By Bret StephensRosemary Kelanic and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger On this episode of “The Opinions,” the ...

Iran’s nuclear program wasn’t as damaged by U.S. airstrikes early Sunday as President Donald Trump had claimed, according to ...

Behind Trump's willingness to risk war in the Middle East lies the fact that the United States has freed itself from energy ...

This week's whipsaw chain of events involving Iran, Israel and the United States that culminated in a surprise ceasefire has ...

Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff discusses the effectiveness of U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities after a ...

The countries have long worried about being sucked into regional war as they juggle relations with Washington, their security ...

ON OCT 6, 2023, it seemed as though the United States and its allies were about to win the day in the Middle East and that ...

Second, the US strikes reaffirmed that the country operates under a war-first mindset, which also means Washington has ...

President Jimmy Carter authorized Operation Eagle Claw, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the American hostages held at the US embassy in Iran. Since then, every US president has ordered at ...

As Ray Takeyh, a leading scholar of Iran and a former senior adviser in the Obama State Department, wrote in Foreign Affairs, ...

The people arrested included a former Iranian army sniper and man sentenced to 10 years in prison for a drug conviction.

The second, more fundamental reason, to doubt Trump’s prospects for success in the Middle East is his growing inability to ...