by Joe Snell | Nov 6, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Islamic-inspired radical group Harakat Al-Shabab, once considered nearly destroyed as early as 2013, is now thriving across Africa by taxing populations in the countryside and brokering deals with local government officials, an expert on the jihadist...
by Joe Snell | Nov 1, 2019 | Featured, Politics
SUN PRAIRIE — President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday renaming the Sun Prairie post office after a firefighter who was killed in an explosion last year. Capt. Cory Barr, a 15-year veteran of the Sun Prairie Fire Department, was killed by an explosion last...
by Joe Snell | Oct 25, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Assyrian Americans from across the country pressured members of Congress Thursday to support a House resolution that would recognize the Assyrian genocide in World War I, a longstanding goal of the Assyrian community. Led by the Assyrian...
by Joe Snell | Oct 22, 2019 | Featured, Politics
BRUSSELS – While all eyes were on a Brexit agreement at October’s European Union Summit, France blocked expanding the organization into the Balkans over a fundamental disagreement on a vision of Europe. “We are too slow,” said French President Emmanuel Macron of EU...
by Joe Snell | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Peace and security for women in the Middle East is now a central focus of U.S. foreign policy as a means to creating a durable region for the future and bolstering U.S. national security, a senior State Department official said Thursday. “Societies...
