One Iraqi militia fighter was killed and eight others injured after a large explosion rocked a military base south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
by Will Porter | Apr 20, 2024 | News
One Iraqi militia fighter was killed and eight others injured after a large explosion rocked a military base south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 19, 2024 | News Roundup
US News New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform AWC US Government Rejects Australia’s Call To End Assange Case, Submits 'Assurances' For Extradition The Dissenter Speaker Johnson Unveils $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bills AWC New Amendment...
by Ted Snider | Apr 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On April 13, Iran responded to Israel’s attack on its embassy compound in Damascus that killed seven Iranian officers, including a very senior military official, General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, by launching over 300 drones and missiles at Israel from Iranian soil. U.S....
by Bill Buppert | Apr 18, 2024 | Blog
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 16, 2024 | News
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will attempt to convince the international community to increase economic penalties on Iran as punishment for the drone and missile barrage Tehran launched at Israel. Iran’s attack followed Israel’s assassination of several...
by Will Porter | Apr 14, 2024 | Blog
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...
by Will Porter | Apr 13, 2024 | News
The Iranian military fired a massive barrage of drones and missiles targeting sites in Israel.
by Will Porter | Apr 13, 2024 | News
Iranian commandos have seized a cargo vessel with reported ties to an Israeli billionaire, taking control of the ship as it sailed near the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war? Jim Webb joins...
I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
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