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It's Tuesday, the 11th of November. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,

your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed. First up, American troops are back in the jungle.

For the first time in decades, U.S. forces are training in Panama's dense terrain, reviving an old Cold

War battleground known as Green Hell and signaling a new chapter in Washington's focus on Latin America.

Later in the show, he was once an Al-Qaeda terrorist. Now, he's walking the halls of the White

House. Syrian president Ahmed al-Shaeda terrorist. Now, he's walking the halls of the White House. Syrian president

Ahmed al-Shara meets with President Trump in a historic first. But first, today's afternoon

spotlight. And for the first time in more than two decades, American ground forces are back in Panama's

jungles. This month, a contingent of U.S. Marines and soldiers wrapped up a brutal three-week training course in Panama's jungles. This month, a contingent of U.S. Marines and soldiers wrapped up a brutal

three-week training course in Panama's dense sun-forgiving terrain, a place so hostile that

American troops once nicknamed it Green Hell. The training, called the Combined Jungle Operations

Course, is being run by U.S. Southern Command and the Panamanian

military at a base called Cristobal Colon, once known to American troops as Fort Sherman. For decades,

it was one of the premier jungle warfare schools in the world before the U.S. handed it back to Panama

in 1999. Now it's back in business. The Pentagon says the course teaches everything from

survival and navigation to small unit tactics and the thickest terrain on earth. Students learn to

forage for food, purify water, build shelters, and fight their way through mud and humidity and

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