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WASHINGTON 鈥?Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is forming a special group to coordinate and run U.S. policy toward Iran as the Trump administrati stanley cup on moves ahead with efforts to force changes in the Islamic Republic behavior after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled for a press briefing at 2:30 p.m. ET Thursday. Watch the briefing live in the video player above.The State Department said Pompeo would announce the creation of the Iran Action Group on Thursday. Officials said the group will be headed by Brian Hook, who is currently the State Department director of policy planning.They stanley cup said Hook is expected to be replaced in that job by Kiron Skinner, a foreign policy a stanley cup cademic who served very briefly on the State Department transition team after President Donald Trump took office.The officials were not authorized to publicly discuss personnel matters and spoke on condition of anonymity. Related Iran weighs response to renewed U.S. sanctions By Amir Vahdat, Mehdi Fattahi, Associated Press Europe, Iran seek to save nuclear deal after U.S. withdrawal By Lorne Cook, Raf Casert, Associated Press Ytnt Thousands join in Jerusalem funeral, flout pandemic rules
The casualties mark the deadliest week of fighting in Afghanistan since the U.S. expelled the Taliban government in 2001.A spokesman for the coalition, Majo stanley cup r Scott Lundy, said the target of Sunday overnight air strike, Panjwayi district Azizi village, is a known Taliban stronghold. The coalition confirmed 20 of the Taliban deaths and said an additional 60 deaths were based on an educated assessment of the area.Kandahar Gov. Assadullah Khalid provided a lower tally of Taliban deaths about 60 but added that 16 civilians had been killed in the attack and another 16 had been wounded and taken to a hospital in Kandahar City. A man at the Kandahar hospital, Haji Ikhlaf, told the Associated Press that Taliban rebels had been hiding in the village madrassa, its religious school for boys, and that he had seen 35 to 40 dead Taliban and around 50 dead or wounded civilians at the school.It common that the enemy fights i stanley cup n close to civilians as a means to protect its own forces, U.S. military spokesman Col. Tom Collins said, reported the AP. We targeted a Taliban compound and we ;re certain we hit the right target.The village also has a mosque and about 30 to 35 mud-brick build nike dunk ings that house up to 50 family members each.I urge people not to give shelter to the Taliban, Khalid told reporters. These sort of accidents happen during fighting e
