“Escalation is in no one’s interest,” Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesperson, told reporters in a briefing on Monday. He added that the United States did not consider escalation “inevitable” and was sending messages to Iran through its allies in the region that a...
Since CNN didn’t say that what he did say isn’t true, but that he omitted some things, I have to classify this as true. (t) Trump lies when he says Iran didn’t break the nuclear agreement. Iran flaunted its breaking of the agreement. Saying they didn’t break it at all is ...
when U.S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie toldSaddam Husseinthat the United States had no official position on border disputes between Arab countries, Saddam took that as a green light to aggression. Of course, he did far more than redraw a border; he grabbed all of Kuwait in August of...
And while they spent a significant amount of time on foreign policy — talking about Israel, Ukraine and China — they spent hardly any time talking about North Korea, though Trump at one point bragged in the third person that the country was “afraid of him” when he w...
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In October 2016, an unknown group of criminals launched a massive 25 DDoS assault on the servers of Dyn, an American company which is vital for 26 the smooth functioning of the internet. The attack led to large parts of the 27 internet on the American East Coast going down for sever...
Israel Russia’s attack on Ukraine has placed Israel, a staunch U.S. ally, in a delicate position. Initially cautious in its reaction, Israel has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in increasingly tough language, but so far has not joined with other democracies in imposing ec...
An Israeli anti-missile system operates on April 14 after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel. Amir Cohen/Reuters CNN — An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, marking a ...
The administration’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement has also fueled a repressive atmosphere on campuses following the detention of several students who took part in campus protests against Israel and some who did not. The Trump administration last week won a deportation order from a Louis...
Gen. Yahya Saree has said the group wants to “prevent Israeli ships from navigating the Red Sea (and Gulf of Aden) until the Israeli aggression against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops.” But few of the ships targeted have had direct links to Israel. In a recent...