Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday for the first time confirmed the death of Al Qaeda’s number two, who in August was gunned down on a street in Iran’s capital Tehran, and claimed that the country is allowing the terrorist group to operate there. On November 14, The New York Times reported that Israeli […]

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Commentary Middle East scholar Walid Phares warns in his latest book, “The Choice: Trump vs. Obama in U.S. Foreign Policy,” that a Biden presidency means returning to the disastrous foreign policies of the Obama administration. Phares played a key role in formulating Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy during the 2016 campaign. His book offers a clear […]

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis declared in an article in Foreign Affairs on Monday that the “America First” foreign policy had damaged national security, and called on Joe Biden to “eliminate ‘America first’” from U.S. strategy. Mattis resigned in December 2018, citing policy disagreements with the president, who had just ordered a troop drawdown in […]

October 27, 2020 Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Kosovo have all declared in agreements with the United States that say they’ll aim to safeguard their developing 5G wireless networks from Chinese-government influence, welcoming them into what the U.S. calls its “Clean Network” initiative. The mission of this initiative is to ensure that reliable, trustworthy companies help […]

<!–   –> <!– –> Oct 1, 2020 President Donald Trump tweeted a letter Thursday by former national security and senior officials under previous Republican administrations endorsing him for his re-election bid. “We are former national security and senior officials who served under the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, […]

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate a chief architect of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Wendy Sherman, to serve as deputy secretary of state, Politico exclusively reported Tuesday. Presently, Sherman has a senior counselor role at the Albright Stonebridge Group, the same firm where Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the president-elect’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, […]

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President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that Morocco and Israel have agreed to normalize relations, making Morocco the fourth Arab nation in four months to recognize Israel. Part of this deal will include the United States recognizing Morocco’s claims over the disputed Western Sahara region, according to reports. Trump said that the two countries would […]

October 29, 2020 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday morning condemned the arrest of three student pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong by its police force and called for their release in an official press statement. Over the past few years, mainland China‘s authoritarian regime has substantially furthered its control and influence over the Hong Kong […]

October 23, 2020 The U.S. Embassy in Turkey on Friday issued a warning that there could be potential terrorist attacks against American citizens and other foreign nationals in the capital city of Ankara, telling them to take precautionary measures. “The U.S. Mission in Turkey has received credible reports of potential terrorist attacks and kidnappings against U.S. […]

Listen to “Media manipulation and the presidential debate” on Spreaker. On Wednesday, the United States announced fresh sanctions on individuals and entities whom it views as “key enablers” of the massive human rights abuses committed by Syria’s authoritarian regime, Reuters and The Hill have reported. President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s longtime dictator, has been embroiled in […]

The United States on Tuesday levied a fresh round of sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, hoping the increased financial strain will bring a swifter end to the bloody civil war that has engulfed the nation since 2011. These latest sanctions target its central bank and blacklist several individuals and entities with ties […]

Joe Biden on Monday tapped longtime Capitol Hill aide Reema Dodin as deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Dodin once justified Palestinian suicide bombers during the bloody Second Intifada. Dodin, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, said in 2002 that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people,” according to the […]

DHS Two senators on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, one Republican and one Democrat, have proposed a bill this week that seeks to bolster the Department of Homeland Security‘s (DHS) visa screening process, amid shared fears of foreign Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists as its caliphate has crumbled, The Hill reports. This move comes after IS […]

October 23, 2020 Israel and Sudan are on course toward normalizing relations as part of a U.S.-brokered deal, the White House announced on Friday. HUGE win today for the United States and for peace in the world. Sudan has agreed to a peace and normalization agreement with Israel! With the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, […]

On Monday, the United States and Greece issued a joint statement calling for a peaceful solution to the ongoing dispute in the Eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey, according to POLITICO. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is visiting Greece for the second time this year, released a joint statement saying that the U.S. […]

The nearly 6,000-page COVID-19 relief bill set to be voted on late Monday sets aside $250 million in investment aid for the Palestinians and for encouraging Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in a provision called the “Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act of 2020,” the Breitbart reports. The Lowey Act, named for retiring Congresswoman Nita […]

Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote a Monday op-ed in Foreign Affairs in which he urges President-elect Joe Biden to ditch President Donald Trump‘s “America First” policy when it comes to his national security plan, saying that “the world is not getting safer, for the United States or for U.S. interests.” Mattis, who resigned […]

October 27, 2020 Before heading to the Midwest, President Donald Trump had some updates about the Middle East. Asked by a reporter about if there are any more countries in the Middle East who may soon seek to normalize ties with Israel, President Trump said he thinks that more countries in the region will soon […]

October 9, 2020 President Donald Trump on Friday’s broadcast of Rush Limbaugh‘s show, when talking about Iran, had some harsh words for the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, telling them not to “f— around with us.” “And [Iran]’s been put on notice. If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to […]

Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle said President Donald Trump is delivering on promises to end the Afghanistan War, whereas former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden failed, offering his remarks on Monday’s edition of the Michael Berry Show. Boyle noted ongoing negotiations for peace between the Afghan government and Taliban […]