Another State Department official quit in frustration over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy: Casey resigned from the state department in July after four years at the job, discreetly leaving the post unlike other recent high-profile government departures. Now...
The end of Assad’s rule makes most U.S. sanctions on Syria obsolete, so naturally hawks in Congress want to keep them in place: Republican and Democratic U.S. senators say it is too soon to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar...
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump is considering military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities: President-elect Donald Trump is weighing options for stopping Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon, including the possibility of preventive...
More than a week after Yoon’s attempted coup, the South Korean president is digging in his heels and refusing to quit. Yoon is now under investigation for insurrection, and he is under a travel ban so that he cannot leave the country. The disgraced president delivered...
Amnesty International concluded in a new report this week that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza: The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive...
Van Jackson identifies some of the things that we can reliably predict about Trump’s foreign policy: Will Trump preside over a growing defense budget that officially eclipses more than $1 trillion? Will US grand strategy remain primacist? Will economic statecraft...
Jonah Blank tries to make the case that Biden can somehow salvage something from the wreckage of his policies in the Middle East: Biden has so far failed to achieve his highest goals for the Middle East – but in his final days he can single-handedly reset the...
The Washington Post published a despicable editorial in response the International Criminal Court’s warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: But the arrest orders undermine the ICC’s credibility and give credence to accusations of hypocrisy and selective prosecution. The...
Alex de Waal calls for international action to halt the famines in Gaza and Sudan: The Gaza figures are particularly shocking because, before October last year, acute malnutrition levels were about 1% and general mortality was just a quarter of the background rates in...
The Washington Post published an article Saturday with a headline saying that Iran hawks would have “less sway” in the next Trump administration, and then the article says this: Trump’s election victory has meant that the GOP’s traditionalist foreign policy hawks —...
