The Pentagon’s $331 million invoice to the Kingdom and the UAE was another blow after a difficult week.
The Pentagon says that “errors in accounting” mean Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have not been properly charged for refueling.
Congress likely won’t take action to rein in the military powers it granted the president after the 9/11 attacks—powers that Trump uses with the broad aim of countering Iran.
“If there is a chance that I can help, then I’m going to swing. I’ll swing for the fences. I may get air, but I’d rather try and fail than to not have tried.”
The civilian death toll in the fight against ISIS is far higher than official estimates.
The human costs of facilitating Saudi Arabia’s proxy war