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Iran’s Hand and Iraq’s Kirkuk Offensive

With ISIS out of the way, underlying tensions have come to the surface. On Sunday October 15, the Pentagon encouraged Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga to “avoid escalatory actions,” as Iraq gave the Kurds an ultimatum to withdraw from areas around the city of Kirkuk. The United States said it opposed […]

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Growing Up in War Zones, a Review of Shooting Ghosts: A US Marine and a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

‘Shooting Ghosts’ is a joint memoir, depicting the friendship, experience of war and trauma and long road to recovery of two very different individuals. Finbarr O’Reilly is a veteran Canadian photojournalist, formerly of the Reuters wire service, who spent the greater part of his career covering the African continent for the agency. Thomas J. Brennan […]

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Is Washington Ceding Syria to Russian Influence?

Goodbye ‘Timber Sycamore’: What will the end of the CIA program providing support to Syria’s rebels mean for the future direction of the Syrian conflict? President Donald Trump recently appeared to confirm a number of media reports suggesting that the US has scrapped the long-standing covert CIA program to provide weapons and training to Syria’s […]

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Israel’s Secret Arab Allies

TEL AVIV — United States and Israeli officials seem convinced that a regional peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world may be in the offing. On his recent trip to the Middle East, President Trump said that a “new level of partnership is possible and will happen — one that will bring greater safety to […]

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Trump’s Mideast Peace Plan Is Crashing Against Political Reality

Both Israelis and Palestinians are chafing under the Trump administration’s plans to revive the long-moribund peace process. Jared Kushner’s shuttle diplomacy to the Holy Land late last month may have caused more issues than it resolved. No sooner was the presidential envoy back in the air after meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah than an anonymous […]