At Zero Hour, Trump Declares Afghan Peace Talks “Dead”
PICTURED: CENTCOM Head General Kenneth McKenzie visits US forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Monday, September 9th, 2019. Remarkably, after months…
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Venezuelan Government To Charge Opposition With High-Treason Claiming Evidence Of Conspiracy With Exxon Mobil
PICTURED: Vice President Mike Pence, President Juan Guaido of Venezuela, and President Iván Duque Márquez of Colombia, Monday February…
Taliban And U.S. Agree To A ‘Peace Deal In Principle’
PICTURED: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan. Khalilzad has been working with the Taliban now for…
Peace In Afghanistan Is Drawing Nearer, As The Peace Talks In Qatar Close In On A Deal
PICTURED: Suhail Shaheen, the deputy Taliban envoy and part of the negotiating team in Doha. Photo: Ariananews. Doha, Qatar,…
Houthi Retaliatory Attacks Increase In Scope As 10 Missiles, 2 Drones Hit Targets In Saudi Arabia
Dubai, UAE, November 12th, 2015. PICTURED: UAE Air Force jet fighter Dassault Mirage 2000 at Dubai Airshow 2015. Many…
‘Escalation Dominance’ Gradually Moving Toward Iran’s Side Of The Board With New Missile Defense System
PICTURED: Iran’s new Bavar-373 missile system. Photo credit Tasimnews CC.4 license. Tehran, August 23rd, 2019. Iran has unveiled a…
More Trouble With Boats – U.S. Issues Seizure Warrant For Iranian Oil Tanker
PICTURED: Grace 1 anchored off port in Haifa, Israel, Aug 26th, 2017. Gibraltar, August 18th, 2019. Earlier in July,…
Senate Urges EU To Join US Maximum Pressure Campaign In Venezuela
August 8th 2019. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has written Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign…
Venezuela To Share Cuba’s Fate As Sanctions Turn To Embargo
Washington, August 6th, 2019. President Trump has signed an executive order placing the once sanction-gripped South American country of…
Arms Race Starter Pistol Goes Off As U.S. Formally Withdraws From 1987 Missile Reduction Treaty
PICTURED: The 2K12 “Kub” (Russian: 2К12 “Куб”; English: cube) mobile surface-to-air missile system is a Soviet low to medium-level…
NATO And The Taliban Are Killing Their Way To Peace
PICTURED: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo credit CC Gage Skidmore. July 30th, 2019. The…
Who’s Got Whom? Britain And Iran Rattle Sabers Over The Mutual Seizing Of Tankers
PICTURED: Grace 1 anchored off port in Haifa, Israel, Aug 26th, 2017. Strait of Hormuz, July 19th, 2019. In…
UN Resolves That US Sanctions Are A Human Rights Violation, But Needs To Take Action On Their Criminality
Geneva, Switzerland, July 15th, 2019. The 41st session of the United Nations Council on Human Rights adopts a resolution…
Brand New Venezuela Sanctions Seem Misguided And Totally Absurd
PICTURED: The maritime routes used by Venezuelan oil tankers in trade with Cuba. Photo sourced from Diario de Cuba.…
Why Does The UAE Want To Wind Down Its Presence In Yemen?
Dubai, UAE, November 12th, 2015. PICTURED: UAE Air Force jet fighter Dassault Mirage 2000 at Dubai Airshow 2015. Many…
How Does The War On Terror Stack Up To Some Of History’s Most Infamous Genocides?
PICTURED: The eternal flame at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day 2014. Photo credit…
House Committee Wants To Finance Europe’s Militaries
Washington, June 17th 2019. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs released a statement explaining that Committee Chair Eliot Engel…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Produces 22 Joint Resolutions Prohibiting Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia And UAE
PICTURED: Taiz City, Yemen, November 2nd, 2018. Water crisis caused by the war in the city of Taiz South…
Examining The Case For Iranian (Or American) Foul Play In The Strait Of Hormuz
PICTURED: A crew member of Kokuka Courage receiving treatment from U.S. Naval members of the USS Bainbridge, one of…
Tehran Plays David As Europe Rushes To Relieve Pressure From Goliath’s Crippling Sanctions
PICTURED: Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference 2019. Photo credit Wikimedia Commons, CC license, Germany. Monday, Jun…