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Dec 20 2016
News
State Department worried Trump is going to be the real madman of foreign policy theory
Foreign policy is a tricky beast for any new president, at any time. But 2016 presents some particular international challenges: ISIS, Syria, Russia and the Ukraine, Russia and Syria, China and Iran (to name just a few). When a new president is on the way, traditional adversaries might test the waters a bit by, say, seizing a U.S. unmanned research drone. Just to see what happens. It's a
Daily KosDec 26 2023
Headline Roundup
US Launches Retaliatory Strikes Against Militias in Iraq
President Joe Biden ordered retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq on Tuesday after a drone attack on Erbil Air Base wounded 3 U.S. service members.
The Details: The airstrikes targeted “three locations utilized by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups” and “focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities.” However, the Iraqi government said the strikes
Washington Post Voice of America (VOA) National Review (News)Mar 28 2015
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Obama's anti-terror strategy suffers setback in Yemen
President Barack Obama has pointed to Yemen to boast that his new global anti-terror strategy was thriving.
But with Iranian-backed rebels now overrunning the U.S. ally tasked with beating back local al Qaeda affiliates, the nation at the tip of Arabian Peninsula makes a better case study in the approach's limitations.
Yemen was the petri dish for Obama's concept of how to fight
CNN DigitalAug 13 2020
Background
Trump’s reckless Middle East policy has brought the US to the brink of war
The US drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the long-time leader of Iran’s paramilitary Quds Force of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, comes when the United States is at a dangerous crossroads in the Middle East. Soleimani was responsible for many of Iran’s most important relationships, including with paramilitary groups in Iraq, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and
VoxAug 17 2021
Analysis
Biden Must Answer For The Disaster In Kabul
No one is debating the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The question is, why did the withdrawal devolve into a horrifying disaster?
I left for a weekend mountain-climbing trip early this past Saturday, blissfully out of cell range and cut off from the outside world for nearly two full days.
That Friday evening before I left, there were reports that the security
The FederalistSep 19 2019
News
Iran's foreign minister threatens 'all-out war' in response to potential military strike
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened that an “all-out war” would result from a military strike on Iran by the United States or Saudi Arabia in response to last weekend’s attacks on Saudi oil facilities.
“I make a very serious statement about defending our country. I’m making a very serious statement that we don’t want war,” Zarif told CNN in an interview that aired Thursday
PoliticoSep 08 2023
Headline Roundup
Musk Denied Ukraine Starlink Access for Planned Attack on Russian Fleet
A new biography of tech billionaire Elon Musk states that last year, Musk “secretly told his engineers” to disable Starlink satellite coverage in a Ukrainian region, stifling a planned Ukrainian attack on a Russian fleet.
Details: Ukrainian forces were reportedly planning to use submarine drones equipped with explosives to attack docked Russian ships at a naval base in Russian-occupied
CBS News (Online) The Hill Washington TimesJul 05 2021
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Search back on after rest of South Florida condo demolished
Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the building in a plume of dust.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told the Associated Press that the demolition went “exactly as planned” around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
Crews
Associated PressDec 08 2013
News
Is it always the economy, stupid?
There will be plenty of legacy items by which to judge President Barack Obama. Obamacare, for instance: Whether the new law that seeks health insurance for every American is a prudent piece of policy or an albatross of government overreach is a matter of opinion. How about drawing down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? What about his efforts to police suspected terrorists abroad through the
CNN DigitalSep 11 2020
Analysis
The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco
There is a substantial corpus of writing on the merits and unreliability of California light—its clarity, iciness, fickleness, mood. None of it could account for the light in the Bay Area on Wednesday, September 9th: a dark, ochre stain, like a scrim over the sunrise, that deepened as the day wore on. For hours, it looked like four in the morning. Drivers kept their headlights on; neighbors
The New Yorker