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    Iran Called the United State's Bluff in Kirkuk

    October 17, 2017

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    Garrett Thweatt

     Qasem Soleimani, leader of the elite Quds force of the IRGC and a key player in Iran's military actions in Syria and Iraq. He reportedly advised the PMF in the Kirkuk operation. Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

           

            Kirkuk, a multi-ethnic city near the borders of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) that had been cont...

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    Trump's Folly In Syria

    August 8, 2017

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    Garrett Thweatt

    A map of Syria. ar-Raqqa, Deir ez-Zour (transliterated as Dayr az-Zawr on this map) and al-Sukhnah are all visible. 

            The Trump administration has yet to elaborate on a strategic policy for Syria. While some changes have been clear, including delegating more authority to military commanders in the field, little has been done on a higher level. The Trump admini...

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    Good Rhetoric, No Policy: Trump's Speech in Saudi Arabia

    May 21, 2017

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    Garrett Thweatt

           

    US President Donald Trump greeted with flowers upon arriving in Riyadh, May 20th 2017. Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks, via Flickr.

           

            Donald Trump's "Islam" speech is in the books. Overall, it was a major shift for Trump himself, but contained relatively little substance and policy beneath the admitt...

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    Rouhani and Iran's Ripples of Discontent

    May 20, 2017

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    Garrett Thweatt

    Hassan Rouhani, the re-elected President of Iran at a campaign convention in 2013. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, via Wikimedia Commons. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

            Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won another term in Iran's elections yesterday. He thoroughly defeated his main rival, Ebrahim Raisi (a conservative cleric who leads the Astan Quds Razavi, a powe...

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    Republicans Are Gaslighting America On Comey's Firing

    May 10, 2017

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    Garrett Thweatt

     Recently fired FBI Director James Comey at a press conference in 2016. Via Wikimedia Commons.

           

            Shortly after the news broke that FBI Director James Comey had been fired by the Trump administration, a political shock that's dominated the news cycle since, the Republican rejoinder began filtering out from sources both official and unoffic...

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