17 Years After Operation Iraqi Freedom, Is Iraq Our Enemy Once Again?
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, released a special briefing last Monday detailing a trip…
Category: War
Is Confronting Iran More Important Than Preventing IS Return? Can Trump Have Both?
PICTURED: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the funeral of Qasem Soleimani’s father. CC 4.0 IRAQ, January 10th, 2020. U.S. airstrikes…
UPDATE: Peace Talks Progress in Yemen, as Middle East Prepares for Fourth Decade of War
PICTURED: Civilian Prime Minister in Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok. Photo credit: International Hydropower. CC 2.0 KHARTOUM, Sudan. December 8th, 2019.…
Peace Talks Progress in Yemen and Afghanistan as Middle-East Prepares to Enter 4th Decade of War
PICTURED: Yemeni children holding a funeral ceremony for Yemeni children that were killed in airstrikes. Photo credit The Guardian.…
The Taliban And Kabul Are Fighting Over ISIS-Defeat Glory – Where Does That Leave CENTCOM?
PICTURED: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani at the London Conference on Afghanistan on 4 December 2014, co-hosted by the governments…
Afghanistan Strike Numbers For September Make This Backwards Conflict Seem Like WW2
Afghanistan, September 28th, 2019. 18 days after President Trump’s administration and the Taliban nearly agreed to end the longest…
Russia And Turkey Negotiate Memorandum To Resolve Conflict In Northern Syria
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019. Within the Russian city of Sochi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin have reached an…
Foreign Affairs Committee Congressmen Want A Syrian War They Can’t Have
Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) have put forward a joint resolution “opposing the decision to end…
Assad And Damascus Reach Agreement With Kurds To Repel The Turkish Army
PICTURED: Kurdish YPG fighters from Syria. The YPG is the main military body within the SDF fighting the Turks.…
Turkish Invasion Into Northern Syria: Three Days Gone – What’s Happened?
PICTURED: Kurdish YPG fighters from Syria. The YPG is the main military body within the SDF fighting the Turks.…
Imminent Turkish Invasion May Bring About “Unthinkable” Alliance Between Kurds And Damascus
PICTURED: Two Female Kurdish YPG fighters smile for the camera. Kurdish peoples are known to be more progressive than…
Turkish Invasion Into Syria Leads The U.S. To Withdraw
ANKARA, Turkey. October 17, 2018. PICTURED: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a meeting with U.S. Sec. of State…
State Department Accuses Syria Of Chemical Attacks Again Even As More Evidence To The Contrary Surfaces
Moscow, Russia, May 17th 2018. PICTURED: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Kremlin photo credit www.kremlin.ru WASHINGTON, September 26th,…
In Largest Offensive Ever, Houthis Claim “Thousands” Of Saudi Soldiers And Weapons Captured
Najran, Saudi Arabia. Saturday, September 28th, 2019. According to Houthi media outlet Almasirah TV, military officials in Yemen are…
Saudi Escalates War In Yemen, While Sanctions Tighten Further Around Iran
Yemen, September 2018. PICTURED: Damage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an…
UPDATE: Saudi Aramco Bombings And The Saudi Military Investigation’s Findings
PICTURED: Satellite imaging of the Khurais oil-processing facility – one of the Kingdom’s largest, and one that was heavily…
International Conversation Surrounding Aramco Bombing Misses The Elephant In The Room
PICTURED: Satellite imaging of the Khurais oil-processing facility – one of the Kingdom’s largest, and one that was heavily…
At Zero Hour, Trump Declares Afghan Peace Talks “Dead”
PICTURED: CENTCOM Head General Kenneth McKenzie visits US forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Monday, September 9th, 2019. Remarkably, after months…
Taliban And U.S. Agree To A ‘Peace Deal In Principle’
PICTURED: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan. Khalilzad has been working with the Taliban now for…
Peace In Afghanistan Is Drawing Nearer, As The Peace Talks In Qatar Close In On A Deal
PICTURED: Suhail Shaheen, the deputy Taliban envoy and part of the negotiating team in Doha. Photo: Ariananews. Doha, Qatar,…