Saudi-Iran crisis a rebuke for US policy
By Dave Clark and Nicolas Revise • Yahoo Washington’s single-minded pursuit of the Iran nuclear deal damaged its alliance with Saudi Arabia, experts say, and fed…
These Are the Top 10 Risks to the World in 2016
From a weakened trans-Atlantic alliance to an increasingly fractious Middle East by Ian Bremmer • Time At the beginning of each year Eurasia Group, the political risk…
Scores Enter Germany With Fake Syrian Passports, Similar to Paris Attackers
Dozens of alleged refugees have entered Germany on fake Syrian passports, which were produced using technology similar to that used to forge documents for some of the perpetrators of the…
Iran Nuclear Deal Restricts U.S. More Than Congress Knew
By Eli Lake & Josh Rogin • BloombergView Members of Congress knew the Iran nuclear deal came with strings attached. They just didn’t know how many.…
Obama Admin Will Veto Counter-Terror Measures to Save Nuke Deal
Obama admin promises new laws will not violate nuke deal by Adam Kredo • Washington Free Beacon Secretary of State John Kerry is working to reassure…
Feds can’t say whereabouts of those whose visas were revoked over terror threat
Fox News Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The Obama administration cannot be sure of the whereabouts of thousands of foreigners in the U.S. who had their visas revoked over…
Hours After Obama Taunts GOP With ‘Widows’ Female Suicide Bomber Explodes In Paris
by John Nolte • Breitbart Once again, reality has intruded on President Obama’s divisive, his anti-science talking points. Just hours after the president used the term…
Most Asylum Applicants Are Interviewed by Telephone. Feel Safer?
By Nayla Rush • Center for Immigration Studies I attended USCIS’s Asylum Division Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting last week. It was led by John Lafferty, chief of…
The White House Thinks Obama Had a Very Good Year. The Public Isn’t so Sure.
The unemployment rate is down, gas prices and inflation are low, and the president notched some major accomplishments. But Obama remains a polarizing figure, and Americans are feeling insecure. by…
Critics: Obama Contradicts Himself on Middle East Strategy
Says he toppled Gaddafi to avert a humanitarian crisis, but failed to do the same in Syria by Daniel Wiser • Washington Free Beacon Recent remarks…
State Dept. counts ‘bringing peace’ to Syria as a 2015 win
By Eliza Collins • Washington Free Beacon The State Department is counting “bringing peace” to Syria as one of its wins in 2015. A boastful recap…
Obama: I Have “The Best” Strategy To Defeat ISIS, Republicans “Don’t Have An Answer”
RealClearPolitics In an interview taped Friday and relesased this weekend with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, President Obama says “the approach we are taking” to defeat The Islamic State “is one that…
ISIS is winning and Obama is at fault: Just two in 10 Americans think the U.S. is winning the war on terror
The largest percentage of Americans ever say the terrorists have the upper hand in the war on terror. Additionally, three-in-four Americans say they’re unhappy with the way the war on…
AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015
by David Crary • AP|The Big Story The far-flung attacks claimed by Islamic State militants and the intensifying global effort to crush them added up to a…
Putin Tells Defense Chiefs to Strengthen Russian Nuclear Forces
by Stepan Kravchenko • Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin ordered defense chiefs to strengthen Russia’s strategic nuclear forces amid rising tensions with the U.S. over the global…