U.S. warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites in a dramatic escalation—just the latest in a long, bloody pattern. From proxy ...

Ironies abound because the global system lacks an effective central political authority to enforce norms. The familiar realist maxim holds sway: there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends ...

The U.S. spy chief, who built her political identity opposing military intervention, is falling in line after the bombing of ...

Two recent essays published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare at the Foreign Policy ...

In the aftermath of US & Israeli strikes, Iran is at a crossroads. As well as a weakened ‘Axis of resistance’ the regime ...

Nonproliferation experts believe Iraq’s nuclear program went underground after Israel destroyed its reactor just outside ...

The CIA “caucus” numbers more than a dozen, and could well increase this year. The CIA Democrats in the 2024 elections - World Socialist Web Site Menu Search ...

About 2,500 U.S. troops are deployed in Iraq and a further 900 in Syria in an "advise and assist" capacity. One of the roles of those troops is to ensure that the Islamic State group is not able ...

Hence the idea of setting up an organization of this kind. As William Blum, an American scholar, wrote, “The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for ...

Her complaints in Iraq had already begun to hurt her prospects at the CIA. Her follow-up assignment in Afghanistan was pulled. She channeled her frustration into an appeal over her manuscript.

To this day, the U.S. continues to play a destabilizing role on top of the legacy of blood that it had already created in Iraq. From the 1960s and the CIA working with Saddam and the Ba’ath ...

Though Iraq still lingers in the American consciousness, the CIA finds itself in a very different, and more salutary, position today regarding the intelligence battle over Russia’s invasion of ...