The Biden administration quietly waived sanctions on Iran to allow the hardline regime to sell electricity to Iraq, according to a non-public notification obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that was provided…
Federalist columnist Willis L. Krumholz, speaking for Middle America in an insightful article, asks, “The Fundamental Question is: Why is America Still in the Middle East?” (The Federalist Daily Briefing,…
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In Bertolt Brecht’s drama, The Good Person Of Sechwan, the Gods are looking for a kindhearted individual. Their search almost ends in failure. Finally, they…
by Kelly Cobiella, Yuka Tachibana, and Ben Adams • NBC The grandmother lifted her face to heaven and let out a high wail. “I pray for this…
by New York Post Just three years ago, President Obama famously ridiculed GOP opponent Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia remained America’s main geopolitical foe by taunting: “The 1980s are calling…
by Investor’s Business Daily The White House was “surprised” by a new intelligence-sharing pact among Iran, Syria, Russia and Iraq to fight the Islamic State. But given their own actions,…
Iran, Russia, Syria, Iraq form joint war room by Adam Kredo • Washington Free Beacon A senior Iranian military leader warned this weekend that “all…
by Caroline Glick • RealClearPolitics The US has striven to achieve peaceable relations between the states of the Middle East for nearly 70 years. Yet today,…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Via the Kurdish media network Rudaw: Commemorating the Day of International Criminal Justice, Halabja civil society organizations, authorities, civil society activists and victims of chemical weapons renewed…
By Shawn Macomber In response to the recent awful-yet-sadly predictable video of Islamic State fighters destroying irreplaceable ancient artifacts in Mosul, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization…
By Charles Krauthammer • The Washington Post His secretary of defense says, “The world is exploding all over.” His attorney general says that the threat of…
by Peter Huessy In 2012, Robert Kaplan wrote in the “The Revenge of Geography” that countries of the “Heartland” and “Rimland”, stretching from North Korea southward through South Asia and…
Public support for the president’s foreign policy is waning—and he’s losing Democratic lawmakers by William A. Galston • Wall Street Journal In March my Brookings colleague…
by Rich Lowry • Politico Magazine President Barack Obama’s stated goal in the fight against the Islamic State, aka ISIL, is to reduce it to a…
by Dr. Laurie Ann Mylroie On Sunday, Massoud Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan, called on the international community to provide arms directly to the Kurdish Regional Government to enable it…