How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.
Times of strain often lead to explosions of religiosity, as people turn to faith as a balm against misfortune. The coronavirus pandemic,…
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…
Neither the United States nor Iran wants to go to war. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in the fog of crisis — similar in many…
For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.
As the Trump administration accuses Iran of attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, rising tensions create a real danger of stumbling…
PRESIDENT TRUMP FACES a fateful deadline on May 12: to decide whether to keep waiving nuclear-related sanctions on Iran or to rip up the…
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…