The president promised that any attack by Iran against the United States would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude!"
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon will be reducing troop levels in Iraq by a third.
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
Rocket attacks and "precision defensive strikes" will bring us ever closer to truly endless war.
"Does this advance American safety and security? Does it make Americans freer and more prosperous? The answer is no."
The administration has been quietly escalating against Iran and its allies using a selection of counterterrorism laws that allowed it to act without going through Congress or the public.
The framers of the Constitution were quite right that wars should be difficult to start and easy to end.
Sending Omar Ameen back to Iraq will likely result in his execution, and the case against him doesn't make sense. The Trump administration is fighting to do it anyway.
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The nation's only female Olympic medalist says she has permanently left the Islamic Republic due to the oppression of women.
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“Let’s vote on this and see who is serious about ending forever wars.”
The Cato Institute's Christopher A. Preble lays out a uniquely libertarian approach to Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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Tehran's response to the killing of Iranian military chieftain Qassem Soleimani threatens a deeper war.
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The vice president says assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was involved in the September 11 plot. That's as true as when Republicans said Saddam Hussein was.
About 1,000 left-wing demonstrators marched from the White House to Trump International Hotel to protest U.S. aggression against Iran.
The CIA and its defenders insisted that torture would help keep America safe. They were wrong.
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The Council on Foreign Relations survey of foreign policy experts finds "more threats...likely to require a U.S. military response in 2020 than ever before."
Several dozen protesters tried to storm the American embassy in Baghdad in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in the country over the weekend.
America's exit from Iraq could benefit both Iraqis and Americans.
Pentagon brass, who urged the president not to issue these orders, fear that the president's actions will undermine the system of military justice.
If Trump wants credit for ending wars in the Middle East, he'll have to actually reduce the number of Americans deployed there.
"The outsized power that the political parties hold can often be used in the wrong way to squelch our democracy and dissenting voices even within our own parties," says Gabbard.
If the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are any indication, the move would be a disaster.
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There is little to celebrate and much to criticize.
The head of Ideas Beyond Borders is translating books by Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and others into Arabic and distributing them for free.
Chaldean-Assyrians aren't safe in their home country. But reuniting with family in a new one feels impossible.
A lot of people are dying in unauthorized wars.
Obama's shamefully weak stab at transparency has been abandoned.
U.S. presidents like to go looking for dragons to slay.
The war will continue until further notice.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that Americans get due process when accused of terrorism, and yet...
Including homeland security, domestic surveillance, TSA harassment, veterans benefits, and interest on associated federal debt: $61,000 per taxpayer
How could we be repeating the mistakes of Vietnam already?
Despite threat inflation by Iran hawks, the country has limited capabilities.
A certain amount of danger is unavoidable in a multinational world. And the dangers of trying to achieve total security are the worst dangers of all.
A U.S. airstrike in Mosul could have caused the largest civilian casualties since the start of the Iraq War.
Bombing campaign in Yemen intensifies as additional troops head to Syria, elsewhere.
Her son, a U.S. citizen, had worked with U.S. Special Forces as a contractor and interpreter during the Iraq War.
The dissonance between the countries the Trump EO primarily affects and countries associated with 9/11 is embedded in U.S. foreign policy.
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