The past week has witnessed reports of increased Turkish military activity in Iraq and Syria as well as its intruding itself deeper into the war in Yemen. In all three cases Ankara has pitted itself against forces that are or can be seen to be pro-Iranian: Shiite...
Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, presented his agency’s annual World Threat Assessment before the Senate Armed Forces Committee on April 29. The transcript of his testimony runs to fifty-seven pages and is broad in its...
Blinken says Afghanistan’s neighbors have been ‘free riders’
Locally hired contractors want asylum in the US or Europe
Protection agreement was part of a secret annex to US-Taliban deal
On April 29 the U.S. Senate confirmed Victoria Nuland as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, which has been described as the fourth most important position in the State Department. Though as the first three are filled by political appointees and the other...
The US and Iran are engaged in indirect negotiations to revive JCPOA
Russia blames ‘unfriendly steps’ by US for souring relations
On April 28 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that his government will apportion $747 million ($580 million American) to upgrade four military bases in the north of the country and to increase and expand war games with the U.S. The funds used for the...
The US viewed USAID as a ‘key tool’ to put pressure on Maduro
