Iraq is a key test of Trump's willingness to counter Iran
Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump ...
Putin’s troops have lost so many tanks they’re forced to attack in Ladas
As international car makers like Mercedes, Nissan and Volkswagen pulled out of Russia, President Putin told top businessmen ...
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In Trump’s Pentagon, a growing skepticism about US military power
The new cadre of national security officials is highly confident, highly online and scornful of Washington’s foreign policy ...
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Fire breaks out at Iraq’s Rumaila oilfield, sources say
The fire started at an oil storage tank inside the crude unit (DS5) and fire fighters are still trying to contain the fire, ...
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Iraq Backtracking on US Military Withdrawal After Syria Regime Change
The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...
Syrian Civil War: What led to the fall of the regime
In the words of Axios ‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on ...
Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...
The Boston Globe25d
They were once soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they may soon lead the nation’s national security team.
WASHINGTON — It was a nighttime raid gone tragically wrong, as told by Michael Waltz, in his memoir of serving as a Green Beret officer in Afghanistan. In attempting to take out a Taliban ...
The Washington Post21d
Phebe Marr, scholar of Iraq’s history and upheavals, dies at 93
Even as Iraq splintered into sectarian civil war after the toppling of Hussein ... a congressionally chartered think tank dedicated to studies of nonviolent conflict resolution.
Newsday21d
Blinken makes the case for post-war reconstruction, security and governance of Gaza
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a last-minute case Tuesday for a plan for the post-war reconstruction ... a Washington-based think tank. “We have a responsibility to ...