Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and historian, debunks the latest anti-Iran talking points about the nuclear agreement.

Mitchell Prothero, a McClatchy special correspondent, discusses the Iraqi-led coalition's early efforts to take back Anbar province from the Islamic State.

Murtaza Hussain, a journalist and political commentator on human rights, foreign policy, and cultural affairs, discusses his article "ISIS Recruitment Thrives in Brutal Prisons Run By U.S.-Backed Egypt."

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses his article on the real reasons Turkey shot down a Russian jet near the Syrian border.

Megan O'Toole, a journalist with Al Jazeera, discusses her article on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where the US-Saudi war and blockade threaten millions with starvation.

Alex Nowrasteh, the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, discusses the statistics that prove Syrian refugees from 2001 onward haven't posed a serious security threat to the United States.

Trevor Timm, co-founder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses how the US government is using the Paris terrorist attack to justify banning Syrians and encryption - even though the attackers weren't Syrian and didn't use encryption.

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses Donald Trump's controversial and unsupported claim that Arabs were celebrating on New Jersey rooftops immediately after the 9/11 attacks; and why nobody in the MSM can remember the well-documented reporting on the "dancing Israelis" from Urban Moving Systems who really were celebrating.