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Updated February 22, 2021 - 9:45 PM EST

FM: US Sanctions Cost Iran's Economy $1 Trillion

		*Iran Sees Hypocrisy as West Mum on Israel's Nuclear Expansion*
		*IAEA, Iran Reach Deal on Reduced Access for Inspectors*

Biden Pressured To Stay in Afghanistan Indefinitely

US Should Consult Taliban on Afghan Pullout Delay: Pakistani Envoy

Ex-Cop Implicates NYPD, FBI in Malcolm X Murder

US Reaffirms Promise To 'Defend' Saudi Arabia

US India Policy Risks Alliance With Pakistan

Yemen Govt Claims 40 Houthis Killed in Shelling in Maarib

Rockets Hit Baghdad Base With US Contractors Present

Viewpoints

	US Accusation of China 'Genocide' Relied on Baseless Claims by Gareth Porter & Max Blumenthal
	NATO's Expanding Role Hides the Reality of a US Empire in Decline by Scott Ritter
	Why Does Kashmir's Internet Matter, When Kashmiri Lives Don't? by Samreen Mushtaq

	Robert Kagan Thinks Americans Who Don't Want to Run the World Are a Problem by Doug Bandow
	Fauci Champions Israeli Medical Apartheid by Maureen Clare Murphy
	Escalating Cold War With Russia Via Ukraine by Jeremy Kuzmarov
More Viewpoints

Spotlight

Pressure Building on Biden To Keep US Troops in Afghanistan Indefinitely
by Adam Weinstein

Frontline

	Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Denies Role in Libya Mercenary Operation
	How Drones Have Added a New Dynamic to Conflicts
	Trump 'Offered Kim Jong Un a Ride Home on Air Force One'

UAE Weapons Show Draws Major Deals, Traders Amid Pandemic

The War at Home

	Malcolm X's Family Calls to Reopen Investigation Into His Murder
	Revived US Bill Could Help Korean Americans Reunite With North Korean Relatives for First Time Since the War
	DoD Budget 'Bloodletting' Inches Closer to Reality
	Biden Pledged New Missile Defenses, His Pentagon May Be About to Deliver
	Bowe Bergdahl Petitions Federal Court to Have His Case Expunged
	Japan Air Force Officer, US Instructor Killed in US Plane Crash
	Up to 60 USS Lake Champlain Sailors in Isolation After More Than a Dozen on Board Test Positive for Covid-19
	Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group Begins Second Deployment in a Year

Afghanistan

	Ghani Sees 'Window of Opportunity' for Peace Process
	Abdullah Calls on Taliban to Resume Talks
	Two Explosions in Afghanistan Kill at Least Three: Officials
	Three Separate Kabul Explosions Kill Five, Wound Two
	Kabul Residents Carry on Despite Daily Blasts
	One Killed, 14 Wounded in Helmand Blast

Myanmar

	Myanmar Protests: Two People Shot Dead by Police
	Huge Rallies in Myanmar as Backlash Grows Over Protester Killings
	Myanmar Gripped by Strike as Anti-Coup Protests Build
	A 'War Zone': Witnesses Describe Violence at Myanmar Protests
	Myanmar's Minorities Join Protest as Anger Over Death Simmers
	Facebook Shuts Down Myanmar Army 'True News' Page

Asia

	Britain to Challenge China at UN Over Access to Xinjiang
	Thai Protests Outside Parliament After PM Survives Vote
	India May Turn to Iran, Venezuela for Oil Imports

Ethiopia/Sudan

	Witnesses Recall Massacre in Ethiopia City Claimed to Be Home to Ark of Covenant
	Sudan and Ethiopia Trade Barbs Over Border Dispute
	Refugees in Sudan Fly Flag for Ethiopia's Defeated Rebels
	UN: Tigray Malnutrition 'Very Critical', Response Woefully Poor
	Sudan Risks High Prices and Angry Backlash With Radical Currency Change

Somalia

	Doctor Says Five Killed in Somalia's Election-Related Violence
	Somali President Challenged in His Bid to Secure New Term

Africa

	Seven Election Officials Killed in Landmine Blast as Niger Votes
	Turkey-Backed Libyan Interior Minister Survives Assassination Attempt in Tripoli
	Seven Killed as Nigerian Military Aircraft Crashes Near Abuja Airport
	Algeria Releases Dozens of Jailed Pro-Democracy Activists After Presidential Pardons

Iran

	Iran Spokesman Says Tehran Confident About Lifting of US Sanctions Despite Wrangling
	Iran Says Plans to End Snap UN Nuclear Inspections Reversible if US Lifts Sanctions
	White House Says US Communicating With Iran Over Detained Americans

Saudi Arabia

	Saudi Arabia to Invest $20 Billion in Domestic Arms Industry
	Saudi Women Can Join Military in Latest Widening of Rights

Yemen

	UN Says No Progress in Yemen Talks Over Prisoner Swap
	Displaced Yemenis Eke Out Miserable Living by Scavenging

Syria

	Russian Air Strikes 'Kill 21 ISIS Fighters' in Syrian Desert
	In Exchange for Captive, Report Claims Israel Will Buy $1m of Russian Covid Doses for Syria

Iraq

	Iraq Daily Roundup: 11 Killed
	US Forces Not Needed in Iraq: Former PM Maliki
	Iraqi Christian Villagers Decry Turkish Airstrikes
	Mosul's Christians Struggle to Rebuild Destroyed Housing
	Condemnation After Iraqi-Kurd Journalists Given 6 Years in Jail for Criticizing the Govt

Palestine/Israel

	Rival of Palestinian President Delivers Vaccines to Gaza
	PA Says Hamas Has Committed to Peaceful Resistance, Two States
	PA Sends Letter to Biden, Outlining Policies, New Election
	Hamas: 'Israel Will Not Get Its Soldiers Without Prisoner Swap'
	Coronavirus: Israel to Vaccinate 100,000 Palestinian Workers
	Set Up, Demolish, Repeat: Israel Targets Bedouin Tent Community
	Settlers Chop Down Dozens of Olive Trees Near Bethlehem
	In Major Easing of Lockdown Rules, Israel Reopens Stores, Gyms, More Schools
	Abbas Orders Palestinian Public Freedoms Boosted Before Vote
	For This Palestinian Family, Living Next to Al-Aqsa Mosque Comes With a Heavy Price
	Israel's First University-Made Nanosatellite Launches Into Space

Turkey

	Turkey's Erdogan Seeks 'Win-Win' Relationship With US
	Turkish Authorities Launch Probe Against Pro-Kurdish MP Over Militant Links

Russia

	Alexei Navalny's Sentence Upheld by Moscow Court
	Alexei Navalny Fined for 'Defaming' Russian Veteran

Europe

	Peaceful Barcelona Rally for Jailed Rapper Devolves Into Clashes
	Belarus Opposition Leader Admits It Looks Like 'We Have Lost'
	Amsterdam Police Clear Square of Anti-Lockdown Demonstrators
	UK Space Command Could Deploy RAF Jets to the 'Edge of Space'