FAREWELL TO AN ICON
‘Chris was simultaneously the most glamorous and adventurous person who’d ever walked among us.’
Kimberly Dozier is a Senior National Security Correspondent at The Daily Beast & a CNN Global Affairs analyst.
She’s covered conflict across the Mideast and Europe, and national security policy in Washington, DC, since 1992, first as an award-winning CBS News correspondent and later as AP's intelligence writer.
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YUCKS
The American president’s repeated embrace of tyrants, most recently at the G-20 and with Kim Jong Un at the DMZ, shatters what little confidence in the U.S. Europeans had left.
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BALTIC BIGOTS
They’re outrageous, racist, and misogynist, leading the press around by the nose. And while they say they hate ethnic Russians, they’re part of a Europe-wide Putin-loving movement.
DARK SHADOWS
An ‘informal summit’ in the ancient capital of Transylvania, of all places, tried to devise strategies to counter right-wing populists. But Trump encourages the worst of them.
ORPHANS OF THE STORM
Iraq’s Yazidi minority has forgiven its women for being enslaved and raped by fighters from the defunct Islamic State, but it hasn’t forgiven their children for being born.
END RUN?
The Afghan president’s national security adviser is in Washington warning that Khalilzad is selling out the Kabul government and may have personal ambitions.
DOLLARS AND SENSE
The president may say he’s cancelling joint exercises as a matter of cost, but the numbers don’t back him up. Really, it’s a matter of Kim.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?
ISIS fighters come back after dark. In many towns Iraqi government control is surface-deep, and ISIS remains the power to be challenged, or joined.
ASK FIRST
Barham Salih warned that Trump has inflamed a growing call inside Iraq to expel U.S. forces when the president said they’d stay to watch Iran and guard Israel.
BLOWUP
The restaurant bombing in the flashpoint Syrian city of Manbij proves deadly pockets of ISIS remain, but may only hasten President Trump’s moves to withdraw U.S. forces.