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JOE Biden has accused Boris Johnson of "inflaming" tensions in Ireland ahead of their first meeting in Britain today. The President is expected to address post-Brexit peace with the Prime Minister to ensure that the Good Friday Agreement is protected - as Britain and the EU try to resolve the issue of checks in the Irish Sea... ...Yael Lempert, America’s most senior diplomat in Britain, told Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, that the government was “inflaming” tensions in Ireland and Europe with its opposition to checks at ports. Lempert said she had been told to take the step of issuing...

Although the recent Syrian airstrikes were double the size of last year's, President Trump reportedly selected one of the more restrained proposals designed by the Pentagon. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported that Trump was presented with a wide array of options. There were intense discussions on the best approach after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis presented the three military options, the report said. Trump chose a restrained response. The paper reported that the most expansive proposal included airstrikes on Russian air defense capabilities in Syria. The attack would have been three times the size of the operation carried...

INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS woke up on September 5 to unsettling news. The government of Pakistan, they learned, had entered into a peace agreement with the Taliban insurgency that essentially cedes authority in North Waziristan, the mountainous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, to the Taliban and al Qaeda. Just ten days later, the blow was compounded when the government of Pakistan released a large number of jihadists from prison. Together, these events may constitute the most significant development in the global war on terror in the past year--yet the media have taken little notice. For four years, the Pakistani military engaged in a...

Iraq Crisis March 16th, 2003 Within the past weeks it has apparently been the aim of German foreign policy to isolate America in the United Nations Security Council. This is shown in a confidential wire report of the German UN ambassador, Pleuger. It concerned impeding the latest attempts for consensus with America and, therefore, to force Washington to go it alone against Iraq. The report has been made available to the “Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung”. At the same time, there are considerations in the Federal Government to use the issue of the reconstruction after a war as a means, in the...