Riyadh Turns East
It's official: Saudi Arabia has begun to seek other suitors.
It's official: Saudi Arabia has begun to seek other suitors.
In July, a U.N. panel of experts released a new report on global terrorism, with some alarming conclusions. In it, they noted that East and West Africa have been the world regions hardest hit by terrorism over the past year, and that terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria are fast becoming "an entrenched insurgency."
By now, it's beyond question that the Biden administration's hasty, uncoordinated withdrawal from Afghanistan is nothing short of a debacle.
Seeing Taliban convoys rolling down a highway might intimidate Afghans, but US defense planners should see them as targets begging to be destroyed.
A year ago this week, Israel and the United Arab Emirates made history when they agreed to formally normalize their diplomatic relations.