Friday, May 11, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
North...
Waving their hands and flashing peace signs, the freed prisoners descended the stairs of their plane, flanked by the president and senior administration officials.
Their return to the United States removed a delicate obstacle as the president prepares to sit down with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, for a landmark nuclear summit meeting. But as Mr. Trump basked in the glow of floodlights and TV cameras, he indicated that the most difficult part of the negotiations, which include persuading North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, still lies ahead.
Why were these folks in North Korea?
Trouble...
Israel launched a deadly attack on Iranian positions in Syria, responding to an earlier rocket attack by Iran's forces on the Golan Heights, an Israeli-occupied area along the Syrian border. Iran's attack itself followed several strikes by Israel on its bases in Syria.
The earlier Israeli strikes came both before and after President Donald Trump announced he is withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Middle East-watchers warn that Trump's decision emboldens Israel and Saudi Arabia to take a more aggressive stance against Iranian forces and proxies in the region. They say it also marginalizes Iran's political moderates like President Hassan Rouhani and emboldens the nation's hardline conservatives and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, an elite military organization loyal to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
War, what is it good for?
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
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