Reversing militarism in the Middle East will be difficult as Americans arms have been flowing into the region for decades.

For the European Union to side now with Trump would mean to effectively ‘lose’ Iran for generations to come.

Now that hardliners have swept Iran’s low-turnout parliamentary election, the regime must contend with a widening gap between it and society.

There is a growing number of nationalist, anti-government independents in Iran who refuse to affiliate with either reformists or hardliners and the U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ campaign isn’t helping them.

Hardliners will now have to share responsibility for Iran’s problems.

The bromance between Donald Trump and his “favorite dictator,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has roots in Hosni Mubarak’s legacy.

U.S. and international sanctions have crushed North Korea’s health care system, making it harder to deal with the coronavirus.

Despite pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration is now claiming the U.S. is an active “participant” to trigger mechanisms that will kill it for good.

The word “historic” gets tossed around to describe carefully scripted performances, “pseudo-events,” that we choose to treat as the stuff of history.

With Trump’s re-election uncertain, the pro-Iran war/regime change crowd may be running out of time to put the JCPOA away for good.

If there’s one thing that unites conservatives and progressives in South Korea’s polarized political climate, it’s opposition to the U.S. ambassador.

Conservatives won big in Iran’s parliamentary elections last week. The European Union needs to engage with it.

The U.S. would have been better off defining victory by adapting to local ways of war and peace.

U.S. imperialism in the early twentieth century produced Smedley Butler, but the interventionism of this century hasn’t produced a single comparable figure.

Since the Qassem Soleimani assassination, Washington and Tehran have intensified their efforts to try to outmaneuver each other for influence in Iraq.

Before the strengthening of trade links with India, Saudi Arabia usually supported Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir. Now their interests seem to have diverged.

Donald Trump’s feelings of invulnerability are partly rooted in America’s failure to hold anyone responsible for crimes committed in the “war on terror.”

The designation gives the Trump administration another justification for its “maximum pressure” campaign.

The Senate has given Trump a green-light to do pretty much whatever he wants. He’s now taking aim at the intel community.

With Israel’s third election in less than a year upcoming, Benjamin Netanyahu is turning to desperate measures to avoid going to jail.

What does anthropology and psychology have to say about our seemingly permanent state of war with Iran?

Given this administration’s track record, perhaps making it more difficult to send humanitarian goods into Iran was the point.

Trump’s plan for Middle East peace isn’t just a giveaway to the Israeli right-wing. It will also have negative impacts on U.S. regional partners.

Battlefield supremacy is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

A new survey finds that those Americans who have lived most of their lives with the U.S. at war are looking for something new.

After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Who’s been fired for them? Who’s been impeached? Who’s even paying attention?

The disinformation campaign against a new United Nations database aims to legitimize the Israeli settler movement and those who illegally profit from it.

Putin and Erdogan have weathered some storms together. Might they finally reach their breaking point?

The time may have finally arrived for the Palestinians to disabuse themselves of the hope that the status quo Arab political order could help them.

Donald Trump’s use of Pentagon spending and military assistance for political gain has been hiding in plain sight since he entered the Oval Office.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is testing the assumption that neither Russia nor the United States can afford to lose Turkey.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s new foreign policy initiative includes a measure to rein in the executive branch’s misuse of economic sanctions.

It’s entirely possible that the intelligence community felt pressure from Team Trump to blame Iran, without sufficient evidence, for a recent attack on a military base in Iraq.

Support for international organizations and multilateralism remains high despite Donald Trump’s rhetoric.

There was big news out of the Philippines this week that in normal times would have sparked loud complaints from the DC foreign policy establishment.

Donald Trump never campaigned on cutting Medicare and Social Security and give the savings to the Pentagon. But that’s exactly what he has proposed to do.

Erik Prince is America’s poster child for our current stereotype of a war profiteer, wannabe mercenary, and perhaps the E.F. Hutton of all warmongers.

It’s probably a long shot but the U.N. General Assembly could invoke what’s called the “Uniting for peace” resolution to de-escalate tensions.

The past months have seen an unprecedented level of diplomatic engagement on the part of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to go to jail so he’s doing anything and everything he can to hold onto power.

The state organizes the schedule of commemoration, but it cannot control the meaning that its people attach to the days.

