August 7, 2020 Ford, Bush presidential adviser Brent Scowcroft dead at 95 Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and was a Republican voice against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died, a Bush spokesperson said Friday. He was 95.
July 15, 2020 Former top NY Times editor on Bari Weiss' bullying claims: 'If you are going to dish it out, you've got to be ready to take it' The departure of former New York Times opinion editor and columnist Bari Weiss does not signal a silencing of moderate or conservative voices at the paper, former New York Times editor Jill Abramson said Wednesday.
July 8, 2020 Massive 'ISIS drug bust' in Italy connected to the Syrian regime, not the terrorist group, analysts argue When Italian authorities announced last week that they had seized 15.4 tons of counterfeit Captagon produced by ISIS in Syria to fund terrorism it was lauded as one of the largest drug busts in history.
July 7, 2020 UN accuses Trump of breaking international law in Soleimani killing A United Nations report concluded that President Trump violated international law by staging a drone strike on an airport in Baghdad that killed the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani.Â
July 7, 2020 Leading Iraqi expert on ISIS, other militant groups shot outside his home Iraqi mourners and relatives on Tuesday carried the body of a respected analyst shot and killed the previous night in Baghdad after receiving threats from Iran-backed militias. Many Iraqis expressed their shock over the slaying.
July 5, 2020 Rocket fired at Baghdad's international airport, not far from US troops and diplomats An unguided Katyusha rocket was fired at Baghdad’s international airport Sunday night near where American troops and diplomats are housed one night after the U.S. military shot one down, according to U.S. officials.
July 5, 2020 Rocket fired toward US Embassy in Iraq hits nearby home, injures child: reports The attack is the latest in a series of increased activity for American installations in the country.
July 2, 2020 Sen. Tom Cotton: When Trump gets hawkish on Russia, Dems 'curl up in the fetal position' Although Democrats claim to be outraged over explosive reports alleging that President Trump had been aware of classified intelligence indicating that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of American soldiers, when the administration gets "hawkish" on Russia they "curl up in the fetal position," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said.
June 24, 2020 Pompeo increases bounty on new, shadowy ISIS leader to $10M as rumors of his death in Syria swirl Almost nine months after the death of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. Special Forces, it was rumored Tuesday morning that his successor -- the shadowy Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi -- had also been taken out, this time in an American-led drone strike in the northern pocket of war-torn Syria at some point earlier this week.
June 20, 2020 3 ISIS hideouts destroyed in Iraq, coalition says Three Islamic State (ISIS) camps have been destroyed in northern Iraq by coalition aircraft in coordination with the Iraqi government, military officials announced Saturday.