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Trim Embassies. Don’t Close Them.
U.S. embassies are indispensable and should be maintained wherever possible, but intelligently focused trimming is still possible. The Department of State is determining how to reduce American diplomatic and consular...
Rules-Based Disorder: Why Ecuador Broke Into Mexico’s Embassy
A disturbing video of Ecuadorian police forcibly entering the Mexican embassy in Quito late on the night of April 5 and arresting former Vice President Jorge Glas has circulated globally,...
Somali Prime Minister Refuses to Leave Office, Deepening Political Crisis
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed of Somalia, also known as Farmaajo, claimed on Monday that he had suspended the country’s prime minister, Mohammed Hussein Roble, on suspicion of corruption. Roble refused to recognize this...
Embassy Attack Is a Setback for Iraq
As American and Iranian policymakers prepare for the accession of Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, violence between U.S. forces and Iran-backed militias has continued to escalate in Syria and Iraq. In...
Afghanistan Headed for Multi-Sided Civil War, Warns U.S. General
As fighting escalates in Afghanistan between government forces and the Taliban insurgent group, U.S. and international troops are steadily leaving the country, in accordance with President Joe Biden’s commitment to...
Iraq in the Crosshairs: Why America and Iran are Fighting Over Baghdad
Here’s What You Need to Remember: The embassy complex was built for a day when the United States had a one-hundred-thousand-strong army in Iraq and functioned as something of a shadow...
Battleground Iraq: The Power of Iran’s Coalition Rests on Its Influence in Iraq
The end of the War on Terror, as suggested by the near-simultaneous resignations of ISIS coordinators at the State Department and Defense Department, is something of the end of an...
Are U.S. Embassy Staffers Really Being Targeted with Microwave Weapons?
The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have...
Seven Consulates a Biden State Department Could Open to Jumpstart Diplomacy
When it comes to Greenland, President Donald Trump will likely be best remembered for his desire to buy the territory. The most consequential action of his term on Greenland, however,...
It’s Past Time For America To Rethink It’s Alliance With Turkey
Key point: America’s alliance with Turkey is barely surviving. The United States discarded its oft-misunderstood “two war” doctrine, intended as a template for providing the means to fight two regional...
How the Trump Administration is Using ‘Force Protection’ to Fight Iran
U.S. commanders have found a new legal umbrella to strike at Iran and its allies: protecting U.S.-led counter-ISIS forces. President Donald Trump has not asked Congress for an authorization to...
Like In Iran, 1979 Changed The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship Forever
2019 marks the 40th anniversary of 1979 – which, aside from being just another anniversary, was a landmark year for American foreign and national security policy regarding the Greater Middle East. ...