The White House announced Thursday that President Donald Trump would make his decision to join Israel’s campaign to destroy ...

Dick Cheney is to George W. Bush as Netanyahu could soon be to Trump: The “America First” president is being led on a string ...

Iran was caught off-guard. But Iran recovered more quickly from its Pearl Harbor moment than Israel expected. In less than 18 ...

The Libyan disaster shows what the West gets out of regime change: more migrants flooding into our countries. It’s a factor no one beating the war drum considers. It’s assumed that the new Iranian ...

As the largest consumer of Iranian crude, China might intervene to restore the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf. Houthi ...

Trump has a choice: He can cede a maximalist position in the service of peace, or he can stick to it and again find himself at the precipice of war in two weeks.

It would be easy for America to do this; our diplomatic influence in southeastern Europe is strong. The question is not whether the U.S. could do it, but why it would bother to flex its muscle, ...

The next round of bilateral talks between the U.S. and Russia have been cancelled, and the bilateral talks between Russia and Ukraine are stuck. Pushed out of the news, but not out of Ukraine, Russian ...

There has been some controversy about whether the Trump administration ought to join Israel’s bombing campaign to finish off Iran’s nuclear sites—controversy and even hysteria, as the neoconservatives ...

To secure a non-nuclear Iran, Trump should guarantee regime security in Tehran.

I have been fascinated with the conduct of empires in their late stages because they are so multicausal and historically rich ...

Few on either side of the 2013 Syria debate found those assurances believable. There was limited appetite at the time for ...