An enormous amount of coverage has been placed on the United States for instituting a drone strike which killed General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, but what has been missing since the attack is the total dysfunction of the Iraqi government in Baghdad.

A Taliban spokesperson has claimed that the organization has finalized a peace deal with the U.S. to end more than 18 years of war.

With Russia seeking to regain lost territory in Eastern Europe and to reestablish itself as a great power coupled with an expansionist China in Asia the United States has begun to re-calibrate its own national security strategy back to strategic power competition.

Iran and North Korea are updating their aging fleets and building new and more advanced submarines in order to counter their adversaries in open waters.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie abruptly fired the second-highest department official on Monday, saying he had lost confidence in his ability to perform the job.