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Military Industrial Complex

US looking for 'new creative' ways to fight a war it's already 'won'

Trump attempts to spend his way out of a politically disastrous conflict with Iran, while the Air Force and Navy grapple with the usual production problems

Maria Corina Machado
Latin America

Maria Machado hiring DC lobbyists for access to Venezuela's future

The exiled opposition leader joins a parade of special interests that want to grease the skids as Trump world continues to dominate the country's economy

Shi'ite mourners stand in front of a banner with pictures of Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, as they mark Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in the southern suburbs of Beirut
Middle East

Trump wants to talk to Hezbollah. Will they pick up the phone?

Sources inside the group are being coy about negotiating directly, while Israel and Iran have their own reasons to keep the calls from getting through

Yemen strikes
QiOSK

Pentagon says it killed at least 150 Yemeni civilians in strikes

Critics say the 2025 numbers were lowballed, plus the DoD refuses to acknowledge civilian deaths in repeated boat strikes around the Caribbean that year

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chat after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Middle East

The Houthis could be first big test for Mecca mutual defense pact

How will Turkey and Pakistan respond to an attack on Saudi Arabia from its Iran-aligned enemies in Yemen?

thiopian Chief of the General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, salutes as he attends a public rally dubbed "Ethiopia Can", marking the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Africa

How the Egypt-Ethiopia feud could upend Trump's plans in Africa

The US has no plan for dealing with the complex rivalries that threaten its strategy in the region