Hegseth narrowly wins confirmation to become US defense secretary
Pete Hegseth narrowly secured enough votes on Friday to become the next U.S. defense secretary, a major victory for President ...
csis.org23h
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or the “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant”) traces its beginnings to the outset of the Syrian civil war and has remained a dangerous opposition force throughout ...
columbusjewishnews1d
The dramatic operations Israel coordinated with the US—and those it didn’t
Israeli sources privy to the most intimate forums reveal the behind-the-scenes relationships with the Biden administration ...
Mother finds clue from her missing son in Syrian prison
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports on Debra Tice’s search for her son, Austin, who was taken at a regime checkpoint in Syria in 2012 and disappeared in the prisons of dictator Bashar al-Assad.
CounterPunch2d
The US Makes a Play for Rojava
In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led ...
AFP on MSN4d
Missing US journalist's mother says new Syria leaders 'determined' to find son
The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, said on Monday in Damascus that the war-torn ...
Hosted on MSN4d
[Column] America’s 3 schools of thought on Korea’s political situation
That’s why Americans find it so mind-boggling that Yoon would have threatened Korea’s constitutional order with his ...
It’s not clear who will lead the Pentagon when Trump takes office. What happens then?
It is unclear who will take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as ...