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February 9th marked the first time in nearly two decades that the U.S. military went one full year without a trooper killed in Afghanistan action. Now, with newly minted President Biden weighing his Afghan options – and under immense bipartisan insider pressure to stay-put or even ramp-up – a simple question leaps forth: Does Amtrak Joe really wish to be the guy to needlessly bury the streak along with some poor kid from Wilmington or Scranton?
Look, despite his 40-plus years of experience – spent more engaged than most – on foreign affairs, Biden’s hardly been an expert-sophisticate. By mostly
Tuesday, 16 February, 2021 - 06:15
An Iranian woman wearing a protective mask walks past mask graffiti in Tehran. (AFP) Declan Walsh, Eric Schmitt, Simon Marks, Ronen Bergman and Asharq Al-Awsat
Iran is seeking to “activate sleeper cells” in Africa in order to attack “soft targets” in an attempt to avenge the killing of top commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike and its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020, reported The New York Times.
When Ethiopia’s intelligence agency recently uncovered a cell of 15 people it said were casing the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, along with a cache of weapons and explosives, it claimed to have foiled a major attack with the potential to sow havoc in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
After a Decade of Chaos, Can a Splintered Libya Be Made Whole?
An interim government promises peace, unity and democratic elections. Skeptical Libyans say they’ve heard this promise before.
Martyrs’ Square in the center of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, days ahead of commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the uprising that toppled the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.Credit.Mahmud Turkia/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Feb. 16, 2021
CAIRO Fluttering flags and ornamental lights in red, white and green went up on buildings and lampposts around the Libyan capital, Tripoli, this month to mark the 10th anniversary of the uprising that toppled its dictator.
VT: Israeli policies enacted during the Trump regime violate US protocols for arms sales and aid, particularly the “Jewish Nation State law” which deeply parallels South Africa’s apartheid pass laws.
Israel under Netanyahu has consistently been a blood enemy of the United States and Trump, Israel’s man in Washington, has killed 500,000 Americans, disappeared tens of millions of doses of COVID vaccine and destroy America’s standing in the World. Do these American deaths aid Israel? Do they aid Netanyahu and Trump?
Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of “The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President.” Miller was a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author; view more opinion articles on CNN.