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The U.S. military and its civilian leaders are wrong to wage the "New Cold War" by overemphasizing militarized responses to economic and diplomatic challenges, The Diplomat magazine has reported.

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - The U.S. government calls the 50-acre sprawl of tents on this desert Air Force base a "village." The 4,300 Afghans temporarily housed here are the governments "guests."

The U.S. military admitted on Friday that a U.S. drone strike in late August in Kabul of Afghanistan killed as many as 10 civilians, including 7 children.

Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said the number of U.S. citizens currently still stranded in Afghanistan is "in the very low hundreds," stressing that the Department of State is now in charge of assisting those evacuees.

The Taliban has welcomed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan shortly after U.S. Central Command announced that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Asian country has completed.

"U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner," U.S. Central Command Spokesman Bill Urban said in a statement, referring to the terror group affiliated to ISIS that claimed responsibility for Thursdays bombing at Kabuls Hamid Karzai International Airport.

President Joe Biden said the U.S. military could extend its mission in Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31 to evacuate Americans on the ground.

KUWAIT CITY - In the weeks since an American drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, U.S. military leaders have been sprinting to confront a dangerous new reality in the Middle East.

TOKYO - Japan asked for advance consultation regarding any U.S. military action against North Korea.