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Middle East

Israel wants US-led force to disarm Lebanon's Hezbollah

Lebanon prefers the UN to continue to provide peacekeeping functions at the fraught southern border but its mandate expires in three months

DC-based lobbyist Michael Petruzzello working for Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Washington Politics

He lobbied for Saudis after 9/11. Now he's repping them on Yemen

DC-based Michael Petruzzello has done image washing for Riyadh, now he's providing 'strategic communications counsel' for its friends against the Houthis

Flock cameras
Military Industrial Complex

The Pentagon gets flocked in a no-bid contract. What could go wrong?

The parking lot of the US military headquarters has been outfitted with the controversial cameras. There is a risk of it backfiring that is not inconsequential.

Donald Trump Lee Jae Myung
Asia-Pacific

Why South Korea won’t send military to Strait of Hormuz

Even after considering the US president's threats and the nation's historic ties with Washington, Seoul has insisted that the war in Iran is not its own.

Minab Iran bombing
Middle East

The US kill count in Iran makes the phrase ‘precision strikes’ absurd

Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Azmat Khan says the Pentagon still obfuscates, lies, and manipulates the truth about civilian deaths in war

AUKUS
Asia-Pacific

‘The Dragon’ defined: How three capitals reimagined China

David M. McCourt’s new book is an illuminating account of how Beijing came to be understood as a strategic competitor in the US, Australia, and the UK.