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;...
Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration’s foreign policy: He was defense secretary both for a hawkish President George W....
As Republicans head toward what could be a stalemated convention, they might recall how the party healed itself in 1952 in what was known as the “winter of...
So much of America’s future is at stake in the 2016 presidential election. But let’s focus for a moment on just one area – energy and the environment – where...
China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security, offers a snapshot of the political intrigue taking place within the regime of President Xi...
Economic sanctions have become the “silver bullet” of American foreign policy over the last decade, because they’re cheaper and more effective in compelling...
“We have the Europe we deserve,” admitted French Prime Minister Manuel Valls Wednesday. The question is how Europeans can build the security structures they...
The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address. Maybe this will be the case with...
Moderate Syrian opposition forces claim they are strengthening their positions against extremists in northern and southern Syria as the Russian military...
Of the many dangerous trends in the 2016 election, the revolt against free trade that has captured both parties could do the most long-term damage. That’s...