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Share Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reaffirmed “the strong U.S.-Iraq defense partnership in the fight against ISIS” during a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart, a Pentagon spokesman announced Wednesday. Phone calls between defense officials are nothing...

Sending more armed men is not the solution. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com   here. Is the U.S. secretly training Libyan militiamen in the Canary Islands? And...

Washington Fights Fire With Fire in Libya How Not to End Violence in a War-Torn Land By Nick Turse TomDispatch April 15, 2014 Is the U.S. secretly training Libyan militiamen in the Canary Islands? And if not, are they planning to? That’s what...

In a sometimes nasty second presidential debate, there were again several calls by the candidates for fact-checkers to referee competing statements, which we are happy to oblige. But even when Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton weren...

Elliott Abrams is reportedly under consideration to be deputy secretary of state—setting up a strange third act for the longtime Republican foreign-policy figure, and a strange No. 2 for the Trump State Department. Politico’s Michael Crowley reports...