Month: January 2020

Trump's Ground Game Against Iran

THE ASSASSINATION OF QASSIM SULEIMANI IS A SEISMIC EVENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. More than any other American military operation since the invasion of Iraq, the assassination yesterday of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head of Iran’s Qods Force of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, is a seismic event. The killings of Osama bin Laden…

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Schumer calls McConnell proposal on witnesses a 'trap'

As the standoff over rules for an impeachment trial continues, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell repeated Friday that he would consider a proposal to call for witness testimony — a stance that his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Chuck Schumer, calls a “trap.”  McConnell has said he intends to start the trial without a decision on calling witnesses, the…

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Bushfires rage out of control across southeast Australia

By John Mair and Will Ziebell SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Bushfires burned dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, fanned by high temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property, as a change in wind conditions merged several large fire fronts. By late evening, Victoria had 14 fires…

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Iran faces dilemma in avenging general's death: To strike back without starting a war

WASHINGTON — Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, vowed to exact “severe revenge” for the Thursday night U.S. airstrike that killed the country’s most famous general, but the Iranian regime will have to walk a fine line to respond strongly without provoking a war with the United States, former intelligence officials familiar with the region said…

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