List of United States articles
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South Korea's K-1 tank fires during a joint military drill between US and South Korean Marines at a fire training field in the southeastern port of Pohang on July 6, 2016. South Korea and the United States are conducting a joint marine infiltration and attack exercise, testing the interoperability of the two countries' forces for a potential operation against North Korea. / AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) A Sneak Peek at America’s War Plans for North Korea
The Pentagon has been running war games for years, and the results aren’t pretty.
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<> on May 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. Senate Committee Votes Against Administration on Anti-Abortion Global Gag Rule
The surprise move is a direct repudiation of Trump’s approach to foreign aid and reproductive rights.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 6: Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) arrives at the Capitol ahead of the weekly party luncheons September 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. Legislators from both parties are preparing for an intense calendar of issues in the coming weeks including tax and immigration reform. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) The Senate’s Russia Investigators Need to Slow Down
The chairman is trying to hurry to wrap things up, but there's a ton more work to do.
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South Korean soldiers stand guard at a guard post near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing two Koreas in the border city of Paju on August 11, 2017. As nuclear-armed North Korea's missile stand-off with the US escalates, calls are mounting in the South for Seoul to build nuclear weapons of its own to defend itself -- which would complicate the situation even further. / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) The United States Should Talk to North Korea
Trump needs to focus on reassuring U.S. allies, engage with North Korea, and stop doing Pyongyang favors.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 05: Traditional Mayan dancers march past the Metropolitan Detention Center as undocumented people jailed inside tap on the windows in opposition to the President Trump order end to DACA on September 5, 2017 in Los Angeles, United States. The Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protects young immigrants who grew up in the U.S. after arriving with their undocumented parents from deportation to a foreign country. The executive order by the president removes protection for about 800,000 current "dreamers", about 200,000 of whom live in Southern California. Congress has the option to replace the policy with legislation before DACA expires on March 5, 2018. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Trump’s DACA Decision Defies All Norms
The president's incompetence continues to temper his malevolence.
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Task Force Flying Dragons Aviators Fly to Operating Base Fenty Here we go again in Afghanistan
The newly announced Afghanistan strategy differs only in style, not substance, from the strategies of the past, and certainly from the current strategy.
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U.N. Commission Calls Out Syrian Government for Sarin Attack
The long-awaited report says the Syrian air force carried out the bombing.
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (C) visits on August 15, 2017, the Al-Nimir camp in the Sudanese state of East Darfur for an on-the-ground assessment of the situation of South Sudanese refugees living in Sudan. More than 5,000 South Sudanese refugees live in Al-Nimir camp where they arrived after fleeing war and famine in their country. / AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Sanctions South Sudanese Leaders
The measures single out the offshore fortunes of top generals and officials.
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Iraqi Kurdish demonstrators wave the Kurdish flag during a protest demanding for the independence of Kurdistan outside the United Nations offices in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region, on August 23, 2014. About 700,000 Iraqis have gathered in the Kurdish north after being driven from their homes by jihadist Islamic State (IS) fighters, the UN said as it stepped up a massive aid operation to the region. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images) The Kurds Are Not Children
They have earned their independence, and the West must get out of the way.
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usaid crop Report: U.S. Ranks Near Bottom in Commitment to Global Development
And it could drop even further under Trump.
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 10: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump (L) following a meeting in the Oval Office November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to meet with members of the Republican leadership in Congress later today on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Here’s How to Build an Alternative Agenda in the Age of Donald Trump
It’s time for cooler heads to offer an alternative and affirmative agenda for American foreign policy and national security.
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VILNIUS, LITHUANIA - NOVEMBER 23: A mural depicts U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (R) blowing marijuana smoke into the mouth of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the wall of a bar-b-que restaurant on November 23, 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Many people in the three Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are concerned that Russia, because Trump has expressed both admiration for Putin and doubt over defending NATO member states, will be emboldened to intervene militarily in the Baltics. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Key Figure Behind ‘Trump Dossier’ Stonewalled Senate Investigators
Glenn Simpson invoked his First Amendment rights to protect sources for salacious claims of collusion.
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Photo taken on January 11, 2011 shows containers stacked up at a terminal in the southeastern port city of Busan. South Korea's economy grew at an eight-year high of 6.1 percent last year, the central bank said on January 26, 2011, with fourth-quarter growth slowing compared with July-September but rising from a year earlier. AFP PHOTO / PARK JI-HWAN (Photo credit should read PARK JI-HWAN/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Is Considering the Worst Possible Response to the North Korean Threat
Withdrawal from KORUS would be a self-inflicted wound.
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Assyrian Christians from Syria and Iraq, receive communion during a Christmas mass at Saint Georges church in an eastern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on December 25, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO / AFP / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images) We Are Witnessing the Elimination of Christian Communities in Iraq and Syria
It's time for the United States to act.
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TOPSHOT - This picture taken on September 3, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 4, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) attending a meeting with a committee of the Workers' Party of Korea about the test of a hydrogen bomb, at an unknown location. North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile on September 3 and called its sixth and most powerful nuclear test a "perfect success", sparking world condemnation and promises of tougher US sanctions. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Needs a Real North Korea Strategy, Fast
Here’s what it should look like.
