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by Bing Xiao | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Although U.S. warships continue to test China’s control over the South China Sea, including a voyage last week that China called a “deliberate provocation,” the United States has little economic leverage in the area, policy experts and regional...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON | U.S. forces recovered the remains of two Airmen from the site where a U.S. aircraft crashed on Monday, according to U.S. Forces spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett in a statement issued on Tuesday. Leggett added that the remains, found near the crash site, were...
by Joe Snell | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and pro-Israel Democratic leaders sounded a cautiously optimistic note Tuesday after President Donald Trump finally unveiled his long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Pelosi said that “there appears to be...
by Joe Snell | Jan 27, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Israeli citizens are now allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time in the country’s history, according to a statement Sunday by the country’s Interior Minister Aryeh Dery. The rule applies to business meetings, including searching for new...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Testimony this week by the psychologist at the heart of the CIA program that tortured prisoners suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks on the United States has shaken the understanding that FBI agents were “the good guys” in the interrogation...
by Joe Snell | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A vote by the Iraqi parliament on Jan. 5 to expel U.S. troops in the country raises concerns about whether their absence will leave minority communities vulnerable to attacks by ISIS. “These communities can least afford instability and violence because...
