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Chris van Hollen
QiOSK

Record number of Dems vote to scrutinize Israeli violence in West Bank

Forty-six Democratic Senators vote in favor, but resolution fails in near party-line vote.

Mohammed bin Salman Donald Trump
Middle East

Clock ticking on Democrat effort to kill flawed US-Saudi nuke deal

Members will have a limited time after the midterms to bring a resolution to a vote. Then again, Trump's own conditions might spoil the pact anyway.

UNIFIL lebanon
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

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

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

DC-based Michael Petruzzello has worked for years to promote Riyadh's interests, even when no one else wanted to

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