With Strategic Dialogue, the U.S. Can Hold Qatar Accountable on Terror Finance
Today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, along with their Qatari counterparts, will co-chair the inaugural...
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Tillerson Revises U.S. Policy on Syria
In a speech Wednesday at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson articulated the...
Policy Briefs
What Washington can do to support Iran’s protesters
Even before the widespread anticlerical protests in Iran, President Trump made clear what he thinks of the regime. In recent days, he has even gone so far as to support those Iranians protesting...
Op-eds
This Christmas, Remember Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson
Pastor Andrew Brunson will be spending his second Christmas in a Turkish jail, unfairly held by the Erdogan government on...
Policy Briefs
The Qatar Quarrel Benefits the U.S.
It is no secret that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been at odds with President Trump on a range of issues. One of them is the U.S. response to the spat that erupted in early June between Q...
Op-eds
Two Cheers for Rex
I rarely find myself thinking along similar lines as fellow Foreign Policy contributor Stephen Walt. Nevertheless, just as I was contemplating an article that would take note of a few o...
Op-eds
The US is operating three carriers in the Pacific for the first time in a decade
The Navy has three carrier strike groups currently in the Pacific where North Korea's nuclear saber rattling has the U.S. and its Asian allies keeping a close watch on the pariah state....
Op-eds
Tillerson Warns Against Doing Business With Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned global companies that they do business with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “at their own risk,” remarks that will add to investment uncertai...
Op-eds
The United States Must Prevent Disaster in Kurdistan
You have to hand it to them. U.S. officials nailed it. Prior to the Sept. 25 independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, they couldn’t have been clearer in setting out the parade of horribles that m...
Op-eds
CBS Interactive
For the first time ever, the U.S. has confirmed Washington has direct lines of communication with North Korea. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talked about contact with Pyongyang and said the U....
Op-eds
Preventing a “Fait Accompli” in Syria
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson...
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Iran Is Not in ‘Technical Compliance’ with the JCPOA
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared on Sunday that Iran is in &ld...
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Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
Afghanistan and the war against the West
The conflict in Afghanistan is often referred to as “the longest war in American history.” From that, you mi...
Op-eds
Does Trump Intend to Thwart Iran’s Ambitions in Syria?
As if President Donald Trump isn’t facing enough problems already (some, unfortunately, of his own making — see Charlottesville, Virginia), here’s one more to add to the list: I...
Op-eds
Turkey Trumps Up the Charges against the Imprisoned U.S. Pastor
Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan today issued an emergency decree giving himself the authority to trade foreign citizens held in Tu...
Policy Briefs
Time to end the North Korea sanctions merry-go-round
Co-authored by Jamie Fly. The vote came as the North Korean regime threatened a “pre-emptive nuclear strike” on the United States. China and Russia joined the United...
Op-eds
US, Kuwait continue mediation over Qatar crisis but resolution to dispute is remote
Washington- A month after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson failed to help resolve the Qatar dispute, the United States is trying a new round of shuttle diplomacy to end the bitter row bet...
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Middle East and Africa/US politics: US mediation in the Gulf flounders amid divided opinion
The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has continued to push for dialogue and an end to the boycott of Qatar to resolve the ...
Op-eds
U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Syria Will Fail Without U.S. Leverage
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated last week that the U.S. has “chosen the theater in Syria as a place in which...