“It’s a necessity more important than bread.” That’s how Iran’s rulers regard their drive to acquire nuclear weapons, an activist hard-liner recently declared. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s...
The Iran-backed Houthis march down Yemen’s west coast looked easy, but holding the territory is proving more difficult. Yemen’s internationally recognized government began Operation “Dawn of Yemen”—...
The Pentagon is mobilizing to defend November’s elections. Yet, in some respects, the Pentagon’s hands are tied. U.S. law allows foreign governments to direct propaganda at American audiences without...
Has the United States lost the Iran war? The Iranian regime certainly thinks it has. The big Iranian funk that came after the 12-Day War in June, which climaxed the Israeli multi-front offensive...
US retrenchment from Europe, even if premised on European burden-sharing, will expose the continent to Russian aggression.
North Korea is learning modern warfare on Ukrainian ground—and Russia is paying the tuition
China is putting coercive pressure on a US treaty ally every day in the East China Sea. Washington is barely paying attention.
Tehran faced two rounds of new U.S. sanctions in as many days. On July 29 and July 30, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued back-to-back sanctions targeting the...
On July 15, Iraq’s Ministry of Finance circulated a banking directive instructing ministries, state entities, and financial institutions to implement recent US Treasury Department sanctions...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi met with US President Donald Trump on July 14 as part of his multi-day trip to Washington. It is Zaidi’s first trip to the United States after being sworn...
The consequences of the NATO summit that concluded Wednesday in Ankara will be determined primarily by two questions: Will Europeans step up to honor their defense-spending commitments and carry more of...
As NATO leaders gather in Ankara next week, there is much to celebrate. Ukraine is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield against Russia. European defense spending is way up. Many European...
In a rare visit to the Hermit Kingdom, Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping sought to bring North Korea out of the cold. Xi visited North Korea on June 8-9 for the first time in seven years, holding...
During his first term, President Donald Trump made fighting Christian persecution around the world a foreign policy priority. In his second term, it has become something more than that. The...
Nigeria’s Christians are among the most persecuted in the world. They face threats from Muslim Fulani herdsmen who have raided villages and killed hundreds of believers. They also face threats from terror...
How international institutions’ silence on Hamas hiding behind civilians incentivizes human shields use, and distorts law and accountability.
Two Kurdish Iranian opposition groups claimed they were targeted by Iranian attacks on May 5 and 6. The Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran...
That’s why they’re so difficult to deter or constrain
Some European NATO members haven’t done themselves many favors by withholding support for the US during the Iran War.
Washington and Tehran are both arguing that they were victorious after 40 days of fighting. A detailed analysis, however, suggests a more nuanced picture in which American forces degraded Iran’s core...