The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues: The U.S. and the United Kingdom conducted a series of strikes at 18 Houthi targets at eight different locations inside Yemen Saturday, part of a continuing effort to fight back against the Iran-backed group that...
The U.S. used its veto at the UN Security Council for the third time in this war to block a call for an immediate ceasefire: The U.S. vetoed an Algerian proposal at the United Nations Security Council that called for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, saying that a...
There’s a lot that could be said about Gen. McKenzie’s op-ed defending a continued U.S. military presence in Syria and Iraq, but these claims are clearly untrue: In the end, American troops are in Syria and Iraq to prevent ISIS from being able to attack our homeland....
Michael Wahid Hanna calls on the U.S. to avert further catastrophe in Gaza: It is hard to imagine things getting worse, but an assault on Rafah would up the ante. The US is the only power that can stop it. To do so, it will have to exert a degree of pressure it has so...
Paul Poast is half-right in his assessment of Biden’s foreign policy: To put it bluntly, the Biden administration’s approach to foreign policy is realpolitik from top to bottom. This isn’t necessarily bad. A realpolitik approach to foreign policy enables Biden to do...
Hal Brands repeats a very popular lie about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Every recent president gets their Middle Eastern war, whether they want it or not. Since Ronald Reagan’s time, each administration has engaged in at least one significant military...
Peter Beinart is a bit shocked by the sheer cruelty of the U.S. and European cutoff of funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA): What does that mean in the midst of this humanitarian cataclysm? UNRWA is currently sheltering 1.2 million displaced...
Three U.S. servicemen were killed and dozens others were injured by a drone attack on their base in Jordan today. This latest attack is one of more than 160 launched since October 7 by local militias in Iraq and Syria at bases where U.S. forces are stationed. The war...
The U.S. and Britain continue to wage war on Yemen while pretending that they aren’t at war: The U.S. and U.K. launched strikes against eight Houthi targets Monday, the two countries said, in a continuing bid to stop the Yemeni rebel group’s attacks on ships...
The immediate consequences of U.S./U.K. military action in Yemen shouldn’t surprise anyone. Just as opponents of the strikes said, attacking the Houthis has made the threat to commercial shipping worse: The US and UK’s decision to hit back at Houthi militants after...
