August 2022

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 15, 2022) for CSS, PMS

6. Republicans fear US rivals could exploit ex-Afghan commandos

• Former Afghan security personnel with sensitive knowledge of US operations left behind by the American evacuation operation are vulnerable to recruitment or coercion by Russia, China and Iran, Republican lawmakers said on August 14, 2022, noting that President Joe Biden`s administration failed to prioritise evacuating them.
• `This is especially true given reports that some former Afghan military personnel have fled to Iran, minority Republicans of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee said in a report on the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul


7. Kuwait names first envoy to Iran in over six years

• Kuwait has appointed an ambassador to Iran, both countries said on August 14, 2022, more than six years after recalling its top envoy to Tehran in solidarity with Saudi Arabia after it severed ties with the Islamic Republic in 2016.
• Ambassador Bader Abdullah Al-Munaikh handed his credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in Tehran on Saturday, Iran`s foreign ministry said on its website.
• Kuwait`s foreign ministry confirmed Munaikh was appointed envoy to Iran.
• Iran already has an ambassador in Kuwait


8. Three Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli air strikes

• Israeli air strikes on Syria killed three soldiers and wounded three others on August 14, 2022, state media said, after the latest such incident in the war-torn country.
• `The aggression led to the death of three soldiers, the wounding of three others,` Syria`s official news agency said, quoting a military source.
• Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes inside the country, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters


9. Iraq`s judiciary dismisses Sadr`s demand to dissolve parliament

• Iraq`s judiciary said on August 14, 2022 it lacks the authority to dissolve parliament as demanded by Montada Sadr, who is engaged in an escalating standoff with political rivals.
• Followers of Sadr, in defiance of his rival and pro-Iran Coordination Framework, have been staging a sit-in protest at Iraq`s parliament.
• In the latest twist to the political turmoil, the firebrand cleric has urged the judiciary to dissolve parliament by the end of this week to pave the way for new legislative elections


10. US lawmakers land in Taiwan on heels of Pelosi`s visit

• A delegation of US lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on August 14, 2022 for a two-day trip during which they will meet President Tsai Ing-wen, the second high-level group to visit Taiwan while there are military tensions between the self-ruled island and China.
• Beijing, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has conducted military drills around the island to express its anger over US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi`s visit to Taipei in early August.
• The de facto US embassy in Taipei said the delegation is being led by Senator Ed Markey, who is being accompanied by four House lawmakers on what it described as part of a larger visit to the Indo-Pacific region.

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