Posts Tagged: Donald Trump
Syria’s Assad: United States Will Sell Out Those Relying on It
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned on Sunday the United States would not protect those depending on it, in reference to Kurdish fighters who control much...
IS ‘Caliphate’ on Brink of Defeat in Syria as Trump Urges Europe to Do More
US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State's last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to...
Iran’s Zarif Accuses Israel, United States of Seeking War, Violating International Law
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday accused Israel of looking for war and warned that its actions and those of the United States were increasing the...
Rouhani Says Iran Ready to Improve Ties With Gulf States
Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbors to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of US and Israeli aggression,...
Donald Trump: It Can Happen Here
Times are changing. In 1960, when I was still in high school, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. Immediately and intelligently,...
Netanyahu, Trump Lead Heads of State Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led a plethora of world leaders observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday. Netanyahu marked the occasion by welcoming three Holocaust...
White House Envoy Greenblatt Denies Media Report on Details of Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
US President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt has strongly denied a media report that claimed to expose details of the administration's...
Saudi Arabia and the West’s Right-Wing: A Dubious Alliance
While purporting to be focused on promoting a more tolerant form of Islam, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman is instituting reforms that are designed...
Trump’s Decisions Undermine Pompeo’s Pledges
JNS.org - There were a great many differences between President Barack Obama’s June 2009 Cairo speech and the address delivered on January 10 in the same...
US Officials Seek to Assuage Middle East Allies’ Fears Over Syria Pullout
In the wake of US President Donald Trump's surprise decision last month to withdraw American troops from Syria, administration officials have been scrambling to reassure...
‘Sand and Death’ or Opportunity Knocks?
“Sand and death.” With a phrase that sounded strangely poetic, US President Donald Trump prophesied what lies ahead for the armed forces of the United...
Bolton Warns Syria Against Use of Chemical Weapons
US National Security Adviser John Bolton has warned the Syrian government it should not see the impending US military withdrawal from the country as an...
Syria Is the Wrong Issue for a Pro-Israel Fight With Trump
JNS.org - Like most pro-Israel commentators, I’m appalled by US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria. Nevertheless, this is the wrong...
Syria Withdrawal Proves Trump Is Both Unpredictable and Unreliable
As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Trump demonstrated with his announcement of US troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan that his insistence the “world is...
