TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Officially, Saudi Arabia expressed surprise and a little caution over Friday’s offer by Yemen’s Houthi movement of a joint truce. The weekend, however, left little doubt as to the Saudi answer to this overture. At least 27 Saudi airstrikes were reported against targets in northern Yemen in just the last 24 hours. The Houthis described the Read More…
US sought to have Gibraltar give the tanker to them. Gibraltar has decided that they intend to release the Grace 1, an Iranian oil tanker seized by British forces in early July. That release happened Thursday in spite of the US legal efforts, though the Grace 1 has not actually left port yet. It’s not Read More…
On Saturday, the Israeli military killed four Palestinians along the Gaza Strip border. The four were armed with AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and bolt cutters. Israel’s military presented it as a “large-scale terror attack.” It’s not clear what group the four attackers were with. Israeli troops fired at them first, killing all four. One threw a Read More…
In a 398-17 vote, the House of Representatives on Tuesday passed H. Res 246, a bill which expresses opposition to the BDS movement targeting Israel. The language of the bill presents BDS as contrary to US policy, and claims that BDS is harmful to the two-state solution that the US supports. BDS, which stands for Boycott, Divestment, Read More…
With the House of Representatives passing their version of the NDAA on Friday, they and the Senate are gearing up to try to reconcile their respective versions to get something to the president to sign. That’s going to be an uphill battle this year, as the two versions of the NDAA are wildly different. The House Read More…
U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey has asked Germany to send in military personnel to replace U.S. troops to assist the Kurdish led Syrian-Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against terrorists. “We want ground troops from Germany to partially replace our soldiers,” Jeffrey told German press in Berlin on Friday. Jeffrey was in Berlin seeking Read More…