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The deadly ambush in Niger last October that left four U.S. serviceman dead prompted months of hand-wringing inside the Pentagon. But that botched operation, which drew national attention to U.S. counterterror operations throughout Africa should not have shocked military leadership, the former commander of U.S. Special Operations forces in Africa told VICE News...

On Friday, November 16, the Central Intelligence Agency released a report concluding that the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was responsible for ordering the assassination of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October...

And then voted against the measure that would get America out of the Kingdom's war in Yemen...

At this point, the evidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew about—and likely ordered—the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is compelling. After CIA Director Gina Haspel’s presentation to Congress earlier this week, Senator Bob Corker told reporters that a jury would find the prince guilty “in thirty minutes.” The only holdout is the president, who continues to stand by his statement that “we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi.”

Washington, D.C.-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld was among the top-earning registrants overall, with total payments since 2017 of $16.5 million from clients including the United Arab Emirates, Japan and Canada. Among other law firms, Squire Patton Boggs received $5.8 million from clients including Croatia, China and Saudi Arabia, while DLA Piper took in $4.7 million from the governments of Timor-Leste and Bahrain, among others...

Each month Indy Audio presents the latest issue of The Indypendent in audio form...

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory...

The return of budget caps and the prospect of sequestration haunted the Reagan forum, dominating the discussion at times. Mattis talked about it, as did the panel I led with Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, and former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work...

Ben Freeman's remarks for Frontiers of Freedom's conference on Saudi Arabia and UAE: Regional Adventures and U.S. Interests...

Resistance is already forming to a proposed decrease in 2020 spending. It’s important to understand just what that decrease means...

It’s finally moving left on foreign policy...

Congress wants to punish Saudi Arabia, and blocking arms sales to Riyadh is one option. But even an outright ban on selling U.S. weaponry to the kingdom is unlikely to affect Saudi behavior...