(2025-12-17). The military's dependence on our citizen soldiers is killing them. responsiblestatecraft.org Two U.S. National Guard soldiers died in an ambush in Syria this past weekend. | Combined with overuse of our military for non-essential missions, ones unnecessary to our core interests, the overreliance of part-time servicemembers continues to have disastrous effects. President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and Congress have an opportunity to put a stop to the preventable deaths of our citizen soldiers.In 2004, in Iraq, in a matter of weeks, I lost three close comrades I served with back in the New York National Guard. In the following months more New York soldiers, men I served with, would die. In 2024, three U…
(2025-12-17). Trump Widens Travel Ban to Seven More Countries, Including Syria. moderndiplomacy.eu U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded a full travel ban to include seven additional countries, among them Syria, barring their citizens from entering the United States from January 1. The move builds on a proclamation Trump signed in June that imposed a full ban on 12 countries and partial restrictions on seven others. The White …
(2025-12-17). When Conscience Rewrote Australia: The Bondi Moment. moderndiplomacy.eu Moments of national trauma often reveal a country's deepest divisions. More seldom, they expose its moral essence. The Bondi terror attack did the latter. Amid chaos, fear, and gunfire, one man moved not away from danger but towards it. Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Syrian-born Australian father of four, wrestled a rifle from an attacker and, in …
(2025-12-17). Residents in Syria's Palmyra recall tense hours after attack. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) — Residents of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra are slowly resuming daily life after a deadly shooting on Saturday left US service members dead and triggered hours of heightened security and fear.
(2025-12-17). Venezuela Condemns US Piracy Before UN as Killings Resume; US Debate Heats Up, and Trinidad Lends Airports to US Military Operations. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( The letter, presented by Venezuela's ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, to Security Council President Samuel Z'bogar of Slovenia, concerns the Dec. 10, 2025, incident in international waters of the Caribbean wherein US forces targeted a private oil tanker engaged in legitimate trade while it transported Venezu…
(2025-12-17). Russia—China Far East Gas Route Moves Ahead. moderndiplomacy.eu Construction is progressing on a planned Far Eastern route to supply Russian natural gas to China, Beijing's ambassador to Moscow, Zhang Hanhui, said in remarks published by Russia's RIA news agency. The project will connect Russia's Pacific coast to China through a new branch linked to the Sakhalin—Khabarovsk—Vladivostok pipeline system. Gas exports via the route …
(2025-12-17). Iran summons Cyprus ambassador over interventionist stance. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) — Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Cypriot ambassador in Tehran to protest the interventionist position regarding Iran's territorial integrity.
(2025-12-16). After Three Americans Are Killed in Syria, Trump Says 'We Have Legitimate Peace in the Middle East'. news.antiwar.com President Trump said on Monday that there is "legitimate peace in the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years," comments that came after three Americans, including two National Guard members and a civilian interpreter, were killed in Syria. The president made the remark when asked why the US has troops in Syria. "Because …
(2025-12-16). Dan Kovalik, the Regime Change War Against Syria, and the War Against Us All. globalresearch.ca Dan Kovalik talks about the West's destruction of countries, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Congo, the list is endless.
(2025-12-16). Car bomb explosion reported in Syria's al-Bukamal. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) — The local media in Syria on Tuesday reported a car bomb explosion that targeted a Syrian military vehicle near a mosque in al-Bukamal, east of Deir ez-Zor.
(2025-12-16). Belarus forges ties with Africa, Middle East at Moscow forum. eng.belta.by Belarusian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lukashevich held talks with ambassadors from a number of African and Middle Eastern countries in Moscow on 16 December on the sidelines of the Belarus-Africa business forum and told the media about their outcomes.