UNSC resolution promotes Mid East war
The United States did not abandon Israel by its abstention from vetoing the UN Security Council resolution condemning settlements that
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Barack Obama
ISIS strikes in Berlin, Jordan – and Mosul too
The city of Berlin and the Jordanian Crusader town of Karaka are 3,000km apart, but the distance did not stop
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Russian role in Aleppo’s fall impacts US politics
Aleppo’s fall to the Assad regime with the surrender Thursday, Dec. 15, of the Syrian rebel forces locked in a
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Trump Primed for Iran: Swallow Tough Nuclear Terms, Get out of Iraq and Syria
First insights obtained exclusively by DEBKA Weekly into US President-elect Donald Trump‘s backroom foreign policy deliberations indicate that Iran is
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ISIS seizes big Russian-Syrian T-4 air base
Islamic State forces pushed their assault forward to retake the central Syrian town of Palmyra Monday, Dec. 12. By
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With One Phone Call, Trump Fits China into his Evolving Policy Toolbox
When taken together, Donald Trump’s groundbreaking phone conversation with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and his outreach to Russian President Vladimir
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Mosul offensive folds, waiting now for Trump
The failue of the US-backed Iraqi army offensive to liberate Mosul – nine weeks after it began – could no longer
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Trump Transition Team Bids for Obama’s Hands-off in Syria and Iraq
Vice President elect Mike Pence, as leader of the Trump transition team asked White House chief of staff Denis McDonough
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Flynn-Patrushev Exchange Slows Aleppo Violence Ahead of Decisive Ending
US president elect Donald Trump this week addressed an urgent request to President Vladimir Putin: to hold off of bringing
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Now We Are Seven: Trump Expands US Military Ops HQ in Jordan
The MOC-Military Operations Room has changed shape more than once since it was inaugurated by Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chief of
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