It’s difficult to grapple with the fact that the very same people who claim to fight for democracy and freedom in Iran, are at the same time eroding the foundations of democracy in the United States.

The future of U.S. policy toward China is up for debate with many in Washington leaning toward confrontation. A new think tank report is no exception.

The Shiite-Sunni divide isn’t the USA vs. the USSR, and Iran is no Soviet Union.

Seeking stability in the Middle East must start with putting the security and needs of people across the region first.

The lure of access to Iranian ports is pushing Central Asian nations like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to improve relations with Tehran, against Saudi wishes.

The Syrian regime’s campaign to retake Idlib has picked up in intensity, threatening death and displacement at levels unseen in Syria’s conflict so far.

A New York Times report raises serious questions about the official U.S. account of the attack on the K-1 base in eastern Iraq on December 27.

After a series of rows, and with more coming, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council should convene a summit to contain their differences.

To create peace and stability in other nations, we must elevate their people to prosperity, instead of crushing them.

A visit to Central Asia by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored how Washington sees the region defined by its own rivals.

The rhetorical power of using ‘defeat’ as a shorthand comes with dangers that are likely best avoided by adopting the clarity of simply stating the desired objective.

Arab and Palestinian leaders should stop the two-state charade and move toward a new paradigm of dignity and basic freedoms for the Palestinian people as human beings. 

Israel is increasingly seen as a valuable partner in countering Iranian influence while pushing back against Turkey’s alleged ‘neo-Ottoman’ agenda in the Arab world.

Extending New START seems like an easy win for Trump. Why hasn’t he jumped on the opportunity?

This year, three foreign policy issues tightly linked to U.S. domestic politics stand out.

Russian private security firm Wagner has a significant presence in Libya and Vladimir Putin can keep his hands clean.

The gobs of money we throw at the Pentagon isn’t to meant to protect us; it’s meant to protect the Pentagon.

Is Russia enticing China to purchase its gas by employing a ‘loss leader strategy’?

The escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions has implications for Iran’s eastern neighbors, who want to prevent a major new conflict on their borders.

Curtailing U.S. militarism is popular. Maybe it’s time to tackle the Pentagon’s budget too.

The UAE joined the Arab League statement rejecting the proposal, yet UAE officials in DC applauded it and attended the launch event at the White House.

The Trump administration’s new Israel-Palestine plan, which endorses nearly everything Israel wants, is not a peace plan at all.

The new Lebanese government represents a continuity of the status quo with the ruling oligarchy running the show behind the scenes.

Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ speech condemned Palestinians for terrorism and praised Israel for peace — all while ignoring Israel’s own violent history.

Time and again, the Trump administration has taken decisions and adopted policies that affect Europe without taking into account its views.

Beyond Iran and Saudi Arabia’s overall human rights abuses, recent reports highlight their failure to ensure the safety and rights of persecuted minorities.

A new collection of journal articles opens a window on debates within Russia and illuminates the thinking behind its Middle East policies.

Champions of environmental and human justice must recognize the climate crisis and militarism as partners, rather than isolated evils.

Tensions in the Persian Gulf have caused longstanding U.S. partners in the region to reassess the pillars of their defense and security relationships.

Instead of declaring victory and pulling out, the Very Serious People in Washington want the U.S. declare a stalemate and stay in.

With reformers unpopular, low voter turn out in next month’s parliamentary elections could mean a big win for conservatives.

If New START expires next year, there will be no legally binding, verifiable caps on U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals for the first time since 1972

There’s nothing in this ‘plan’ that the Palestinians will accept.

The U.S. may have exacerbated the power imbalance further in Israel’s favor but it will not have compelled Palestinians to abandon their own rights and freedoms.

The benefits of diplomacy are greater and longer-lasting, but not as tangible.

There are real issues with military readiness but throwing more money at weapons systems isn’t part of the solution.

Foreign influence in American democracy has been around a lot longer than Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

In the current political reality, Israeli annexation of the West Bank is the best gift opponents of the occupation can hope for.

A window of opportunity to end the Yemen war may be closing. There is a chance to break the cycle but it will require regional and international effort.

To ease the anxieties in the Gulf Arab states, U.S.-Iran rhetoric needs to scale down. Gulf Arab officials should continue to urge restraint on both sides.

It is possible that de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran might be achieved through international diplomacy. The alternative is a regional or global war.

