Islamic State terrorists recruited an Iraqi scientist to spearhead their chemical weapons program after capturing the city of Mosul in 2014. Moreover, ISIS continues to seek weapons of mass destruction despite the organization’s depleted war capabilities and numbers, according to an exclusive interview by The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick. Warrick interviewed Suleiman al-Afari, an Iraqi […]
President Trump and Secretary Pompeo Pay Tribute to Fallen Americans from Syrian Bombing…
Earlier today President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Dover Air Force Base to participate in a solemn tribute to fallen Americans. President Trump saluted the casket carrying civilian contractor Scott A. Wirtz of St. Louis, Missouri, as his body was carried from a C-17 military aircraft into a waiting van. […]
Green Beret, Navy Linguist, SEAL-Turned-DIA Civilian Among Americans Killed in ISIS-Claimed Bombing in Syria…
The ISIS-claimed bombing of a restaurant in Syria on Wednesday killed an Army Green Beret with four children, a former Navy SEAL working for the Pentagon’s intelligence agency and a Navy linguist, the Pentagon announced Friday. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37, of Boynton Beach, Fla.; Navy Chief Petty Officer Shannon M. […]
Two U.S. Troops, Two American Civilians Killed in Alleged Islamic State Attack in Syria…
Two U.S. service members, one Department of Defense civilian and one contractor were killed by an explosion while conducting a local engagement in the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Wednesday. Three other U.S. service members were injured in the blast, according to U.S. officials. Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led mission to defeat the Islamic […]
A Turkish ‘Security Zone’ in Northeast Syria Is a Bad Idea…
U.S. President Trump wants U.S. troops to leave northeast Syria. His National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to sabotage that move. Trump came up with idea to hand northeast Syria to Turkey, but soon was told that Turkey would fight the Kurdish YPK/PKK who the U.S. armed and used […]
Get Out of Syria…And Iraq, Too…
National Security Adviser John Bolton said in Israel over the weekend that the removal of U.S. troops from Syria is conditioned on defeating the remnants of the Islamic State. Mr. Bolton was likely soothing allies concerned about the pace of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal plan. Otherwise, such a condition would commit the United States to […]
Holding Obama Accountable for Syria…
Like so much else in the last two years, the three-week political Sturm und Drang over American troops’ withdrawal from Syria says less about a fissuring present and more about a fractured past. Donald Trump’s now-modified withdrawal order (four months, not 30 days, unless he changes his mind again) was another sloppy policy move, but […]
A Clinton Memo That Killed Half a Million People…
A Hillary Clinton memo that Wikileaks made public in 2016 has not gotten the attention it deserves. It takes us back to 2012 and the early phase of the Syrian war. At that point, it was largely an internal affair, although Saudi arms shipments were playing a greater and greater role in bolstering rebel forces. […]
Bolton Won’t Give Up on Illegal War in Syria…
Bolton is not giving up on keeping our illegal war in Syria going one way or another: Some U.S. troops could remain in southern Syria for an undetermined amount of time even as American forces withdraw in coming months from the northern part of the country, a senior administration official said Friday. Bolton’s comments are […]
How the War Party Lost the Middle East…
“Assad must go, Obama says.” So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011. The story quoted President Barack Obama directly: “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. … the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” France’s Nicolas […]
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