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Hezbollah south lebanaon
Middle East

Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality

Officials in Beirut know that any agreement with Israel would be dead on arrival at home

Houthis in Yemen
Middle East

Houthis v. Saudi Arabia: Round 2. This time it's regional.

After fresh clashes with the Yemeni military group, Riyadh finds itself at the center of overlapping wars and skirmishes, including Iran and Iraq

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.
Video Section

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Quincy Institute researcher Nick Cleveland-Stout has the most comprehensive data yet on the extent of this foreign influence campaign

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
Europe

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Of course this would also appeal to Israel, prolonging the Middle East war and potentially drawing European governments into the theater, too.

South Carolina Senators Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham,
Washington Politics

Before Lindsey there was Fritz, an anti-Iraq war, Israel skeptic

On foreign policy the former senior senator from South Carolina was as far from Graham as one could get, and was quite quite unapologetic about it

Trump oil fields
Global Crises

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

The US risks depleting its emergency petroleum supplies even as it escalates with Iran