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In a highly unexpected and unusual development, and coming off a possible diplomatic breakthrough amid recent talks aimed at opening up relations, Iranian diplomats arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this weekend for the first time in a half-decade.
Following America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, her focus has switched to the Pacific with the establishment of a joint Australian and UK naval partnership.
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Difficulties with Iran will recur regularly, like the oscillations of a sine wave, and the recent crisis -- if such it was, or is -- illustrates persistent U.S. intellectual and institutional failures, starting with this:
At some time in the future, when officials in Washington and Tehran finally stop yelling at each other and start talking, they will ask themselves: "Why did we waste so much time hating each other?"
Protests in the southern Iran city of Khorramshahr turned into an armed confrontation with security forces early Sunday, resulting in injuries among protesters and police, with conflicting reports that one or more demonstrators may have died.
After meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, US Defense Secretary James 'Mad Dog' Mattis announced that a war between Israel and Iran is "very likely" due primarily to Iranian forces helping prop up the Bashar al-Assad regim
Time to tell Israel and Saudi Arabia to fight their own wars
The violence and blooshed continues in Iran with least 9 more people being killed, overnight, and the arrest rates continue to rise as 100 more dissidents were arrested as the discontent and expressed unrest is sweeping Iran.
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Having failed to unseat Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the United States has switched its focus to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Trump administration may issue waivers of some Iran nuclear-related sanctions in the coming days as it adheres, for now, to its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, while carrying out a comprehensive review of its Iran policy.
"She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours", reports quoted the girl's grandfather.
President-elect Donald Trump told a Cincinnati audience this week that he intends to make some big changes in US foreign policy.
Months of bipartisan negotiations have finally culminated in an agreement over Congress's annual defense policy bill.
The Orlando and San Bernardino shootings have led important personalities to make several suggestions, both workable and unworkable.
"Evidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry."
If you think that the geopolitics chessboard with US Empire hegemony historically ruling the roost has been shaken up in recent months whereby such longstanding US allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia have been thrown under the bus by the Obama admini
Of all the wars in which the United States currently has a hand, the conflict in Yemen is perhaps the most anonymous.
The shaky debut last week of a new unity government in Libya brings Western nations, including the United States, much closer to a renewed military mission there, and to a host of obstacles that will test their ability to secure a country gripped by
Consider the following two headlines during the past three weeks:
According to a recent New York Times series of articles, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the key Obama Administration figure arguing for a US attack on Libya back in 2011.
The use of the US military overseas seems to have become so commonplace that the Obama Administration can bomb a country with no Congressional input and very little media interest at all.
It seems that Iraq will continue to haunt the American people for the indefinite future. And it should.
15 years into the US occupation of Afghanistan, the nation is a less occupied than ever, as a new report to Congress warns that the Taliban's military gains have left it in control of a bigger chunk of the country than at any time since the 2001 US
Putin Blasts Interventionist US Foreign Policy, Calls Forcible Regime Change "Intolerable"
To take down the so-called Islamic State in Syria, the influential former head of the CIA wants to co-opt jihadists from America's arch foe.
When something big happens in the foreign policy world--especially a political issue that requires a vote in Congress--advocates try to shore up their positions with what are called, in public relations terms, "validators."
Saudi Arabia wreaks havoc on its poorest neighbor--with U.S. help.
A partially-declassified DIA report brings disturbing details about US support for jihadists in Syria. What kind of game is the US government playing in the Middle East?
