As US President Barack Obama welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Friday, Sept. 25, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning-CV-16 docked at the Syrian port of Tartus, accompanied by a guided missile cruiser
An Asian state aggressively expanding its military, bullying its neighbors, illegally fortifying islands, and bent on regional, then global domination – sound familiar? Are you thinking it's China 2015? No, it is Japan 1937-1944.
"You know Russia wants to get ISIS right," Mr. Trump said, using the acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. "We want to get ISIS. Russia's in Syria. Maybe we should let them do it?
Putin has essentially called the West's bluff on battling ISIS, and moved to protect Assad's comparatively mild and secular regime from the gambit of Western-sponsored terrorism that is being used to shock the region into submission
Here is Carla Fiorina at the debate describing the way she will lead us to Armageddon. She won't talk to Putin, but she will send him "the message" via military threats:
Here is Carla Fiorina at the debate describing the way she will lead us to Armageddon. She won't talk to Putin, but she will send him "the message" via military threats:
Here is Carla Fiorina at the debate describing the way she will lead us to Armageddon. She won't talk to Putin, but she will send him "the message" via military threats:
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for president.
Russia has started flying drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Monday, in what appeared to be Moscow's first military air operations inside the country since staging a rapid buildup at a Syrian air base.
He explained that since assassination is banned by executive order, using the term would indicate the administration is deliberately violating the ban. "This administration, like others, just doesn't think the executive order applies,"
...perhaps more attention in U.S.-China relations should be given to dangerous flashpoints in the South and East China Seas. In these places, the two nuclear-armed powers could be dragged into a conflict that could escalate perilously.
Real enemies are a threat to any country, but imagined enemies can be even more dangerous. They sap resources, provoke needless conflicts, and divert attention from true challenges. The United States has constructed such a fantasy by turning Russia i
One of those many Saudi regime loyalists, conservative British MP Daniel Kawczynski, appeared on BBC's Newsnight program on Friday night and was mercilessly grilled by host James O'Brien about support for the Saudi war in Yemen by both the Britis
The possibility of troop involvement emerged before a visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for talks with Putin about Russia's growing military involvement in Syria.
Winston Churchill famously said in 1939: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
It is difficult to fathom a place and time in the past when a small cadre of school students had the moral resolve to risk their lives for the escape of Jews from Nazi tyranny in WW II.
The Syrian military has recently started using new types of air and ground weapons supplied by Russia, a Syrian military source told Reuters on Thursday, underlining growing Russian support to Damascus that is alarming the United States.
Earlier today, US Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin III seemed to suggest that US SpecOps were fighting alongside YPG in Syria. As we noted when the news hit, if true that won't go over well with Turkey's Erdogan, Washington's brand new coaliti