by Carolyn Cakir | Mar 10, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON–The two top U.S. generals in charge of military operations in Africa and the Middle East told the Senate Armed Service Committee on Thursday proposed budget cuts at the State Department could hamper the joint departmental effort to fight extremism....
by Shahzeb Ahmed | Mar 2, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON – House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s reported plan to slash the State Department’s budget would harm American interests and further strain the military. The GOP congressman from Texas warned...
by Fariba Pajooh | Mar 2, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have told Afghanistan’s leaders that the United States will stand by its commitment to the security of Afghanistan, but what that means in policy terms has not been defined. Trump tweeted in 2013 that...
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by Shahzeb Ahmed | Feb 24, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., said Thursday he would not divulge details of the new strategy being developed to defeat the Islamic State, but any such military plan would include a political strategy as well....
by Guy King | Feb 14, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Democrats in Congress are demanding changes in President Trump’s authority to launch nuclear weapons, claiming that the president is unpredictable and “ignorant” about such weapons. A bill proposed by Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Ted Lieu...
by Maryam Saleh | Feb 3, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON–Civil rights advocates and Democrats in Congress are reacting angrily to reports that President Donald Trump wants to narrow the scope of a program established by the Obama administration to fight the roots of terrorism by instead singling out Islam....
