Kimberly Dozier

‘Chris was simultaneously the most glamorous and adventurous person who’d ever walked among us.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Afghan president’s national security adviser is in Washington warning that Khalilzad is selling out the Kabul government and may have personal ambitions.

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.

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.

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.

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan said the Pentagon is ready to send even more troops if Trump declares a national emergency.