NEW YORK, Oct 6: The U.S. dollar lost in late trading on Thursday, as U.S. Treasury yields retreated ahead of the release of key U.S. jobs data.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, fell 0.42 percent to 106.3469 in late trading.
NEW YORK, April 8: The U.S. dollar will play a much less dominant role than it is today within the next ten years due to a smaller share of the U.S. economy in the world, weaponization of the U.S. dollar and the use of central bank digital currencies, said a renowned U.S. economist on Friday.
WARSAW, Feb. 7: A plane carrying U.S. soldiers landed in southern Poland on Sunday, on U.S. President Joe Biden's order to deploy additional U.S. troops to Poland, Romania and Germany this week, amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
The 1,700 U.S. soldiers sent to Poland will operate in the country's eastern-southern part, according to the Polish Defense Ministry.
Logistics, equipment and a handful of soldiers arrived on other planes on Friday and Saturday.
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are growing as the Western countries are stepping up military maneuvers near the Russian borders.
Kiev and its Western allies have accused Russia of amassing troops near the Ukrainian border, further pointing to the possibility of an "invasion." Moscow has denied such claims, adding that it had every right to mobilize troops within its borders and defend its national security.
WASHINGTON, August 31 : The U.S. Central Command announced Monday that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has completed, ending 20 years of U.S.-led invasion into the country.
"I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the mission to evacuate American citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable Afghans," Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, announced during a news conference held by the Department of Defense.
"The last C-17 lifted off from Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 30, this afternoon, at 3:29 p.m. East coast time, and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the space above Afghanistan," McKenzie said.
McKenzie said while the completion of withdrawal drew an end to U.S. military presence in the war-torn nation that Washington accused of harboring Al-Qaeda -- the mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attack on American soil in 2001 -- "the diplomatic mission to ensure additional U.S. citizens and eligible Afghans, who want to leave, continues."
While paying tribute to the 2,461 U.S. service members killed -- including the 13 troops lost Thursday to a terror attack aimed at sabotaging the evacuation mission -- and over 20,000 U.S. personnel injured during the longest war Washington has engaged in throughout history, McKenzie also told reporters that no American citizens managed to embark on the final five evacuation flights leaving Kabul, meaning there were still Americans wishing to depart the country that were left on ground.
"We maintained the ability to bring them in up until immediately before departure," McKenzie said. "We would have been prepared to bring them on until the very last minute, but none of them made it to the airport and were able to be accommodated," he added.
The general 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 military's phase of this operation has ended ... The diplomatic sequel to that will now begin," he said, adding that the United States will continue trying to extract the remaining U.S. citizens and "negotiate very hard and aggressively" to get eligible Afghans to come to the United States.
U.S. media cited a State Department official as saying earlier on Monday that it was believed that there were fewer than 250 American citizens who may wish to leave Afghanistan. RSS
KABUL, Aug. 31: The Taliban welcomed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan shortly after the U.S. Central Command announced that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Asian country has completed, a Taliban spokesman said early Tuesday.
The last U.S. soldiers were evacuated from Kabul airport at mid-night on Monday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on social media platform twitter.
"In this way, our country became completely free and independent," he said.
The final evacuation flight was conducted on the last hours of Monday night Aug. 30, airlifting the last U.S. military and non-military personnel back home one day before the Aug. 31 deadline set by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Shortly after Mujahid's comments on social media roughly at 1:00 a.m. Tuesday local time, Taliban members started celebratory gun firing in Afghan capital Kabul, which lasted for about an hour, causing panic in Kabul residents.
Following the firing, Mujahid said in a separate tweet that "the gunshots heard in Kabul are as a result of celebratory firing, the Kabul residents should not worry, we are trying to control it."
The formal stance of the Taliban about the U.S. withdrawal is yet to be made amid the absence of any statement.
The U.S. Central Command announced Monday that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has completed, ending 20 years of U.S.-led invasion into the country.
"I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the mission to evacuate American citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable Afghans," Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, announced during a news conference in Washington, which was held by the Department of Defense.
"The last C-17 lifted off from Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 30, this afternoon, at 3:29 p.m. East coast time, and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the space above Afghanistan," McKenzie said.
While paying tribute to the 2,461 U.S. service members killed -- including the 13 soldiers who lost their lives on Thursday to a terror attack aimed at sabotaging the evacuation mission -- and over 20,000 U.S. personnel injured during the longest war Washington has engaged in throughout history, McKenzie told reporters that no American citizens embarked on the final five evacuation flights leaving Kabul.
The general 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.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27: The head of U.S. Central Command confirmed Thursday that 12 U.S. service members were killed in the attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan earlier in the day, while another 15 were wounded.
Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the U.S. Central Command, told reporters during a press conference at the Defense Department that two bomb attacks happened in the morning in the Afghan capital, one at the Abbey Gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, which was followed by another one at the adjacent Baron Hotel.
"At this time, we know that 12 U.S. service members have been killed in the attack, and 15 more service members have been injured," said McKenzie.
The attacks marked one of the deadliest days in Afghanistan for U.S. forces.
McKenzie said the attack at the Abbey Gate that caused U.S. casualties involved a sole suicide bomber and was followed "by a number of ISIS gunmen who opened fire on civilians and military forces," resulting in Afghan civilian casualties as well. He said details about the Baron Hotel attack were not immediately available.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to a statement from the group's Amaq News Agency cited in multiple reports.
ISIS said in its statement that a suicide bomber "managed to reach a large gathering of translators and collaborators with the American army at 'Baran Camp' near Kabul Airport and detonated his explosive belt among them, killing about 60 people and wounding more than 100 others, including Taliban fighters," according to Reuters.
At one point during the Pentagon press conference, the commander said U.S. forces currently in Afghanistan face "real" threats from terrorist groups, particularly ISIS-K, a radical affiliation of the Islamic State that the Taliban has been fighting against.
McKenzie went on to say that U.S. military officials are aware that the threat to U.S. forces posed by ISIS "is extremely real," adding that "we believe it is their desire to continue those attacks, and we expect those attacks to continue, and we are doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks."
He said U.S. preparedness effort includes "reaching out to the Taliban," whom the Unites States is continuing to coordinate with in the ongoing mission to evacuate U.S. citizens out of Afghanistan.
The evacuation mission "remains" uninterrupted by the blasts, McKenzie said. "We are still committed to flying people out up until we terminate the operations at some point towards the end of the month."
Speaking of searching for and holding those responsible for the attacks to account, McKenzie said "we are working very hard right now to determine attribution, to determine who is associated with this cowardly attack and we're prepared to take action against them."
President Joe Biden, who has been in the White House since the morning monitoring the situation with cabinet officials including the secretaries of state and defense, is scheduled to deliver remarks on the deadly blasts later in the afternoon.
Originally scheduled for Thursday, the president's meeting with Israel's prime minister has been rescheduled for Friday, the White House said.
The attacks came as the United States has been scrambling to evacuate Americans and its Afghan partners from the country since the Taliban entered Kabul on Aug. 15.
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