Christopher Ghika

A man looks seriously through a crowd of soldiers in fatigues

Without proper intel vetting, could the US be headed toward ‘rushed war’ in the Middle East?

Foreign policy

Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses what intelligence the Trump administration has received about the threat from Iran in the wake of the administration’s partial evacuation orders for the US embassy in Iraq.

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