If George W. Bush and Barack Obama sowed the seeds of the American chaos machine, Donald Trump represents the first true madman at the wheel of state, thanks to his volatile temperament, profound ignorance, and crippling insecurity.

While the U.S. muddles along in the Middle East, Russia and the UAE are building a stronger bond.

A diplomatic path is still open for Iran and the U.S. to resolve tensions and come to agreement.

The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.

Lebanon is in serious finanical trouble and it doesn’t appear that anyone has a viable plan for a way out.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister went to Brussels this week and reverted back to the kingdom’s hawkish anti-Iran talking points.

Why does the Trump administration keeping giving Mohammed bin Salman a free pass?

If local and foreign actors fail to follow through on promises made at the Berlin Libya conference, Libyans will pay the price.

It looks like the Blob is starting to come around to the idea that maybe the U.S. approach to the Middle East for the last 20 years or so hasn’t been all that great.

Israel must address the question of whether the original idea of the Zionist movement of a state that is both Jewish and democratic is not deeply oxymoronic.

The E3’s decision to trigger the Dispute Resolution Mechanism of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could spell the end of that agreement.

Last month’s Islamic summit in Malaysia highlighted the risks and fragility of acquiescence to the repression of Muslims in China and India.

President Trump is continuing to paint himself into a corner where war with Iran is the only way out.

Cotton’s slur against NIAC has nothing to do with curbing foreign influence and everything to do with trying to discredit a voice that has pointed out the futility of Cotton’s preferred policy on Iran of nothing but punishment, isolation, and the threat of war.

This is classic McCarthyism: alleging or insinuating, on the basis of no good evidence, that Americans whose political views you dislike are acting in the service of a foreign power.

Resistance to Donald Trump must extend to a U.S. military machine that’s moving like a runaway train, undeterred by the human costs of its destruction.

The proxy war in Libya is increasingly colored by Emirati and Egyptian opposition to efforts to resolve divisions among the Gulf states.

Israel played no public role in Qassem Soleimani’s death but it sees an opportunity.

The post-Soleimani Middle East offers challenges and opportunities, but the U.S. does not seem to have a strategy to either mitigate or exploit them.

The E3 decision to trigger the Dispute Resolution Mechanism looks more like an attempt to shift the blame for its own impotence onto Iran rather than a necessary act of last resort to save the JCPOA.

Donald Trump’s drone war should remind us how dangerous it is when a president claims the legal authority to kill in secret and no one can stop him.

Despite bluster from the prime minister, Israeli military intelligence doesn’t believe Iran is the greatest threat to the country and it has assessed that Iran is not interested in a “quick breakthrough” to obtain nuclear weapons.

Tamim bin Hamad Al Than was the first head of state to visit Iran since the Soleimani assassination. It was his first trip to Tehran as Emir of Qatar.

The cycle of elections after the 2009 Green Movement is already being replaced from below by an emerging cycle of protest and violent counter-demonstration, an accelerating path to ruin without the usual offramp of elections to restore the peace.

With parliamentary elections upcoming, most analysts in Iran believe they will favor hard-line forces associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Whether this move was self-imposed, or the result of President Trump threatening a 25 percent tariff on European cars, what do the U.K., France, and Germany hope to achieve?

There’s a reason why President Ford ended American-sponsored assassination as act of U.S. policy.

And as long as U.S. forces stay in Iraq, Baghdad and Tehran have a reason to stay close.

Triggering the Iran nuclear deal’s dispute mechanism is an assertive move by the E3, but it is also a gamble that could save or sink the agreement.

Leaving militarily does not mean leaving all together. The United States should continue to pursue its Middle East interests diplomatically and economically.

The fallout from Trump escalating tensions with Iran isn’t just felt in the Middle East.

The memory of the 1979 hostage crisis, and the visceral feeling of humiliation and rage it inspired, plainly colors Trump’s views on Iran today.

The biggest impediment to any resurgence of ISIS in Iraq would be good governance and stability in Iraqi politics. U.S. troops are not contributing to those goals.

If Iranian military and political leaders learn the right lessons from this incident, they will implement the long overdue reform of Iran’s political, economic, and administrative structures.

It is in the interest of the region, Europe, and the world to help Iran succeed in managing the economic fallout from Trump’s sanctions.

