by Joe Snell | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Trade Bank of Iraq is expected to stop processing payments to Iran if US sanction exemptions expire next month, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The bank is used by Iraq to pay for Iranian gas imports that are used to power the country’s...
by Alec Bose | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The women’s march this past weekend included many different interests and policy goals, including those lobbying against war with Iran. “War is a women’s issue,” said Donna Farvard, organizing director for the National Iranian American Council....
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to shift $7.2 billion from the Pentagon budget to pay for his planned wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is “playing politics with the nation’s defense,” the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “It is bad...
by Joe Snell | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Iraqi Constitution lacks basic protections for marginalized communities including the Assyrians and Yazidis, according to a report released on Jan. 2 by the Assyrian Policy Institute. The study was released in the wake of massive anti-government...
by Mark Satter | Dec 6, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Foreigners responsible for taking Americans hostage abroad have long been able to benefit from western institutions and ways of life. A new bill aims to curb that, but some experts fear it goes too far. The Global Hostage Act, introduced last month...
by Joe Snell | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The chances that China will invade Taiwan have increased, but the risk might be too great, two experts said at a conference in Washington, D.C. “As each day, week, month and year pass over the course of the next decade, there will be...
