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…
A decade after the removal of Saddam Hussein, we still appear reluctant to embrace one of the central lessons of Iraq: that regime change…
April marked the tenth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by the United States and its partners. At this juncture, it is…