In July 1988, during his final year as secretary of state, George Shultz embarked on an eight-country, three-week tour of Asia. No crisis…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…
With the world focused on the United States and North Korea, it’s easy to forget that every president for a quarter-century has said…
For four years, American policy toward Syria has been built on a wish and a prayer: a wish that President Bashar al-Assad would leave and a…
It's fortuitous that a nuclear agreement with Iran was announced just days before Thanksgiving, a time when football crowds out foreign…
The deal to rid Syria of its chemical weapons program is done.
In a statement Saturday, Obama said "the United States remains prepared to…
Finding himself rushed into ordering a symbolic attack about which he had serious doubts, President Obama called time out and put the…
April marked the tenth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by the United States and its partners. At this juncture, it is…
A decade after the removal of Saddam Hussein, we still appear reluctant to embrace one of the central lessons of Iraq: that regime change…