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…
On a recent Friday night in Moscow, I went for a stroll through Gorky Park, along the Moscow River. Mothers were pushing their toddlers in…
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…
The rapid slide from lawlessness to violence that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk,…
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…