What’s puzzling is why Biden would select General Lloyd Austin to be his secretary of defense because of – not in spite of – his role in the US retreat from Iraq in 2011.
The deal is the latest example of China, via state-controlled trading firms & banks, lending to struggling oil producers with repayment in the form of oil barrels rather than cash.
Kadhimi's govt is pushing a soup-to-nuts overhaul in the next three to five years. The path of least resistance would have been to wait until the general election next summer.
Washington needs an embassy commensurate with the limited diplomatic role it intends to play in Iraq now, but it should be executed carefully, without showing defeat or weakness.
The rocket was fired from Baghdad's eastern district and hit an empty building inside the heavily fortified green zone, which also houses other diplomatic compounds in Iraq.
There are striking similarities between current ISIS attacks and developments and events that happened in 2013-14 when it seized territories in Iraq and Syria.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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