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Esper named new US acting defense secretary after Shanahan withdraws

US President Donald Trump said his pick for defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, has withdrawn, leaving the Pentagon without a permanent boss for more than six months

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Raqqa security deteriorates as US drawdown threatens northern Syria stability

The drawdown of US troops from Syria has made Coalition allies’ sustained commitment to the counter-ISIS mission significantly more difficult

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Questions SecDef nominee Shanahan should – but won’t – be asked

Gregory D. Foster proposes questions that would shed much-needed light on the thinking of Patrick Shanahan who is about to officially occupy the Defense Secretary post

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Trump approves plan to deploy 1,500 more US troops to counter Iran in the Persian Gulf

President Donald Trump will deploy 1,500 US troops to counter Iran in the region with plans for additional assets and weapons sales to allies

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Trump nominates former Aerospace Corporation chair to head US Air Force

US President Donald Trump announced he had nominated Barbara Barrett, a former Aerospace Corporation chair, to lead the Air Force

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US threatens EU with trade war over weapons

The US has all but threatened the EU with a trade war over plans to boost cooperation between member states on military spending

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US and Iran sound the retreat after beating drums of war

US and Iranian leadership displayed rare agreement in comments as officials sought to publicly downplay the possibility of military conflict

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Weak UN resolution exposes conflict between sexual violence survivors’ needs and political ideology

UN Security Council Resolution 2467 on sexual violence in conflict prioritized political consensus over survivors

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Trump says US will revoke UN Arms Trade Treaty

President Donald Trump said the US would not abide by a UN treaty aimed at regulating the global conventional arms trade, calling it an encroachment on sovereignty.

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The US-Israel ‘special relationship’ subsidizes American military industry and Israeli colonialism

The US military industry profiting from the colonization of Palestinian land is a long-term structuring element of the US-Israel special relationship, Anna Badillo argues

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