Can Pompeo trap a future President Biden in Trump’s self-imposed Iran crisis?
Regime change proponents are trying to use an expiring arms embargo to prevent the next president from reentering the Iran nuclear deal.
Regime change proponents are trying to use an expiring arms embargo to prevent the next president from reentering the Iran nuclear deal.
The Saudis have reason to try to distract from what’s going on inside the country.
Internet has in recent years made its way to the long list of foes Iranian hardliners wholeheartedly wish to defeat in preparation for transmuting the country into an “Islamic North Korea.”
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout may rewrite the security as well as the political and economic map of the Middle East.
A China that Russia is increasingly dependent on could serve to limit Moscow’s — indeed, Putin’s own — freedom of action internationally.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell pushed the Germans hard on officially designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.
For Americans, V-E Day marked the beginning of “our times.” The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end.
We don’t just need foreign policy experts, we need to challenge the foundation of the bipartisan consensus that has ravaged U.S. foreign policy.
Imagine an alternate history after WWII where Hawaii broke away from a decimated United States and sought security guarantees from China.
The defense industry is exploiting the pandemic to ask for bailouts and reduced government oversight. It should be paying back the American public instead.
While the U.S. fiddles with bad faith on Iran, Europe has an opportunity to lead and provide a better path forward.
The pandemic is likely to accelerate changes in the Middle Eastthat were already beginning to happen, or were inherent in existing conditions.
Gulf powers and the UN should help settle the conflict between the Yemen government and southern separatists to enable national ceasefire talks.
The pressure being exerted on the intelligence agencies about the Wuhan lab is reminiscent of pressures that earlier administrations exerted to hunt for material in support of their favored hypotheses, including hypotheses used to sell wars.
Some have argued that the US should commit to an increasing dependence on petroleum, as well as ushering in a new cycle of overseas interventions propping up an existing, overburdened, and outdated system of U.S. military hegemony.
In order to pile more sanctions on Iran, the U.S. has to be part of the Iran nuclear deal. So now the Trump administration is pretending it never left.
In some ways the COVID-19 pandemic is but a dress rehearsal for climate change, and the world has been granted a golden opportunity to change its ways before the worst is upon us.
The United Nations needs soldiers of its own — to put a stop to genocide and crimes against humanity when national governments are unwilling to dispatch their own forces to do so.
Given that Israeli annexation of most of the West Bank is now a forgone conclusion, Washington is beginning to catch up to the idea that the two-state solution is no longer viable.
A UN aid and relief agency is ready to offer its support, all it needs is the funding to administer it.
Over the next few months Oman is likely to exercise caution in addressing key issues. Its new sultan may keep continuity with his predecessor’s approach.