The Iranians—well known for smuggling weaponry to various parts of the Middle East—issued a threat to the US and Saudi Arabia if an Iranian ship claiming to carry aid is intercepted on its way to Yemen. The Iranian Defense…
Over four years into the Syrian civil war, and the United States still is working out a program to better train moderate Syrian rebels. The Hurriyet Daily News reported on May 11 that “technical reasons” are being cited as the…
US Secretary of State John Kerry proudly announced in comments to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty summit on Monday that they are the closest the world has ever been to a nuclear deal with Iran, as the June 30 deadline for…
Just when things didn’t seem to get much worse in Yemen—which sits along a key shipping lane for oil tankers—the civil war there has given room for al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the country to take control of multiple major facilities in…
A self-imposed goal of reaching some type of agreement with Iran by the end of March is rapidly approaching, and hundreds of American legislators have laid out their interests in what a deal should look like. 367 members of the…
The United States has taken the surprisingly stern step of threatening to adjust down their support for Israel at the United Nations, following comments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that now was not the right circumstances for a two-state…