“We don’t want new roundabouts or malls. We just want to live.” That was the message from one protester in Aleppo as demonstrations over soaring fuel prices spread across Syria on September...
The U.S. is rightly pushing the UN Security Council to expand the Sudan arms embargo before it expires this Saturday. Outlined by Ambassador Mike Waltz and Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, the proposal...
Friday, a quarter-century since the 9/11 attacks, marks an important milestone in our nation’s history. It’s a fitting moment to take stock of the Global War on Terrorism, launched by President...
REVIEW: ‘All The Presidents' Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror’ by Peter Bergen
Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The United States is on track to be the next target this November. A troveof...
The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on September 9 issued what appears to be its first official, public accounting of weapons and munitions confiscated during operations in Zawtar al Gharbiyeh, Froun,...
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it is important to reflect on the historic significance of that atrocity and on the lessons we have drawn and should draw from it. The 20 years that followed...
One year ago today, Hamas officials in Qatar narrowly escaped death. On September 9, 2025, Israel launched an airstrike on a Hamas meeting in Doha. The strike failed to wipe out Hamas’s upper ranks....
A quarter century on, we need to understand what happened and what is still happening
Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The U.S. is on track to be the next target this November. A trove of Russian documents leaked in...
*This article was originally published in French In Europe, and especially in France, the verdict seems to be in. The United States, we are told, has pursued a strategy toward Iran that is as brutal...
Turkey invokes a Syrian sovereignty it spent a decade dismantling. Washington should not buy it.
Taiwan is doubling down on a double-digit increase in baseline defense spending. On August 20, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te proposed an 18 percent increase in baseline defense spending for the coming...
It is unlikely that Russia or China would be willing to support a Saudi nuclear program if the United States refuses to do so.
There was widespread condemnation on August 17 and 18 of an Iranian drone attack on the office of Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. Early on August 17, two drones...
A Media rights organization has quietly removed at least eight individuals from its roster of media workers killed while doing journalistic work. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it...
An arresting image from the last century should haunt us in this one. In November 1940, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to deepen Moscow’s pact with Nazi Germany, supposedly...
America’s leaders refuse to do their homework
In fits and starts, President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is progressing. After months of inertia over Hamas’s refusal to disarm, the White House announced a breakthrough on July...
Syria’s current leaders and Russia once stood on opposite sides of the battlefield. Yet since the overthrow of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s longtime ally during the Syrian civil...