This time the decisive question is supposed to be whether Iran was building a nuclear weapon and reaching some ill-defined point of no return. If you answer yes, you therefore favor U.S. strikes on ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Ryan Costello has been a policy fellow at the National Iranian-American Council since 2013 and currently serves as policy director.

Trump has expressed his admiration of the Israeli operation, noting that the strikes were “excellent” and “very successful,” but has also called for a negotiated end to the conflict. “Iran must make a ...