Can we breathe easy or have we merely paused to catch our collective breath before resuming the climb up the escalation ladder?

If there is a silver lining, it is that Washington and Teheran have moved away from the brink of war and have opted to take the de-escalation off-ramps they offered each other since Soleimani’s killing.

Individuals outside Iran who are advocating for an aggressive intervention or a war against Iran are primarily driven by their own ideological convictions, rather than by genuine care for the wellbeing of the people of Iran.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have breathed a collective sigh of relief following signs of de-escalation between Tehran and Washington.

Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990.

There are plenty of intermediaries working to cool U.S.-Iran tensions. The European Union should be putting its recourses toward saving the JCPOA.

One well-established principle of sanctions policy is that the country or group imposing the sanctions must be prepared to take yes for an answer.

Few noticed Trump’s recent offer to work with Iran to combat ISIS and on other “shared priorities.”

The assassination of Qassem Soleimani emphasizes America’s confounding inability to think through the role of military force as an instrument of strategy.

It would be smart for Oman’s two closest Western allies, the United States and Great Britain, to reach out to work with the new leader as soon as possible.

Pompeo’s directive appears to put an end to the Trump administration’s hinting that it supports efforts to destabilize the Iranian government if not topple it.

Ultimately, negotiations, dialogue, and engagement remain the real pathway out of the decades-long conflict between the United States and Iran.

War profiteering is one thing. Funding the enemy who kills your own troops is quite another. Such a concept is inherently a Catch 22.

The Trump administration has no intention of respecting the wishes of the Iraqi government.

Is Donald Trump beginning to learn some of the lessons that can enable him finally to start growing up in the presidency?

If we, the people of the U.S. and Iran realize that we have much more in common with each other than we do with our respective national governments, then we can come together and promote global engagement, people-to-people exchanges and diplomacy.

The past almost 20 years provide good evidence that our bomb-first-ask-hard-questions-never approach to violence and security challenges has not made us or the world safer.

Like people of color and those of different religions or genders, women experience different challenges and can face greater obstacles to progress — particularly in security-focused careers and institutions that are male-dominated.

Power dynamics in the Muslim world are shifting and splintering, with Saudi Arabia on the outside looking in.

Putin’s investment doesn’t appear to be working out as he may have hoped.

In the end, Trumo’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani is a futile act, a confession of a bankrupt non-strategy.

We’ve avoided war for now. But the regime-change crowd in Washington won’t stop trying.

Trump doesn’t seem to realize that he himself built the escalation ladder by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.

To the sure delight of the hardliners inside and outside the U.S. administration who have always favored regime change, Trump has no plan B that can create a credible path back to diplomacy and negotiations.

President Kennedy once said that, “Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.”

Hawks hated the Iran nuclear deal because they feared not that it would fail to prevent Iran from getting the bomb, but that it would succeed — and thereby deprive the United States of a rationale to dominate the region and discipline its foe.

Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah recently warned that retaliation for the Soleimani assassination would be aimed at U.S. military assets, suggesting that suicide bombers will be deployed.

If U.S. troops in Iraq are attacked by Iran, the Trump administration will feel compelled to respond, and the U.S. will soon be fighting yet another war in the Middle East.

Regime change is now in its coffin and the assassination of Soleimani is the last nail hammered in.

The attempt to create discord within Iran over the killing of Soleimani, who was widely respected by Iranians of many different walks of life as the protector of Iranian national security, is doomed to fail.

The political fallout from Trump’s kill order will extend far wider than Iraq.

If Trump and Pompeo really want to de-escalate, that means not only backing off from more provocative and deadly kinetic acts; it also means backing off from the economic warfare that started the destructive cycle.

Would Trump ever assassinate a Chinese military leader?

Congress had the chance to repeal the law authorizing the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Team Trump is now using it as legal justification for killing Soleimani.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed President Obama for starting a war with Iran.

This latest act of “foreign policy by assassination” will be largely rejected by most in the world. Only a few craven Gulf kings and princes—and Israel—will applaud it.

The outlines of the blowback are already taking shape as the Iraqi government, even some neutral and anti-Iran factions, have condemned the attack as, at the very least, an insult to the sovereignty of their country.

U.S. officials privy to the intelligence Trump used to determine a purported “imminent” threat from Iran say the evidence was “razor thin.”

