Trump and Moon must unite to send a tough message to North Korea
Co-written by Joshua Stanton. South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae In, ...
Anti-Americanism
Trump, Germany’s Merkel clash over trade, NATO and ‘Western values’
Germany and the U.S. emerged from Memorial Day weekend in a war of words, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners attacked America’s reliability as a world power and Presiden...
Op-eds
Unfinished Business
Donald Trump is fond of claiming that his predecessor mismanaged America's role in the world. "And I have to just say that the world is a mess. I inherited a mess," the president noted durin...
Op-eds
Qatar Needs to Do Its Part
An important goal of President Donald Trump’s meetings with Arab and Islamic leaders this past weekend was to encourage them to shoulder more of the burden in defending our common interests...
Op-eds
Analysis: German FM Fishes for Antisemitic Vote in Row with Israel
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s ongoing assaults on the legitimacy of the Israeli government may actually be about winning the federal election in September. In the latest...
Op-eds
Germany’s roguish stand against US, Israel must be stopped
Co-written by Anne Bayefsky Israel and the Trump administration have a German problem, ironically manifesting itself on Israel’s 69th birthday. Just as President Trump’...
Op-eds
The Real War in ‘Syria’ and the Strategy for Long-Term Victory
Of course I loathe Assad. And of course I despise the Obamans for that phony red line and the subsequent retreat-and-bogus-Russian-deal. But just carrying out vengeance against Assad isn’t...
Op-eds
U.S. Arrests Senior Turkish Banker for Sanctions-Busting
U.S. authorities arrested Mehmet Hakan Atilla, the...
Policy Briefs
In Venezuela’s Toxic Brew, Failed Narco-State Meets Iran-Backed Terrorism
As if the political and economic chaos wracking Venezuela wasn’t worrying enough, a couple of recent stories underscore the potential national security threat brewi...
Op-eds
Ecuador, Iran, and Latin America’s Pink Tide
Ecuador will elect a new leader on April 2 to replace its left-wing, populist president Rafael Correa. Washington should pay close attention. Correa’s vice-president Lenin Moreno is a close...
Policy Briefs
Texas, Spanish Banks Slammed Over Israel-Boycott Accounts
Two giant financial institutions – Dallas-based Comerica and Spain’s La Caixa – are caught in the crossfire of criticism from politicians and human rights organizations over a f...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Protecting Palestine
Not long ago, I was talking to a Fatah official about Palestinian aspirations, especially his party’s sharp emotions about Hamas, the Palestinian fundamentalist movement that rules Gaza and...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Dubious Case against a U.S. Pastor
Turkish courts last week charged U.S. pastor Andr...
Policy Briefs
Will Trump Stay or Go in Iraq?
Though the battle for Mosul has slowed to a crawl, the collapse of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate — at least in its Iraqi incarnation — remai...
Op-eds
Muslims in America
One of the most striking features of the British cemetery at Gallipoli is the attention given to honoring the diversity of the dead. Final farewells from loved ones carved upon stone plaques line...
Op-eds
Unhappy Anniversary
Ayatollah Khamenei, the "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution," commemorated the end of Ramadan with a lengthy anti-American, antisemitic screed. Khamenei has repeatedly accused the W...
Op-eds
The Al Qaeda Threat Grows
Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, the al Qaeda threat is growing. Al Qaeda has the capacity to attempt a mass casualty attack inside the U.S. and Europe today. Many...
Op-eds
Russia’s Middle East Offensive
Even before Russian bombers launched strikes into Syria from an Iranian air base last month, it was clear that one of President Barack Obama’s more dubious foreign policy legacies would be...
Op-eds
Expert: Zarif Leveraging Latin America Trip to Boost Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program
The Iranian foreign minister’s visit to Latin America last week signaled the Islamic Republic’s intent to rebuild its missile program in the Western Hemisphere, Emanuele Ottol...