Moscow Closes The Door: How Putin & Lavrov Hardened Russia's Line On Ukraine In Ten Days

Buried For 7 Years: Declassified Transcripts Blow Up Trump Impeachment Story In a long-awaited release that sent ripples through Washington on Monday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has declassified closed-door 2019 transcripts from briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson. The documents, withheld from the public for over seven years, reveal critical details about the anonymous “whistleblower” whose complaint about President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky triggered Trump's first impeachment - details that directly contradict the narrative of a neutral, non-partisan civil...

25 Years Later, Air Travel Still Bears The Imprint Of 9/11 Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, The terror attacks 25 years ago this week had enduring costs for America's commercial aviation sector. Today's domestic fliers are on balance worse off for it, with higher costs, fewer choices, and more delays. That's because, on Sept. 11, 2001, men who were part of the al Qaeda Islamist terror network bought tickets and boarded four passenger planes out of Boston, northern Virginia, and Newark, New Jersey. Once airborne, the 19 terrorists hijacked those planes...

Pakistan, Turkey & Saudi Arabia Trigger Mecca Defense Pact In a historic first, the Mecca Defense Pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey is now in force, according to the allies at an emergency meeting in Riyadh. It was only signed in August, but soon after it was formalized an all-out war between the Houthis and Saudi coalition in Yemen erupted, with the Ansar Allah movement now increasingly targeting Saudi civilian infrastructure, including airports and energy infrastructure. The Monday emergency meeting of foreign and defense ministers resulted in the top committee agreeing...