Escobar: The New Great Game, Revisited

US Africa Command announced in a press release that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia on Sunday, March 8, the first known US strike in the country since the day the US and Israel launched the war with Iran. AFRICOM said that the airstrike targeted the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region about […]

GOP Blocks Congressional Democrats Attempt At Iran War Powers Vote (Update 1245ET): House Republicans thwarted Democrats’ attempt to unanimously restrict President Donald Trump’s war powers in Iran, declining to recognize the lawmaker who sought to offer it during a pro forma session Thursday. As Bloomberg reports, the forced-adoption attempt was destined to fail, but it previewed Democrats’ focus on rebuking the war in Iran when the chamber returns to session next week. Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) asked for unanimous consent to advance the Iran war powers resolution during a pro forma, or...