After a meeting in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump praised Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt again during his first overseas trip, saying “safety seems to be very strong” and accepted the invitation to visit Cairo. Trump claimed [ More … ]
After the major losses that the Syrian rebels suffered in 2016 because of the Russian air campaign, the US administration hinted that it is studying a new law to send them anti-craft missiles, a move that Russia [ More … ]
The Obama administration misled journalists and lawmakers for more than nine months about a secret agreement to lift international sanctions on a critical funding node of Iran’s ballistic missile program, as part of a broader [ More … ]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he had lost an argument within the Obama administration to back up diplomatic efforts to end the crisis in Syria with the threat of using military force, the [ More … ]
Without an agreement for Assad to step down and allow a transition toward a pluralist government, no ceasefire stands a chance. As almost everybody can now tell, the new cease-fire agreement on Syria is doomed [ More … ]
The Assad regime military was foundering last year, with thousands of rebel fighters pushing into areas of the country long considered to be government strongholds. The rebel offensive was aided by powerful tank-destroying missiles supplied [ More … ]
US officials confirmed Wednesday that the Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal. President Barack [ More … ]
The Obama administration has released the long-classified 28 pages of the official congressional report on the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, which concerned the alleged ties of the Saudi Arabian government to the 9/11 hijackers. [ More … ]
While the Obama administration is pouring $1.3 billion in an annual U.S. military aid to the al-Sisi military regime, the Egyptian government is waging war against what it describes as an American-inspired plot to divide [ More … ]
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