by Jim Heath | Dec 20, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Military
Jim Mattis, the four-star Marine general turned defense secretary, resigned today in protest of President Trump’s decision to withdraw 2,000 American troops from Syria, where they have been fighting the Islamic State. Mattis went to the White House this afternoon in a...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Military, Trump
President Trump said today the Islamic State in Syria has been defeated, and some of the 2,000 U.S. troops battling the terrorist group will begin coming home. It was a surprise move that drew a swift rebuke from key Republican hawks and some foreign policy experts....
by Jim Heath | Dec 13, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump doesn’t have a complete grip on members of his own party in the senate after they delivered back-to-back rebukes of his embrace of Saudi Arabia. The senate first voted to end U.S. participation in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and then unanimously...
by Jim Heath | Dec 10, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Nine out of 10 European Jews believe anti-Semitism is getting worse, and a majority are increasingly worried about the risk of harassment. Anti-Semitism is worst and most problematic on the internet and social networks, according to 89 percent of the 16,300...
by Jim Heath | Dec 10, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Guns, Headlines
Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist, is poised to plead guilty in a case involving accusations that she was working as an agent for the Kremlin in the United States. The 30-year-old Butina spent years building ties to the National Rifle Association,...
by Jim Heath | Dec 10, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
It was the rally cry of President Trump, Fox News and Republicans for weeks heading into the midterm election. An “invasion” of people on their way to steal everything you had. But it turns out, as critics claimed, it was all just campaign propaganda. The...
