On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing them into the World Trade Center. None of the nineteen hijackers were Afghan nationals. Weeks after the attack, the United States announced that U.S. armed forces had launched...
The United States currently finds itself in the most complex and challenging geopolitical environment at least since the end of the Cold War. Liberal democracy is backsliding from Poland to the Philippines. Violence and instability from Syria to Central America are...
On Tuesday night, Iran fired a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq. Early assessments indicate no Americans were killed; it’s unclear if there were other casualties. President Trump, who ordered the killing of Iran’s top general last week, Quds Force...
The U.S. military is currently fighting wars in seven different countries, but that hasn’t stopped Sen. John Cornyn from embracing the chance to start yet another war, this time with Iran. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump authorized the fatal bombing of Maj....
A U.S. ambassador has named Secretary of Energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry as a key figure in Trump’s foreign policy in Ukraine that is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. According to the transcript of European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s...
On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn defended President Trump’s dangerous policy of pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, a move that many Republicans in Congress oppose. “If Turkey was planning on coming into northern Syria and trying to ethnically cleanse the Kurds, and...
On Thursday, Congress voted to condemn Trump’s withdrawal from Syria. The bipartisan resolution was a rare rebuke against the president by Republicans, almost two-thirds of which voted alongside Democrats. Without any legislation attached, the resolution condemned the...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi showered praise on President Donald Trump on Sunday before thousands in Houston, billing him as a “great leader” and “special person” who has “wit.” Trump returned the praise, saying Modi is doing an “exceptional job.” Modi,...
Two major Saudi oil facilities were attacked on Saturday. One of the targets was the Abaiq plant, the largest crude oil stabilization facility in the world, while the other was the Khurais field, Saudi Arabia’s second-largest oil field. It has been widely reported...