By Tim Arango, New York Times: “Across the country, Iranian-sponsored militias are hard at work establishing a corridor to move men and guns to proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon. And in the halls of power in Baghdad, even the most senior Iraqi cabinet officials have been blessed, or bounced out, by Iran’s leadership.”
By Blake Baiers, RealClearDefense: “Followings its decades long economic offensive on the African continent, China has deployed the first troops to its first ever permanent overseas base, located in Djibouti. Mere miles from Camp Lemonnier, the U.S. base in Djibouti, this deployment marks a new era in Chinese foreign policy ... "