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The US State Department condemned the six-day furlough granted to convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas last Sunday.

"We strongly condemn the latest release on furlough of N17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, convicted of multiple murders including US Mission personnel in Greece," State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement on Monday.

Greece remained "a cooperative counterterrorism partner in 2017," the US State Department said in its annual "Country Reports on Terrorism" published on Wednesday, but went on to slam the decision to grant prison leave to convicted terrorist  Dimitris Koufodinas and delays in issuing new biometric identification cards.

Large American companies are interested in investing and expanding their activities in Bulgaria in the fields of agriculture, pharmacy, technology and the food and drinks sector. This was announced by the press service of the Council of Ministers.

Turkish Embassy in Washington said on Oct. 8 that it suspended all non-immigrant visa services at all Turkish diplomatic facilities in the U.S. in retaliation for the latest decision by the U.S. Embassy in Ankara to suspend all non-migrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in the country, Hurryiet reports.

The United States has said that it is no longer focused on ousting President Bashar al-Assad as it seeks a new strategy to end Syria’s civil war.

American officials have been shifting away from their former insistence that he must go for some time, but now they have made it explicit.

BELGRADE - Republican Mike Rogers presented a resolution in the House of Representatives seeking full US withdrawal from the UN, as well as moving the headquarters of the organization from New York.

Rogers and other republicans have several times pointed out that American taxpayers should not pay for an organization that does not promote the interests of the United States.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton faces a congressional grilling on Oct. 22 over her role during and after the deadly attacks on the US mission in Benghazi, a hearing one top Democrat blasted as a "political hit job." 

The United States has deployed half a dozen F-16 warplanes at a Turkish base to help operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the US mission to NATO said on August 9.

A US airstrike in northern Iraq has killed an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) operative who was a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, the Pentagon said June 22.

A pair of M1A2 Abrams battle tanks have arrived in Bulgaria by plane, the country's Defense Ministry has said.

The vehicles, flown into Bulgaria from the American Rammstein Air Base in Germany, are due to take part in the Power Shock drill at the Novo Selo military ground near Sliven.