Nobel Peace Prize

Hezbollah at War: What Comes Next for Lebanon and the Region

Double-dealing Pakistan is the danger looming over critical US-Iran talks

President Donald Trump’s two-week cease-fire with Iran is a huge gamble — and allowing Pakistan to act as the go-between only raises the stakes. Pakistan, after all, is the nation where...

A battle to make America great again

Guess who that’s making angry

US deploys carrier, issues airspace warning, seizes oil tanker in latest Caribbean escalations

Washington continued ramping up its military deployment near Venezuela under Operation Southern Spear, the anti-drug trafficking campaign announced by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on November 13. The...

Netanyahu’s gift to Trump marks a ‘historic horizon’ for Mideast peace

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited President Donald Trump at the White House Monday, he celebrated his country’s victory over the Islamic Republic of Iran — after a brief but intense...

Trump Hosts Netanyahu at White House as Momentum Builds for Gaza Ceasefire

Trump Pushing Gaza Ceasefire: For the third time since taking office, President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 7 as the...

With Qatar, the Biden Administration Left Cards on the Table. Trump Should Play Them.

No Qataris were visible in the chilling footage of the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities that President Trump saw this week for the first time. But figuratively, they were right there. Qatar is not...

Qatar Seeks Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza Mediation Despite Enabling Hamas

A Qatari diplomat recently suggested that the emir of Qatar deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Gaza that Doha effectively abetted. In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, Qatar’s...

‘Women, Life, Freedom!’ Iran Temporarily Releases Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Iran Frees Prominent Human Right Activist for 21 Days: The authorities in Tehran released prominent human rights activist Narges Mohammadi on December 4 after she underwent surgery...

The legacy of President Trump 2.0

Now is the time to think about what needs to be achieved

A ‘Shameful Phenomenon’: Iran Arrests Female Protester After She Disrobes at University

Iranian Student Protests Mandatory Dress Code: Ahoo Daryaeistripped to her underwear at Tehran’sIslamic Azad University on November 2 after members of the Basij militia, which...

Iranians Commemorate Mahsa Amini on Second Anniversary of Her Murder

The second anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was marked in Iran and around the world on September 16 amid a media blackout ordered by Iran’s rulers. The young...

Iran Executes Four Men Falsely Accused of Mossad Ties

Iran on January 29 hanged four prisoners accused of planning to sabotage a Defense Ministry factory and having links with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Iranian state media...

Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023

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Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom

Jimmy Lai and Dmitry Muratov put their lives on the line

What Erdoğan Has Wrought?

Seeking concessions to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO has done damage to Turkey’s standing in Europe and its long-term security interests.

The fall of the Golden Arch Theory

Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all

Give Osman Kavala the Nobel Peace Prize

Kavala is a philanthropist who, for decades, has stood up to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and to authoritarians of every stripe inside Turkey.

A separate peace in the Middle East

How it was achieved and what the “Palestinian cause” now requires

Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Strategic Defense of Democracy

Hong Kong police on Monday arrested Jimmy Lai, the 71-year-old pro-democracy founder of Hong Kong media company Next Digital and its newspaper, Apple Daily, on charges of violating China’s new national...