Report: US Withdrawing Troops from Syria

Beijing Threatens To Cancel Trump-Xi Summit If US Approves New Arms Sales To Taiwan Chinese President Xi Jinping used today's 18th BRICS Summit to push for a greater diplomatic role in Gulf affairs. The move appears to be transforming the bloc's economic weight into geopolitical influence, really positioning it as a counterweight to US foreign policy. Beijing's leverage also rests on its control over rare-earth and other critical-material supply chains, as it maintains a "quasi-monopolistic" grip on the industry that will persist through the end of the decade. Keeping that leverage...

How Trump's Iran Operation Turned Into A Forever War Authored by Harrison Berger via Responsible Statecraft, As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran War - achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran's support for regional proxies - U.S. officials have rolled out a series of tried-and-failed theories for how to achieve those goals. In the past four weeks, Americans have watched their government attempt to inflict an economic victory against Iran through Operation Economic Outcast, tightening a sanctions...