The U.S. military campaign against Iran has put Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the back foot ahead of an expected summit with Trump, who for the second time in as many months has turned America's military against one of Beijing's close partners.
U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply escalate tensions in the country .
Smoke was seen rising in the vicinity of the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait after Iran and Iranian-backed militias targeted Israel and Arab states with missile attacks.
by Oleksiy Kolomiyets - President, The Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies
At the moment, what we see is that the Iranian missiles are practically invulnerable, penetrating the airspace of the Persian Gulf countries, and the question is, where is the THAAD system, and where is the Patriot system?
by Oleksiy Kolomiyets - President, The Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies
Trump is approaching one of his most shouting disasters in the long list of disasters that he already has behind his back for an extremely tight first year of his second visit to the White House. The Iran disaster.
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