The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars that always seem to invite more problems.
When anyone can have an air force, superpowers aren't as powerful as they used to be.
The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?
Afghans who fled Taliban rule with hopes of U.S. resettlement now face detention, extortion, and forced return.
Turkey is taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to crush the Kurdish-led anti-authoritarian uprising. And it's not clear what the U.S. wants.
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The new Nigerien military government has ordered U.S. forces out of their expensive air base.
U.S. officials ritualistically tout their respect for Iraq’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, but every U.S. president over the last three decades has bombed Iraq in some way.
A cabinet minister who once defended the right to blaspheme now wants a crackdown.
The narrow rulings concluded the platforms aren’t responsible for bad people using their communication services.
Four years after IS was officially defeated, the U.S. continues to keep hundreds of troops in Syria to fight the vanquished terrorist group.
There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
A Supreme Court case illustrates the potential costs of making it easier to sue social media platforms over user-generated content.
If the combat mission is over in the Middle East, Biden should follow—and make permanent—more cautious drone guidelines.
He claims he'll be "the first president to visit the Middle East since 9/11 without U.S. troops engaged in a combat mission there." But that's not true.
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In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.
Multiple children died in the raid, but so did the leader of ISIS—which makes the operation “successful” in the Pentagon’s book.
Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.
Biden rightly stuck to his guns when he defended the long-overdue U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he fails to apply the same logic elsewhere.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
A new, heavily investigated report shows a Pentagon uninterested in correcting its deadly errors.
"The plaintiffs failed to make out a plausible claim that the Pulse massacre was an act of 'international terrorism' as that term is defined in the ATA."
Seven children were among the 10 killed.
An independent investigation hasn't turned up terrorist ties or explosives.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
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The deadly Sunday explosion is a reminder of the hundreds of civilians U.S. strikes have killed in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon says 12 Americans were killed and 15 more wounded in a pair of suicide attacks near the Kabul airport. At least 60 Afghans died as well.
I witnessed firsthand how U.S. actions that favored one group inevitably angered another, which is why the war is an endless game of whack-a-mole.
Saying that American troops are in Iraq for "training and advising" and not "combat" might sound nice, but it doesn’t get them out of harm’s way.
He fought ISIS and volunteered as a medic for BLM. Now he's been arrested for threats against pro-Trump rioters.
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.
He's wrong on both counts.
President Trump's foreign policy flies in the face of his rhetoric.
The senator took a lot of heat five years ago for being anti-interventionist in Syria yet pro-war against ISIS.
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They have been loyal U.S. allies and don't deserve to be slaughtered by Turkey.
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ISIS' terror should not be minimized, but Washington should refrain from inflating it to justify unnecessary military action.
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"Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East?" the president asks-and gets a resounding yes from Republicans and Democrats.
There's no evidence this caravan is full of Middle Eastern terrorists.
The right-wing politician faces prosecution and psychiatric examination for posting pictures of ISIS atrocities.
Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.
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