silver's medical bills here: https://www.gofundme.com/savingoursilver

You can also follow her progress here: https://www.facebook.com/SilversJourney/

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May 10th, 2017

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Iran’s Military Fires Advanced Torpedo Based on Russia’s Fastest in the World – Newsweek

Iran tested Sunday a high-tech torpedo based on a Russian model considered the fastest in the world near the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials.

The Iranian projectile, called "Hoot," is reportedly based off the Soviet-era RussianVA-111 Shkval, which is capable of traveling atmore than 200 miles per hour or four timesthat of a conventional torpedo, according toThe National Interest. Iran's variant was first seen in a low-quality test video in 2006 and was seen again during a military exhibition held by the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 2015. Like the Soviet weapon its based off of, the Hoot was said to achieve these breakthrough speeds using a technique known as supercaptivation that vaporizes the water around the torpedo, according to security analysis group IHS Jane 360.

Related:Iran's military fires new cruise missiles amid Gulf tensions with the U.S.

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The test, which has not been confirmed by Tehran, appeared to be designed to evaluate the projectile's speed as it was not aimed at a target barge, according to U.S, officials cited by ABC News. The missile, which has a range of about 6 miles, requires an advanced guidance system and was capable of traveling more than 250 miles per hour,

Iranian political and military leaders have publicly committed to expanding and modernizing the nation's military prowess in the face of threats by the U.S. and Western-backed Gulf Arab states. Majority-Shiite Muslim Iran and majority-Sunni Muslim Arabian Peninsula states such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar back opposing factions in civil wars in Syria and Yemen and accuse one another of destabilizing the region. These political rivalries have manifested themselves in the nearby waters of the Strait of Hormuz, Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, where local and international forces have carried out military drills and U.S. and Iranian ships have routinely engaged in tense encounters with one another.

Sunday's test was not restricted by the 2015multilateral nuclear treaty signed by the U.S. and Iran nor the U.N. resolutions that discouraged Iran from ballistic missile testing, but couldantagonize the administration of President Donald Trump, who was opposed to the nuclear deal signed by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, and has vowed to take a hardline stance against Tehran. A review ordered by the White House found last month that Iran was in compliance with the terms of the nuclear treaty, which required Iran to severely limit its nuclear energy program, but Secretary of State Rex Tillerson still called the deal a failure and unable to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Iran has denied it was pursuing nuclear weapons and has maintained that its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes. In response to Tillerson's remarks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javid Zarif criticized the "worn-out U.S. accusations" against Iran and urged the U.S. to comply with its end of the deal, for which the U.S. pledged to relieve decades of sanctions against Tehran.

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