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Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power in 2002, a year after the formation of his AK party. But spending 11 years as prime minister wasn’t enough. In 2011, Erdogan changed the system, clearing the way for him to become the country’s first directly elected president in 2013. True to all incremental power grabs, he […]
Last Friday, following another uninspiring meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, Pakistan issued a statement that more needed to be done militarily to deny Taliban military gains and bring the group back to the negotiating table. The next day, the United States announced that it had conducted a drone strike against Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and […]
There’s an unseen world war that has been fought for years with no clear battle lines, few rules of engagement, and no end in sight. But it’s not a shooting war; not a war where combatants have been killed or wounded — at least not yet. It’s a war that pits nations against each other for dominance in cyberspace, and the […]
A series of coordinated attacks in three cities in Syria and Yemen on Monday by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) provides important new insights into the group’s current capabilities and strategy, suggesting that the months ahead will be increasingly violent in the Middle East and perhaps further […]
In a State Department press briefing that took place yesterday, spokesman Mark Toner refused to admit that the drone strike that killed Taliban emir Mullah Mansour actually took place in Pakistan. Toner originally suggested that he had no idea where the strike took place. Instead, he said that he doesn’t “have any more clarity of where the […]
For two years, Mullah Mansour tried to hide the fact that the supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, had died. And in those years, Mansour managed to keep the deadly Afghan insurgency going, even growing. But whatever satisfaction he might have taken from that feat did not last long. He had run the Taliban officially for […]
A US Army veteran who served in three combat tours of the Middle East is locked in a desperate battle to gain asylum for his Iraqi comrade before he is killed by ISIS. When Chase Millsap, 33, was on routine patrol in Iraq, his life was saved by a native soldier who threw him to the floor as […]
Leo took a giant leap of faith by giving up his career and setting off on a life-changing adventure. Read about it in “First Train Out of Denver.”
The improvised rocket launchers based on Ford pickup truck used by Iraqi police force. The Iraqi Federal Police (FP), sometimes called the National Police, is a gendarmerie-type paramilitary force designed to bridge the gap between the local police and the army. The improvised rocket launchers is a Multiple Rocket Launch System based on Ford F-350 Super Duty is a commercial […]
When you’ve got an itch, you scratch it. That urge is often caused by an irritation, which is how China and Russia perceive recent U.S. military moves in their neighborhoods. That’s what accounts for a flurry of dangerous fly-bys of U.S. warplanes and ships by Beijing’s and Moscow’s aircraft. But figuring out the root motive—and […]
“The State Department failed us. They did. That’s not a political statement. That’s just a fact,”
The conflict in Yemen cannot fairly be described as a singular war. The main war is being fought between a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states who back the Sunni-dominated internationally recognized government against Shia clans called the Houthis. But amid this, another war is being fought against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni-based […]
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