Russia has openly touted the performance of its weapons systems in Syria for years It has used its sizable involvement in the Syrian civil war as a means to bolster the Assad regime and increase Moscow’s influence in the region—and to increase its arms sales...
For decades, U.S. relations with Pakistan were situated in a Cold War context, geared toward countering the then-Soviet Union’s power...
On August 19, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wenmade an official visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas, the first time a leader of Taiwan has visited a U.S. federal government facility in an official capacity...
By withdrawing from the multilateral 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing all U.S. secondary sanctions on Tehran, the Trump Administration seeks, at the least, to curb Iran’s regional influence and, at most, to perhaps even bring down the Islamic Republic’s regime...
[caption id="attachment_29796" align="alignnone" width="898"] A man inspects the wreckage of a bus at the site of a deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Thursday, in Saada, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)[/caption] . Bottom Line Up Front The August 9 killing of at least 40 children...
In December 2017, the spokesman for the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve—the coalition fighting the so-called Islamic State—stated, ‘there's about 1,000 across Iraq and Syria’ in terms of Islamic State fighters...
The Turkish lira briefly halted its free fall after hitting a new low against the U.S. dollar on August 13, 2018...
The importance of Ghazni to Afghanistan is hard to overstate. It is the provincial capital: historically and symbolically significant, and logistically vital...
There has been recent positive traction in the effort to repatriate foreign fighters who joined the so-called Islamic State captured in Syria...
The intensity of the diplomatic rupture between Saudi Arabia and Canada is surprising, even for a country as sensitive to criticism as the Kingdom...
The U.S. has long made containing or diminishing al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the most dangerous al-Qaeda affiliate, one of its counterterrorism priorities...
There have been many significant battles in the Syrian civil war—Aleppo, Raqqa, Homs and Deraa, among others—yet a battle for Idlib would likely be the last—and worst...
On August 1, the United States, using ‘Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, “Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption,” which builds upon Treasury’s Global Magnitsky Act authorities,’ imposed sanctions against two high-level Turkish government officials...
On July 25, 2018, the Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked several Saudi ships in the Red Sea that Saudi Arabia said were oil tankers, although the Houthis claimed they were warships....
The U.S. has become an internally divided and fragile superpower, with resulting social, political, and economic consequences. In particular, the country is unprepared to respond to any large-scale terrorist attack or natural disaster with common purpose...