Yemen Civil War

Washington (CNN)The United States conducted a strike recently targeting Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror group's franchise based in Yemen that has repeatedly expressed interest in conducting attacks targeting the Uni…

In 2017, when Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed the reigns of power to his son, millennial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the thirst was evident. The Wall Street Journals editorial board declared the political sands are shifting, while New Yor…

This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment.  The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called on other capitals than Washington, D.C., to ensure a dignified life for human beings…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called on other capitals than Washington, D.C., to ensure a dignified life for human beings. Dr. King was an early…

Few people at the beginning of the last decade had any idea what a powerful political machine platforms like Facebook and Twitter would shape up to be – including, it often seems, Facebook’s own CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The 2010s were the decade that online acti…

The last decade showed how social media could topple governments and make social change — and it's only getting crazier from here (FB, TWTR, GOOG)

The U.S. and Iran have a complicated history dating back decades. From the U.S. involvement in the shahs 1953 coup of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh, to the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, to the U.S. killing of one of Irans top generals in January 2020, th…

U.S. forces launched a secret mission against a senior Iranian military official in Yemen the same day that the U.S. military killed a top Iranian commander in Iraqs capitol, The Washington Post reported on Friday. Four U.S. officials told the Post that the …

In late April 2019, I found myself standing on the 15-acre floor of the National Rifle Associations annual convention and gun show, looking at a gel mold that demonstrated what a hollow-point bullet does inside a human body. The mold showed how the bullet sp…

World wars are difficult to start, costly to end, and even when no one wants one, generally everyone can see one coming a mile away. We are not, despite what you may have heard on the news, about to stumble into World War III over Iran.While we have but two…