The latest developments in Iraq and the greater Middle East illustrate the flaws in a piecemeal, unrealistic, and excessively military-reliant U.S. strategy.

Iran actively maintains a network of thousands of militants in the region, with organizations like Hezbollah, Hamas and the Popular Mobilization Forces ready to provide fighters.

One month ago ago, Democratic leaders in Congress folded on an important military policy proposal that could have blocked a Trump war with Iran.

Soleimani’s death will not end the opposition. Instead, it is an invitation to ignore the existing rules of the game. Americans in the Middle East, whatever their profession, are now targets.

this year U.S. domestic politics will have a greater impact than usual on the way that U.S. foreign policy is conducted.

The Turkish troop deployment to Libya is set to significantly escalate Ankara’s tensions with Cairo, Abu Dhabi, and other regional capitals along with Moscow.

This weekend’s US military strikes against Iraqi militias associated with Iran suggest that world leaders ignore the protests at their peril.

Washington’s decision on December 29 to bomb the Iraqi militia sites along the Iraqi-Syrian border threw a hand-grenade into that chaotic, but strongly anti-Iranian, political maelstrom.

The DC foreign policy elite moved quickly to try to downplay the Afghanistan papers to keep the U.S. military there indefinitely.

A diverse group of young policy professionals has joined forces to start a new organization that will develop a foreign policy platform for the next generation.

This week’s U.S. airstrikes in Iraq have converted what had been a story of popular protests with an anti-Iran tinge into a story of strongly anti-U.S. protests.

The consequences of the U.S. attack on Iraqi Shiite militia group Kataib Hezbollah far outweigh whatever short sighted benefits the Trump administration is claiming.

Someone will pay: the question is who, and whether any government can produce a program perceived as vaguely equitable by most Lebanese

In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Duyeon Kim explains what could be motivating Pyongyang’s escalation and what to expect in 2020.

Beware of “isolationism” charges and the quest for more sanctions.


When looking at what UAE interests have driven Abu Dhabi to re-embrace Bashar al-Assad’s government so openly, there are numerous factors in play.

Trump administration claims of support for the Iranian people are disingenuous and do not mitigate the effects of their “maximum pressure” campaign.

As Lebanon teeters on default, new PM Hassan Diab’s ability to cobble together a functioning government depends principally on his courage and vision.

Many in the international community at large will refuse to accept Saudi Arabia’s secretive court proceedings around the Khashoggi murder as credible.

The Court could also issue a formal ruling on whether it has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes in the Occupied Territories, thereby removing ambiguity regarding a key Israeli government argument against it.

As the first U.S. president with no prior public service experience and one who doesn’t read books or most anything else, Trump probably has the shallowest understanding of world affairs of any president in U.S. history.

The struggle against corruption in the Arab world faces hurdles that may prevent today’s demonstrators from realizing the unformed and unrealized dreams of comprehensive political change.

It’s difficult to quantify the indirect human costs of war: mental illness or chronic injuries in people eternally grieving or struggling to adjust to worlds that have often been turned upside down.

The Washington Post’s publication of the “Afghanistan Papers” unveiled over 2,000 pages of unpublished notes of interviews with U.S. officials involved […]

Increasing inaction at the national level means that cities are playing larger role in internatioanal affairs than ever before.

China’s belief that economics rather than geopolitics is the key to solving disputes has so far allowed it to remain above the breach but has yet to prove its sustainability.

Congress has made clear it isn’t moved by recent revelations of dishonesty and waste in our war-making.

Rouhani following through on the Japan trip now may indicate that he has the authority from Khamenei to explore avenues for renewed U.S.-Iran diplomacy.

Maybe reducing the U.S. commitment in the Middle East isn’t such a bad idea.

What does Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have in common with the Rolling Stones?

Everything that the officials said privately, and quoted by the Washington Post, has been documented for years in the numerous reports released by SIGAR.

Soon after 9/11, a group of former Soviet military brass warned us about what has been documented in the Afghanistan Papers.

Research has proven that there are no military solutions in the fight against terrorism.

Foreign policy has been largely absent in the Democratic presidential debates . That has to change.

Conflicts in Libya, Yemen, and Syria appear to be winding down. It’s time for the United States to take a different approach.

