Israel’s strategic situation took several steps back in the first week of the New Year, chiefly: The US pulled back from E. Syria under Russian threat, allowing Iran to move in. In just one week, the dire perils, which many military and political experts warned against for years, are suddenly looming on Israel’s northern border.… Read More Moscow: US-backed SDF faces “destruction.” Pro-Iranian Iraqi force crosses into Syria

The London-based Center for Nonproliferation Studies estimates North Korea has stocked between 2,500 and 5,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, which could reach extremist hands. It includes a large supply of VX, the deadliest nerve gas ever created, which was used to assassinate Kim Jong Un’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, at Kuala Lumpur airport. Only… Read More North Korea has up to 5,000 metric tons of chemical weapons

Philanthropist, entrepreneur, CEO, and cast member of The Real Housewives of Dallas, D’Andra Simmons, is taking a brief interlude from the buzz around Bravo’s diva drama to visit refugee camps and to meet families in Lebanon displaced by the ISIS war. Simmons will see first-hand the operations of private aid organization Mercury One’s program, The… Read More Star of Real Housewives of Dallas in Lebanon with Texas-based Aid Organization’s “The Nazarene Fund”

Government boasts of victories in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, alliances with Turkey, China and Russia to oppose the West plus the end of sanctions has not had the desired effect on most Iranians. Opinion surveys showed that 90 percent of Iranians backed the Syrian operations in 2015 but that dropped to 73 percent in 2016… Read More Iran: The Stupid Shah Syndrome Resurfaces

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, distancing America from its Asian allies as China’s influence in the region rises.