Authored by Eric Zuesse,
It all began with the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in the Saudi city of Khobar, which killed 19 U.S. military, who worked at the Dharan air base three miles away.
That incident became the lynchpin of the accusation by the Saudi royal family, the U.S. State Department, and the CIA, that Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism.
It's clearly time for a caption contest.
President Trump joins other world leaders in a handshake with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, right, during the opening ceremony of the 31st ASEAN Summit. Photo @dougmillsnyt
Also, how did Medvedev get an exemption?
Since the beginning of the year, much ink has been spilled about the Army’s increasingly desperate attempts to fill its lofty recruiting quota for fiscal year 2017-2018: That is, 80,000 new soldiers. To hit that number, the Army has repeatedly loosened its recruiting requirements. Last month, the military introduced a new policy that would forgive recruits with a history of marijuana use or certain marijuana related criminal violations...
Early this morning, Reuters reported that Israel has intercepted and downed a Syrian reconnaissance drone approaching its northern border over Golan Heights.
The drone was shot down by the US-MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) system...
Over the Golan demilitarized zone that has separated Israeli and Syrian forces since the ceasefire after the 1973 war.
Lauren Izso, news anchor, correspondent for i24NEWS in Jaffa Port provides footage of this mornings incident...
Three days after the Senate Finance Committee shocked many of their colleagues in the House this week by unveiling a tax reform proposal that featured more than a few notable deviations from the House plan, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that he would not accept the total elimination of the state and local tax deduction, a provision that has become one of the most – if not the most – controversial elements of the Trump tax reform package.