We are at this point primarily because the Trump administration refused to be specific about what it was willing to offer Kim.

To get Russia policy right, the Democratic candidates need first to stop ignoring the underlying condition for Russia’s unjustified election meddling in 2016.

For supporters of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, the best outcome from that debate is one that maintains the status quo, the same outcome if the debate never takes shape.

The attributing of bad wars to a lack of government transparency is a shirking of responsibility.

Hopeful talk of a thaw in the Arabian Gulf crisis, which began in June 2017, has emerged following a series […]

A succession of social upheavals over the last decade has radically realigned political power throughout the world. As a result […]

On the House floor this week, Democratic House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith called the final fiscal year 2020 National […]

What does an antisemitism spewing, Nazi dog-whistling President give his favorite Jewish and Christian zealots for the holidays, after already […]

Following years of failed strategies in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is attempting to gradually wind down its operations in the country […]

As the Middle East bids farewell to 2019 and welcomes the new year, the peoples of the region have precious […]

Something those of us who had already seen the U.S./coalition/NATO campaign in Afghanistan up close already knew has now been […]

The Middle East is facing a wave of protests – with the latest unrest in Iran sweeping the country in […]

On December 9, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel presided over a meeting in Paris between Ukraine’s […]

The architects of the Trump administration’s Iran policy expect that the “maximum pressure” strategy would force Iran to renegotiate the […]

On the 66th anniversary of what is known as the “Student Day” in Iran, university students in Tehran and some […]

President Trump and his “bull in a China shop” approach took center stage at a NATO leaders’ conference last week, […]

After months of confrontation, U.S.-Iran relations finally produced something positive, as both sides agreed to a swap of prisoners. Iran […]

The Washington Post released documents Monday detailing the extent to which the public was “deliberately” misled about the failure to […]

There is a laundry list of reasons for why the U.S. foreign policy establishment comes up short on so many […]

The shooting at the Pensacola naval air station, and the Trump administration’s reaction to it, illustrate much of what is […]

Many argue that Iran’s ballistic missile program should be a major focal point for U.S. policy. In this view, the […]

President Donald Trump often gets credit for unwittingly pushing the Europeans to re-think their security and place in the world. […]

In the spring of 2014, we realized we at Win Without War had a problem. On one hand, we knew […]

Sweden’s detention of an Iranian allegedly involved in the 1988 prison massacres is both the latest attempt at universal jurisdiction […]

Nearly two decades after al-Qaida attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, the national security establishment is ready to […]

In the past half century during which I have reported on Middle Eastern politics, society, and development — now de-development […]

American diplomacy currently finds itself in a precarious position. It has had difficult moments throughout history, but diplomats’ congressional testimonies […]

Recently, the Internet was set aflame over “OK boomer,” a two-word retort Millennials and Generation Z are using to encapsulate […]

The dramatic changes in the international system over the past two decades—a major rebalancing of world power and increasingly pressing […]

Suddenly, in recent weeks, the Islamic regime in Iran has woken up in a new and uncertain environment. Long gone […]

It’s a headline that should, by all appearances, be considered “good news.” But somehow the November 18 declaration, “VA announces […]

Remember the Patriot Act? It still exists, and law enforcement is still widely abusing it. A key part of this […]

After 25 years of repeated failures, Americans want a foreign policy that preserves the security of the United States, enhances […]

French President Emanuel Macron has said, “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO.” He attributes much […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under indictment for corruption, has been launching vociferous counterattacks that sound quite familiar to anyone […]

Popular protests in Iran came at a particularly delicate time for the nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers, […]

With protests flaring up around the country over a hike in fuel prices, the atmosphere in Iran is febrile. At […]

In recent years there has been remarkable upheaval between Persian Gulf countries. Iran and Qatar have been on mostly extremely […]

In the latest reversal of long-standing United States policy in the Middle East, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared this […]

More than a month after protestors first took to the streets across Iraq, Adil Abdul Mahdi surprisingly remains the country’s […]

The unrivaled and unchallenged exertion of American military power around the world, or what’s known as “primacy,” has been the […]

Ahmadinejad’s aggressive foreign policy and divisive rhetoric fueled Iran’s international pariah status.

Lebanon’s largely peaceful “Arab Spring” is a model in civic activism for the greater Middle East. Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s […]