The humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen is nearing a tipping point towards total disaster, with no indications of a peaceful resolution or even lessening of the war that began in 2015....
On November 12, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told reporters covering President Donald Trump’s five-nation Asia trip that the President’s latest controversial tweets, ‘are what they are.’ ...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s campaign to consolidate power appears to be ending one phase and beginning another....
On November 8, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a sharp message to North Korea, in a speech before South Korea’s National Assembly....
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is matching his unprecedented efforts to consolidate state power with an unprecedented escalation of long-building tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran....
On November 5, at least twenty-six people were killed and another twenty wounded in a shooting at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas....
It’s difficult to fashion a more telling image of the current turmoil in Saudi Arabia than the reported detention of eleven Saudi princes and dozens of leading businessmen in the luxurious Riyadh Ritz-Carlton Hotel. ...
The Trump Administration’s threats to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, unless the deal’s omissions are addressed, have strained Washington’s relations with Europe....
Since the start of official investigations into the breadth and effectiveness of Moscow’s massive disinformation campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Google and Facebook have been in the awkward position of telling firms commercial ads on their platforms are a great way to...
Terrorism returned to lower Manhattan on October 31, when 29-year old Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented truck along a crowded popular bike path adjacent to the West Side Highway. ...
On October 30, 2017, the investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled a 12-count federal indictment against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates....
On October 27, amid rising tensions between Washington D.C. and Pyongyang, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis visited South Korea....
Tensions and sporadic fighting between the Iraqi federal government and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have grown more intense and consequential with new reports of fighting north of Mosul....
A recent poll by the journal Military Times reaffirms that the U.S. military is not exempt from the racial divisions that plague the country’s politics and society at large....
The U.S. has over 6,000 military personnel operating in 53 countries in Africa....