Greg Myhre

government, including the CIA, in the southern city of Kandahar.

This is according to the statement by Ratcliffe.

Roughly 200,000 Afghan immigrants and refugees have come to the U.S.

in the past four years.

President Trump has called for the examination of every Afghan who entered the country when President Biden was in office.

Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.

Many U.S.

presidents have been reluctant to lean on Israeli leaders.

Trump is not, and he has leverage.

The ceasefire is certainly part of that leverage.

And you may recall just four months ago in June, Trump ordered U.S.

airstrikes on Iran to help Israel with its own bombing campaign against that country's nuclear facilities.

At this moment, no one can legitimately claim to be in charge of the two million Palestinians in Gaza.

The Hamas leadership has been eviscerated by two years of war.

A ceasefire plan calls for a committee of technocrats to take over, though it's not clear when this will be established or how much authority it will have.

Hamas civilian police are back on the streets, but have been clashing with Palestinian clans, which are essentially armed gangs.

Looming over all of this is the staggering challenge of rebuilding a territory where an estimated 90 percent of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed.

Greg Myhre, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

The meeting will take place next week at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, outside Washington.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the meeting but gave no details on what would be discussed.