Congress Prepares to Unload on Trump’s Disastrous Syria Policy
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty When President Donald Trump announced his decision to permit a Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria last week, outraged lawmakers were on recess and left with little recourse to register their concerns about the fate of the Kurds outside of Twitter and the Sunday news shows. Now they are assembling back in Washington for…
Mayor Pete Decries Trump’s Decision to Withdraw Troops from Northern Syria
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a forum on Friday, June 21, 2019, in Miami.Brynn Anderson Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg excoriated President Donald Trump and his administration Sunday morning for the decision to withdraw the remaining US troops out of northern Syria in the…
“The Americans Are Traitors”: Trump Faces a Major Backlash Over Syria Announcement
President Donald Trump greets Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in June at the G20 summit in Japan.Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Donald Trump upended US military policy in the Middle East Sunday night, announcing through a White House statement that he would permit a “long-planned” Turkish invasion of northern Syria, a region controlled mainly by Kurds who…
Trump Keeps Contradicting Himself on Iran
Chip Somodevilla/Getty The long-simmering feud between the United States and Iran roared back to life Saturday as the Trump administration pinned blame on Tehran for the recent attacks against crucial Saudi Arabian oil facilities that were carried out with a fleet of drones. The Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group fighting the Saudi-led military coalition in…
Mattis Aide’s Tell-All Book Cleared for Release After Months-Long Delay by the Pentagon
Zach Gibson/Getty A former aide to Defense Secretary James Mattis is moving forward with the release of a book his publisher has hyped as a “sometimes shocking account” of the Pentagon under President Donald Trump, less than two weeks after he sued the Pentagon over claims that officials delayed its release to help Mattis. Guy…
Trump’s National Security Team Is Now a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Defense Industry
President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One prior to departing from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on March 2, 2017.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty With John Bolton out as national security adviser, the defense industry is poised to receive even more representation in the highest levels of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team. Bolton deputy Charlie…