US Delivers Weapons & Ammo To Kurds Ahead of Syria Withdrawal

Ahead of the imminent US troop withdrawal, the US is sending large shipments of weapons to Kurdish rebel groups who have recently requested a no-fly zone be established over parts of Syria.

Alexander Rubinstein
بواسطة Alexander Rubinstein
SDF weapons | Syria

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria last month has been met with no shortage of condemnation over the perception that America would be abandoning its Kurdish partners on the ground in the country. The move would open them up to an incursion from NATO ally Turkey, which has no love lost for the US

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2018: A Year of Forever War in Review According to the “Adults in the Room”

Call it the deep state, the swamp, or whatever you like, but bottom line: during Trump’s first two years in office, there wasn’t, until now, any serious rethinking of American foreign and military policy, not in terms of peaceableness anyway.

Major Danny Sjursen
بواسطة Major Danny Sjursen

Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the strange combination of the two-year-old Mueller investigation and the good judgment of certain Trump appointees, the proverbial “adults in the room.” Remember that crew? It once included Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the

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Iran Offers an Alternative to US Occupation in Afghanistan

Iran is offering Afghanistan an alternative to US occupation, one based on peace, dialogue and diplomacy instead of sheer military might.

Nikolai Bobkin
بواسطة Nikolai Bobkin
Iran | Ali Shamkhani

The full-court press on Iran that President Donald Trump has put into play has not yet resulted in changes to Tehran’s regional strategy. Iran's influence in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen is growing, and now Tehran intends to outplay Trump in Afghanistan. Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (NSC),

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How Critics of Trumps’ Syria Withdrawal Fueled the Rise of ISIS

Too many of those protesting the removal of U.S. forces are authors of the catastrophe that tore Syria to pieces.

Max Blumenthal
بواسطة Max Blumenthal

President Donald Trump’s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washington’s foreign policy establishment. Former Secretary of State and self-described “hair icon” Hillary Clinton perfectly distilled the bipartisan freakout into a single tweet, accusing Trump of

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Both Leading Candidates to Replace Mattis are Maximum War Hawks

While “Mad Dog” Mattis was by no means a “hero,” it is almost a given that his replacement will be far more pro-war and pro-intervention than the outgoing secretary of defense.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Pictured left to right, General John Keane, General Jim Mattis and Senator Tom Cotton.  Photos | Associated Press | MintPress News.

WASHINGTON -- On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis would be “retiring” in February and that a replacement for Mattis would soon be named. Mattis’ departure had been the subject of speculation since late June, when it was reported that Mattis was already being kept out of the loop

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Trump-Tweeted US Troop Withdrawal Plan Would Hand Off Northeastern Syria to Turks

The Trump administration is set to rapidly withdraw U.S. military forces from northeastern Syria, where the U.S. has occupied around 30 percent of Syrian territory since mid-2016.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
U.S. Soldiers | Syria

WASHINGTON -- In what is being characterized by some as a “drastic reversal,” reports in both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have claimed that the Trump administration is set to rapidly withdraw U.S. military forces from northeastern Syria, where the U.S. has occupied around 30 percent of Syrian territory since mid-2016. The

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