China suffered a significant setback this month in its bid for dominance in the South China Sea, and its leaders are following a familiar script after such...
After a week of relentless Republican attacks on trade deals and globalization, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is heading to a meeting in China that he hopes...
In the uproar following the attempted military coup in Turkey, relations between Washington and Ankara, already badly strained, appear to be headed for new...
The week of July 4 is a good moment to salute an unlikely champion of saving energy and switching to alternative fuels – the U.S. Navy. Once a supreme...
In the global revulsion at the past week’s terror attacks in four Muslim countries, the United States and its allies have a new opportunity to build a unified...
Imagine a young Margaret Thatcher, a politician who deeply mistrusts the political establishment and identifies on a gut level with the frustrations of the...
A year ago this month, President Barack Obama was delivering a eulogy in Charleston, South Carolina, after the mass shooting in a church there. As he neared...
With Venezuela spinning into chaos and collapse, the Obama administration has pondered how to nudge the imploding nation toward political change – without...
Even by Donald Trump’s standards, his comments about the Orlando shooting have been reckless and self-serving. They are also dangerous for the country.Trump’s...
Sometime over the next several years, the next U.S. president could confront a genuinely dangerous threat from a faraway place – a North Korean missile that...
One of the mysteries of Campaign 2016 is why the Iran nuclear deal has vanished as an issue. But a new book reveals some startling details about how the...
Hong Kong television commentator Wu Jun observed recently that despite Donald Trump’s anti-Beijing rhetoric, he “could in fact be the best president for...
One cause for Syria’s torments is that regional powers have used proxy forces to advance their position in the “great game” of influence,...
Here’s a positive move by Turkey, a country that often seems to be heading in the wrong direction: Despite Ankara’s severe misgivings, it is allowing the U.S....
A tour of the war zones in Iraq and Syria with the top American commander ends, appropriately enough, here in Turkey, the strongest power in the region and...
The raw Sunni recruits in crisp camouflage uniforms, popping off rounds at the firing range at a U.S. training camp here, illustrate the dilemma for the U.S....
On Oct. 21, 2014, Robin Raphel, a former assistant secretary of state, got an urgent call from her daughter, who said that something had triggered the burglar...
The Obama administration has another chance to enforce its botched “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria, given new reports that President...
Early in his tenure as director of national intelligence, James Clapper could sometimes be heard complaining “I’m too old for this [expletive]!” He...
By questioning the fundamentals of America’s global role, Donald Trump has given Hillary Clinton a chance to lift her game – by explaining why continued...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that formed Iraq, Syria and the other fragile nations of the modern Middle East. The past...
From a sandbagged hilltop outpost here, you can see the front line of Daesh (ISIS) in the muddy brown houses of Al-Nasr, a village on the next ridgeline,...
The military commander of this breakaway Armenian republic predicted in an interview here Monday that a fragile cease-fire could collapse within days. By that...
It has become a truism to say that the American political system is suffering from dysfunction. But weirdly, even the insurgent candidates, Donald Trump and...
As President Obama travels this week to Saudi Arabia, here’s a surprising snapshot of what young Arabs think: They’re scared about Daesh (ISIS) and terrorism;...