US President Donald Trump will emerge from the longest government shutdown in US history politically weakened, his reputation questioned and his signature campaign promise still glaringly unfulfilled, according to AP Analysis.

After a week of support from the US State Department, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself the interim president of Venezuela. President Trump almost immediately followed this with a formal recognition of the change!

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Aref Ebrahimi, a researcher and scholar in the Islamic Seminary of ‎Qom, said. “In order to continue its arrogant policies, the United States has sharpened its ‎claws and teeth over Venezuela.”‎

The presence of US occupying troops inside Iraq is still major political issue, with several parties seeking a firm government timetable on a US withdrawal, since the Abdel Mahdi government has been clear on the war against ISIL being over.

While the world has clearly vastly changed since the 19th century, the statesmen of 19th-century Europe would have recognized the political workings of the world in the 21st. Some 200 years on, there is still almost no country that would not want to expand its influence — if no more its territory — abroad, at least in its immediate neighborhood.

On Monday, January 21, Syria’s air defenses shot down more than 30 cruise missiles and guided bombs during Israel's night attack.

It’s a huge mistake to assume that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will ever fund all its projects in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip as it doesn't want to help exercise of Palestinian self-determination and sovereignty.

There is a reason why the Trump administration continues to separate migrant children from their parents and deny them the full protections generally awarded to unaccompanied children. It’s deliberate, systematic, and widespread.

In December, the Senate successfully passed a War Powers Act resolution calling for the end to US support for the Saudi War on Yemen. The House leadership at the time refused to allow a vote, but with the Democrats now the leadership, such a resolution is expected to be voted on in the next six weeks.

Freedom of the press in the United States is legally protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. This amendment is generally understood to prevent the government from interfering with the distribution of information and opinions.

Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, underlined that Washington's hostile stance towards Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi Popular Forces) and its quest for dismantling popular groups in the Arab state derives from their opposition to the US forces' occupation of Iraq.

The future of bilateral nuclear deals between the US and Russia is in jeopardy, as both nations once again trade accusations that the other has violated existing deals, following a meeting in Geneva on the matter.

The whole world is in the know how that the Israeli army has been, from day one, and still is providing large amounts of cash, weapons and ammunition to foreign-sponsored Salafi-Takfiri terrorists operating in Syria.

A new draft resolution making its way to the UN Security Council can and should establish a long-term Yemen ceasefire monitoring mission.

Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Ray al-Youm newspaper, underlined that the US-sponsored anti-Iran conference in Warsaw next month will have the same fate as the meetings held by the so-called 'Friends of Syria' to weaken and overthrow Bashar al-Assad's government.

The United States, which claims to be a flag-holder of democracy in the world, is a nation classified "flawed democracy" in a new democracy index.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has done the right thing asking the Security Council to approve the deployment of up to 75 observers to Yemen’s port city of Hodeida for six months to monitor a ceasefire and redeployment of Saudi-backed warring parties.

Several members of the US House of Representatives want to impeach President Donald Trump over his decision to shut down the federal government in order to promote his border-wall fantasy.

There is an explanation as to why the United States continues to support Saudi Arabia’s war and says the Saudis and their coalition partners don’t have to answer to the suffering they inflict on the besieged people of Yemen.

President Donald Trump couldn’t be more accurate when he said on Wednesday, January 2, that Syria was lost a long time ago, and the US is getting out. He also said Syria doesn’t have “vast wealth,” only “sand and death”.