I once asked a man who had worked in Saddam Hussein’s palace whether he had ever heard him swear. “No, he did not have a habit of swearing. He would fall silent when he became angry, but sparks would ...

The masked gunmen of Jaish al-Adl are probably not the kind of people Donald Trump had in mind when he talked about “regime ...

President Donald Trump visited the Middle East in May but devoted little attention to one of the region’s most pervasive challenges: religious intolerance and persecution. Virtually every country, ...

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

The news that an Iranian website has crowdfunded a 40 million dollar bounty to be paid to any assassin who manages to kill ...

An interview with Steve Coll, author of the new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of ...

The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Seth Cropsey’s recommendation is based more on hope than good sense.

The White House official said he hoped future leaders would "appreciate the value and respect that torture shows towards ...

In 1990, the world watched in disbelief as Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army invaded Kuwait, triggering a global crisis. What ...

The Persian Gulf War was a showcase of the combined arms capability of the United States. Yet, Iraq still had a formidable ...