Foreign Podicy

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — five years ago proclaimed the caliph of the Islamic State — has been eliminated by American Speci... Read more

H.R. McMaster served as a U.S. Army officer for thirty-four years—including deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan—before r... Read more

War will always be hell – but the laws of war were meant to make wars at least a little less hellish. In Syria, however,... Read more

For 1,300 years, there were caliphs — “successors” to the Prophet Muhammad. In 1924, however, the last caliph, Abdulmeci... Read more

Yaya Fanusie is the director of analysis at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit F... Read more

The threats facing the United States and its allies are not static. They grow. They transform. America’s defense strateg... Read more

For seven long years, Syria has been engulfed in civil war. The death toll now exceeds a half million. More than five mi... Read more

Israel is a tiny country: its land area about a fourth the size of the United Arab Emirates, its population less than th... Read more

The Chinese Communist Party represents a multi-faceted and increasingly formidable threat to the United States and its d... Read more

Syria has been at war for seven long years. More than a half million people have been killed. More than 11 million – clo... Read more

Yoram Hazony is a political philosopher, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and the author—most recently—of ... Read more

In the Middle East, elections are few, far between and rarely free and fair – except in Israel. After a tight, tough rac... Read more

Iran has a plan. February will be 40 years since Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to Tehran to lead what he called... Read more

There are three views on the Iran nuclear weapons deal, more formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (J... Read more

The acquisition of nuclear weapons has long been a central goal of Iran’s revolutionary Islamist rulers. President Obama... Read more

Four decades ago, Iran was convulsed by one of the great revolutions of the 20th century. The leader of that revolution:... Read more

Iranian-backed Hezbollah has made common cause with Latin America’s drug cartels. Their growing network launders huge am... Read more

Jihadists in Africa are not just spreading. They’re also learning and innovating.  Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have s... Read more

Israeli elections are approaching, President Trump’s envoys are working on a new plan aimed at resolving the Palestinian... Read more

If the attacks of September 11, 2001 were a second Pearl Harbor, where are we in the war that began on that day? Are we ... Read more