Although senior Pentagon officials and Vice President Pence have said Iran’s missile attack was intended to kill U.S. servicemen, Iranian leaders withheld their better, more accurate missiles and fired about a dozen that they knew would fall short of their targets. In addition, there are reports that Iran sent messages through diplomatic channels warning the U.S. and Iraq about this attack in advance.
Russia and China joined Iran in a four-day combined naval exercise while Iran’s Qods Force prepared attacks on Americans in Iraq. Warships from Russia, Communist China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran participated in the naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean from December 27-30. The exercise was called Marine Security Belt. …
The hundreds of Iraqi Shiite protesters and militiamen who tried to storm into the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday were led by a powerful pro-Iran militant group Kataeb Hezbollah.
There should never have been any doubt that the Iranian regime would return to direct strikes against American targets. Years of IED carnage against Americans and Coalition troops in Iraq by Qods Force-commanded militias elicited nothing more than gag orders on the U.S. soldiers who came home maimed.
With Chanel Rion, Bill Marshall and Kyle Shideler
Counterjihad efforts may be stalled at the federal level, but are very active in the states. Legislators from Idaho to the Carolinas successfully passed 20 pieces of legislation in 2019 aimed responding to – and preventing – both violent and civilization jihad.
Russian energy dominance of continental European NATO allies took a slight hit when US lawmakers made a last-minute attempt to derail Nord Stream 2, an undersea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. In a bipartisan move, the US House of Representatives sanctioned the Nord Stream 2 project this week, citing concerns about European energy security.
The UK’s Conservative Party triumphed in the general elections yesterday, winning an absolute majority of 76 seats — the biggest victory for the Tories since Margaret Thatcher won a third term in 1987. The election was Labour’s worst loss since 1935.
The US interception of a secret Iranian weapons shipment to Yemen rebels shows the Islamic Republic continues to destabilize the Arabian peninsula. For the better part of a decade, a civil war has ripped Yemen apart again. Many perceive the conflict as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, which borders Yemen, and Iran. Yemen is …
Once the political home for many British Jews, the Labour Party now faces a systemic anti-Semitism crisis. Leader Jeremy Corbyn fundamentally altered the Labour Party in 2015. His rise to leadership was accompanied by an affinity for Britain’s radical leftists and Marx supporters, including fervent anti-Zionists and pro-Palestinian sympathizers.
