Yesterday a US Naval destroyer sailed within 12 miles of an island in the South China Sea newly built and claimed by China. The Chinese claimed a 12 mile exclusion zone and have complained over the US "violation." Is the US military "keeping the sea
The US changed its story four times (at least) on why it bombed a civilian hospital staffed by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) otherwise known as Doctors Without Borders, in Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan earlier this month.
If there's one lesson Washington simply refuses to learn when it comes to Mid-East foreign policy it's that forcibly removing autocrats almost invariably leads to chaos.
Israel's Atomic Energy Commission has endorsed the Iran nuclear agreement, finding that on a technical level it will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Are cooler heads beginning to prevail?
Both Republicans and Democrats are guiding our country into perpetual war in seven countries. Have we come to believe that war is the natural order of things? This is Reality Check.
After four years and untold billions of dollars, the US has failed to overthrow the Assad government in Syria. The only "success" has been a boom in al-Qaeda and ISIS fighters. Isn't it time to cut our losses and bring the military back home?
As readers know, I have emphasized that the declared neoconservative intention of achieving global hegemony has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon as Russia and China are most definitely not going to submit,...
Given the ongoing disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and the rest of the Middle East, how can anyone in his right mind still be an interventionist?
Obama's recent decision to leave American troops in perpetuity in the Afghanistan War, despite a fourteen-year failed attempt to remodel the country, is as unsurprising as it is appalling.
So it is all coming out now ... the deliberate, cold-blooded planning to create a war with Iraq no matter the consequences. The evidence is contained in communications from then US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George W Bush.
"It is known that China has joined our military operation in Syria, the Chinese cruiser has already entered the Mediterranean, aircraft carrier follows it," Morozov allegedly said.
The violence and chaos inside Syria, where Islamic State terrorists and other rebel groups control large portions of the country, is so dire that millions of people have fled and the U.N. has stopped trying to keep count of the dead.
Syrian army and allied forces supported by Russian warplanes made further advances as they pressed an offensive against insurgents on Monday, in the fiercest clashes for nearly a week, a monitor said.