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They said he expressed his support for the Islamic State group and jihad on social media before he began communicating in October with an FBI employee who posed as an Islamic State group supporter in contact with the group’s fighters in the Middle East. … [Read more...] about U.S. Soldier From Ohio Arrested In Plot To Blow Up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial And Attack U.S. Troops In Middle East

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo painted an alarming picture of a close relationship between Al Qaeda and the Iranian regime on January 12. The timing and content of this statement indicate that the Trump administration is primarily concerned not with the rising Al Qaeda threat, but with heaping more pressure on the Iranian regime. Viewing every Middle East issue through the prism of Iran, which the incoming administration also seems to do, masks the reality of the Al Qaeda threat and drives the US even farther from an effective counterterrorism policy. … [Read more...] about Keep Al Qaeda out of the Iran file

Dennis Ross is counselor and the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as special assistant to President Obama, as Special Middle East Coordinator under President Clinton, and as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. He is the author, with David Makovsky, of "Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny." Follow him on Twitter @AmbDennisRoss. … [Read more...] about Bandar speaks out: the changing landscape in the Mideast

Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of “American carnage," Trump departs the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus. Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress. He will be forever remembered for the final major act of his presidency: inciting an insurrection at the Capitol that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer, and horrified the nation. … [Read more...] about Trump’s exit: President leaves office with legacy of chaos

The incendiary fliers, which also referred to project proponent District Four Supervisor Gordon Mar as a “CCP member” — for Chinese Communist Party — marked the opening salvo in a new west side development war. It’s a dispute that’s likely to escalate as city housing officials push to build both market-rate and affordable housing in neighborhoods that have been almost completely left out of the construction boom of the last decade. … [Read more...] about ’Slum’ charges fly in fracas over affordable housing in S.F.’s Sunset District