Syria, Yemen, Libya – one factor unites these failed states, and it isn't religion
As world leaders gather in Paris this week to address climate change, they will labor under the shadow of recent attacks by Islamic State....
Worst-case scenarios that are more likely than you think
The likelihood that a Russian charter airplane, Metrojet 9268, was felled by a bomb after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, highlights how many national security...
Appoint a few more Scalias, kiss democracy goodbye
Republican presidential candidates such as Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) have pledged to appoint a justice like Antonin Scalia to the U.S. Supreme Court, if...
Will Lebanon’s collapse herald Hezbollah dominance or demise?
Hezbollah and Iran appear more discomforted and defensive than at any time in recent memory, faced as they are with intensifying sanctions, financial hardship,...
Western dream of regime change in Iran is over, so what's next?
The signing of the nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 answered a question that has bedeviled the U.S.-Iranian relationship for 36 years.
Decades after...
Oil makes only one promise and that's volatility
Just about the only thing we know about where oil prices are headed over the next few years is that most of the forecasts...
Days after a suicide bombing, can Turkey pull back from the brink?
The date 10/10 is now synonymous with Turkey's most deadly terrorist attack in history - the day this month when two suicide bombers killed...
Iran regime would funnel international aid to IRGC
Iran is one of the hardest hit countries in the world when it comes to the number of people who have been infected with...
Fundamental Saudi shifts and the change coming to the Middle East
What will happen now that the strategy of US President Donald Trump on Iran and its proxies has finally converged with Saudi strategy, which...
Erdogan’s Syria plan unlikely to bear fruit
Media outlets in Turkey have claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised an important issue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their bilateral...
