Bad blood between neighbors leading to war.
Early Saturday morning, February 28, Europeans woke up to the news that U.S. President Donald Trump had launched missile strikes against Iran. Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the Shiite fundamentalist who had been leading Iran since 1989, was killed — and the Middle Eastern conflict escalated when Iranian missiles aimed at U.S. military installations in…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday said President Trump has launched an “all-out war” in the Middle East after a series of strikes on Iran over the weekend. Jeffries and other Democrats have remained unsupportive of the attacks, questioning the military strategy in the region given past tensions and alleging Trump’s actions are…
The U.S. and Israel launched the first strikes in the early morning of Saturday.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his support for US military action in Iran came “with regret” because the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order.
“Just when I thought I was out,” Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone says in The Godfather Part III, “they pull me back in.” For the United States and the Middle East, it’s a familiar feeling. The U.S. once again finds itself at war in a part of the world that some historians have called a “labyrinth.”…
