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No Yemenis are testifying before Congress. We asked 100 of them to speak about the war. Shireen Al-Adeimi collected and translated statements about the war and humanitarian crisis from scores of...

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Why Trump is right to withdraw troops. Doug Bandow makes the case for withdrawal from Syria. 6 questions to ask before starting your next war. Micah Zenko lists the questions that Americans should ask...

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How the Hawks Prevailed on Syria

Paul Pillar comments on Bolton’s maneuvers to keep us at war in Syria: The episode involving withdrawal and non-withdrawal of U.S. troops in Syria should be a lesson for those who mistakenly placed...

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Annotation of the Pentagon report to Congress on detainee abuse by U.S. partners in Yemen. Luke Hartig dissects a deceptive report from the Defense Department on the torture of Yemeni detainees by the...

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The Trump Administration’s Many Iran Lies

Since Trump took office two years ago, one of the main themes of his foreign policy has been a destructive and distorting obsession with Iran. From the very first week of his presidency when he imposed...

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The Total Failure of Trump’s Iran Policy

Paul Pillar joins in demolishing the awful Stephens column on Iran and the nuclear deal. Here he points out that any additional strain placed on Iranian proxies by U.S. sanctions has not changed Iran’s...

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How the Trump administration is making Hezbollah stronger. Anchal Vohra reports on how the administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran is already backfiring in Lebanon. “Maximum pressure”...

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Trump’s demolition of arms control. Paul Pillar explains why the president’s supposed interest in a more expansive arms control treaty is just an excuse to destroy the existing arms control...

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Bolton Keeps Trying to Provoke a War

Paul Pillar puts John Bolton’s latest fear-mongering on Iran in context: National Security Advisor John Bolton, aided by his comrade-in-arms Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is doing everything possible...

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End the Economic War on Iran

The economic war on Iran is one of the main reasons why there won’t be any negotiations between the U.S. and Iran under the current administration: Iran’s in no mood to back down. In Moscow on...

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What Happened to Putting Americans First?

Trump repeated his outrageous anti-Semitic statement earlier today: President Trump said Wednesday that Jewish Americans who vote for Democratic candidates are “very disloyal to Israel,” expanding on...

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The Costs of Trump’s Economic War on Iran Keep Growing

Paul Pillar comments on the attack on the Saudi oil facility at Abqaiq, and he connects it to the administration’s dangerous, failing “maximum pressure” campaign: Iranian leaders have been explicit in...

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New Trump Iran designation threatens humanitarian goods. Tyler Cullis explains why the latest Trump administration sanctions on Iran’s central bank will make it much harder to bring in imports of food...

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How Threat Inflation Warps Our Foreign Policy

Paul Pillar digs into why the U.S. inflates threats from the Middle East. One reason is that U.S. politicians and policymakers choose to define anything that other actors in the region do as a threat...

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A Confused Syria Policy Gets Even Worse

U.S. troops sent into Syria on an illegal and pointless mission to “take the oil” don’t know what they are supposed to be doing: US military commanders overseeing Syria operations are still waiting for...

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