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by Ricky Zipp | Feb 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
Update: WASHINGTON — The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Saturday calling for a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, but not before continued airstrikes and shelling in the eastern suburbs of Damascus left at least 22 more people...
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by Ricky Zipp | Feb 22, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – One of Syria’s deadliest periods in its seven-year long civil war continued unabated Thursday, amid efforts at the United Nations to impose a 30-day cease fire to permit the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged Eastern Ghouta. The UN Security...
by Casey Egan | Feb 22, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Critics of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson say his proposals to slim down the State Department have hurt America’s ability to conduct diplomacy abroad. In a rare interview with 60 Minutes Sunday, he was on the defensive, saying the...
by Ricky Zipp | Feb 21, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Assad regime continued its bombing of a rebel held stronghold in Eastern Ghouta for a fourth day on Wednesday, escalating what was already one of the bloodiest periods in the prolonged Syrian war. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human...
by Yingjie Gu | Feb 14, 2018 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Global leaders will meet this week for the 2018 Munich Security Conference following the release of a new report titled “To the Brink – and Back?” forecasting growing uncertainty in the era of Trump administration nationalistic, “America First” policies....
by Ricky Zipp | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s new nuclear strategy emphasizes a strategic shift towards the use of “low-yield” nuclear weapons to increase deterrence against mounting nuclear threats from Russia, China, and North Korea. Experts have questioned this...
