by John M. Curtis | Oct 17, 2016
Threatening more sanctions against Syria and Russia, 64-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin knows U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are bluffing. Neither country has the stomach to protect Syrian civilians caught in...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 16, 2016
Telegraphing to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] that the battle for Mosul has begun, Iraq’s 64-year-old Shiite President Haider al-Abadi told residents of Mosul that their liberation is near. “These forces are liberating you today, they have one goal in...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 15, 2016
Raising the most important issue in the 2016 presidential campaign, 85-year-old former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev worried about prospects of war with the United States. With the U.S. and Russia on opposite sides in Syria, President Barack Obama backed the Saudi...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 14, 2016
Fingering 70-year-old GOP nominee real estate mogul Donald Trump for threatening the First Amendment, the Committee to Protect Journalists called Trump’s critiques “unknown in modern history.” Denouncing Trump, Sandra Mims Rowe, chairwoman of CPJ’s board, ripped Trump...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 13, 2016
Leveling Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels’ radar sites off the Yemen coast in the Red Sea, President Barack Obama responded to missile attacks Sunday, Oct. 9 and Monday Oct. 10 on the Destroyer U.S.S. Mason. Backed by Iran, Houthis seized April 2, 2015 Yemen’s Port of...