US Troops Spotted in Armored Convoy Near Manbij, Syria

March 6, 2017

American soldiers have been spotted traveling in an armored convoy near the Syrian city of Manbij, with a US spokesman calling it a “deliberate action” aimed at ensuring Islamic State (IS, formerly IS…

Chinese Troops Appear to be Operating in Afghanistan, and the Pentagon is OK with it

March 6, 2017

Opinion

There is mounting evidence that Chinese ground troops are operating inside Afghanistan, conducting joint counter-terror patrols with Afghan forces along a 50-mile stretch of their shared border and fu…

Russian South Asia Complexity

March 6, 2017

Opinion

Russian moves to improve relations with Pakistan to complicate its South Asian strategy? How Russia can mange relations with Pakistan keeping time-tested privileged partnership with India? Russian mov…

Drastic Changes in the Middle East Happen Unbelievably Fast

March 6, 2017

Opinion

The situation in the Middle East is changing at an incredible speed. The things unbelievable yesterday, become reality today. Each of the events becomes part of a bigger picture, with the region gradu…

If not Kremlin, Then Who Brought Trump to Power?

March 6, 2017

Opinion

For months we’ve been seeing titles like “the Kremlin brought Trump to power” and “Moscow interferes in the internal affairs of other states”, and it seems that the Western media has a never-ending su…

Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?

March 6, 2017

Opinion

Theresa May told us that Britain will celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration this summer with “pride”. This was predictable. A British prime minister who would fawn to the head-chopping Ar…

Fools on the Hill: Trump and Congress

March 6, 2017

Opinion

As I watched Trump recite, in his halting manner, the pasteurized prose scrolling across his teleprompter in the House chamber on Tuesday night, I felt a little twitch of pity for the beast. The wild …

US Contemplates Attack Against North Korea

March 6, 2017

Opinion

The fact that the White House is seriously weighing the option of using military force against North Korea is an obvious deviation from what President Donald Trump said during the election campaign. H…