AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Sep 17 2014
News
Top general says half of Iraqi army incapable of working with US against ISIS
The U.S. military's top officer said Wednesday that almost half of Iraq's army is incapable of working against the Islamic State militant group, while the other half needs to be rebuilt with the help of U.S. advisers and military equipment.
Fox News Digital
Aug 08 2017
News
Americans Increasingly Open to War With North Korea, Even As Distrust of Trump Hits Record Highs
How many "kinetic military actions" will it take for war skepticism to stick with the American public?
A new poll by the Chicago Council of Foreign Affairs (CCFA) finds that 75 percent of Americans believe that North Korea—a hermit kingdom thousands of miles away that is unable to keep its people from starving, a country whose military budget is a 60th the size of America's—presents a
Reason
Dec 01 2020
News
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Killed
“An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday.” (Reuters)
“A top Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using ‘electronic devices’ to remotely kill a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s… Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian
The Flip Side
Sep 18 2021
Opinion
How Will Courts React to Biden’s Increasingly Imperial Presidency?
The history of the United States, insofar as concerns the vitality of civil rights in times of crisis, can be summed up succinctly. While a crisis ensues, when there is a real perception of threat to our security, the courts give the executive a wide berth.
They don’t exactly turn a blind eye. It’s more like slow-walking. Cases claiming infringement of fundamental liberties may be
National Review (News)
Aug 12 2019
News
Regulating Speech Won’t Fix Our Politics
Since the landmark political-speech case Citizens United v. FEC (2010), there has been broad public support for campaign-finance reform, fueled by a deep suspicion of both politicians and moneyed interests. According to a Gallup poll before the 2018 midterm election, more than half of Americans view members of Congress as corrupt and beholden to special interests rather than to their
National Review (News)
Mar 12 2021
Analysis
Fact-checking Biden’s address to the nation
President Biden’s address to the nation was heavy on emotion and hope, but light on facts. Here are two moments where the president stretched the truth.
“That’s more deaths than in World War I, World War II, Vietnam War and 9/11 combined.”
Biden’s math on this is wrong. The president said 527,726 Americans have been recorded as dying from the coronavirus. But, as we have noted
Washington Post
Jan 06 2020
News
Defense Secretary Esper says U.S. has made no decision to leave Iraq
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said Monday that the United States has not made any decision to leave Iraq, shortly after the U.S. military said in a letter to Iraqi officials that U.S. forces would be relocating “to prepare for onward movement.”
On Sunday, Iraqi lawmakers passed a nonbinding resolution calling for foreign troops to withdraw.
In the letter, released Monday,
Washington Post
May 11 2018
News
Iran condemns wave of Israeli air strikes in Syria
Iran has backed Syria's "right to defend itself" after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria.
BBC News
Jul 18 2015
News
Bush, Walker, Trump criticize gun ban in recruiting offices
Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Donald Trump called Friday for an end to a ban on service members carrying guns in military recruiting offices.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal, another presidential candidate, issued an executive order authorizing the state's National Guard adjutant general to arm personnel at Guard facilities to provide protection.
Townhall