by John M. Curtis | Sep 15, 2019
Responding to Iran’s threats of “all-out war” with the United States, 73-year-old President Donald Trump said the Pentagon was “locked-and-loaded,” after Iran’s Houthi rebels hit Saudi Arabia’s main petroleum refinery yesterday with a predator drone attack. When...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 14, 2019
Iran’s Houthi rebels attacked two of Saudi Arabia’s largest oil refineries, setting them ablaze, leaving world oil supplies in doubt when markets open Monday, Sept. 16. Iran’s role in funding-and-arming Yemen’s Houthis in a proxy war against Saudi Arabia has been...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 13, 2019
When the U.N. General Assembly opens Sept. 17, 73-year-old President Donald Trump offered to talk to Iran about U.S. sanctions, after Trump backed the U.S. out of the July 15, 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA]. Also known as the Iranian Nuke Deal, the...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 12, 2019
When the 10 highest polling Democrat candidates take the stage tonight in Houston for the third debate, voters will get a chance to see former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) at the same time. While Biden remains the front-runner...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 11, 2019
Released today on the 18th anniversary of Sept. 11, Osama bin Laden’s 68-year-old former Egyptian doctor now head of al-Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahri urged jihadists to attack U.S., Israeli, European and Russian targets. Zawahri inherited al-Qaeda, the global terror group...