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Boeing executives are mischaracterizing Congressional efforts to block a controversial $25 billion aircraft sale to Iran, according to lawmakers who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD about statements by executives from the aerospace company. The lawmakers reiterated calls on Boeing to drop its planned sale to Iran Air, whose planes have been used by the Iranian military to transport weapons, according to the Obama administration.
Upcoming elections in the U.S. and Iran could yield new leaders determined to derail the deal. The Mideast's wars pit U.S. and Iranian proxies in conflict, with risks of escalation.
The United States is stepping up its military campaign against Islamic State by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on the city of Mosul, the militants' largest stronghold, later this year. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter made the announcement on Monday during a visit to Baghdad, where he met U.S. commanders, as well as Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi.
In this Thursday, June 30, 2016 file photo, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter listens to a reporter's question as he speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington. U.S. and coalition forces will use the newly retaken air base in Qayara as a staging hub, as Iraqi security forces move forward in the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Carter said Monday, July 11, as he arrived in Iraq.
U.S. and coalition forces will use the newly retaken air base in Qayara as a staging hub, as Iraqi security forces move forward in the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday as he arrived in Iraq. Carter, who landed in Baghdad on an unannounced visit, said U.S. advisers are prepared to accompany Iraqi battalions if needed, as those units begin to encircle the key northern city.
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who arrived in Baghdad Monday, announced that the U.S. is sending 560 additional troops to Iraq as part of the battle against ISIS. The troops will be stationed at the key recently recaptured Qarayyah airfield, which is about 25 miles south of Mosul.
The United States will send an additional 560 troops to Iraq to help that nation's forces continue their momentum as they push toward Mosul, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday. The additional troops, approved by President Barack Obama, will bring the authorized number of American servicemembers serving in Iraq to 4,657.
U.S. and coalition forces will use the newly retaken air base in Qayara as a staging hub, as Iraqi security forces move forward in the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday as he arrived in Iraq. Carter, who landed in Baghdad on an unannounced visit, said U.S. advisers are prepared to accompany Iraqi battalions if needed, as those units begin to encircle the key northern city.
Iran has "gone from bad to worse" under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells Newsmax TV that he would advise any Republican president to tear up the nuclear agreement with Tehran on "the first day" in the White House. "I'd advise tearing it up the first day - and I'd advise establishing a policy to actively work covertly to overthrow the dictatorship," Gingrich, 73, who was vetted last week as a possible vice presidential choice of Donald Trump, told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth in an exclusive interview from Paris.
The Democratic Party's Platform Committee rejected an amendment that would have called for the end to Israel's "occupation and illegal settlements." The committee vote on Saturday to defeat the amendment was 95-73.
It is the world's largest gathering of those who advocate freedom and democracy in Iran. A mass "Free Iran" rally is being held in the French capital, Paris, on July 9. The event attracted more than 100,000 people who come together from around the world in order to make their voice heard, and in hopes of freeing and liberating their homeland.
The US Democratic party's slide toward an increasingly anti-Israel position, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has been halted, at least temporarily. During a meeting of the Democratic party drafting committee Saturday, supporters of Senator Sanders proposed an amendment to the Democratic party platform which would urge an "end to occupation and illegal settlements," in Judea and Samaria, as part of a general statement in the platform about the promotion of a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Thirteen years after British troops marched into Iraq and seven y... . Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of defense think tank the Royal United Services Institute , pauses by books at his office in London Tuesday July 5, 2016.
The late American diplomat George Ball once argued that Israel needed to be saved from its own suicidal policies "in spite of herself." In a 1977 Foreign Affairs article, he called for an even-handed push by the United States for an Arab-Israeli peace.
Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, said Sir John Chilcot's report underlined everything the group had been saying for more than a decade. She told the Press Association: "We have been saying for years that Blair was disregarding the UN and was in this hideous relationship with George Bush.
Thirteen years after British troops marched into Iraq and seven y... . Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of defense think tank the Royal United Services Institute , pauses by books at his office in London Tuesday July 5, 2016.
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Facebook was responsible for a spate of Palestinian attacks on the country's citizens. "Facebook today sabotages, it should be known, sabotages the work of the Israeli police, because when the Israeli police approach them, and it is regarding a resident of Judea and Samaria, Facebook does not cooperate" with the West Bank, Erdan said in a television interview Saturday, Reuters reported .
Elie Wiesel never lived in Israel, but on Sunday the country mourned the death of the esteemed author and Nobel peace laureate as though it had lost a national icon. A frequent visitor who was fluent in Hebrew, Wiesel was a confidant of prime ministers and a towering cultural figure so revered that two premiers considered nominating him to be the country's ceremonial president.
Donald Trump on Saturday deleted a tweet critical of Hillary Clinton after he came under fire for evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes with a graphic that included dollar bills and a six-pointed star. But 10 days earlier, the same graphic appeared on an Internet message board loaded with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and neo-Nazi ideology.
Reaction to the death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, 87, author of "Night." His death was announced Saturday by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.