Middle East

The Middle East is at a crossroads. The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout confronts regional leaders with a stark choice: dial down tensions to open the door toward cooperation in tackling existential challenges or risk ever…

CENTCOM's Kenneth McKenzie supports a very broad mission for America in the Middle East. Is it any wonder we haven't left?

Home Office propaganda unit working on campaigns in Tunisia, Morocco and Lebanon aimed at people deemed vulnerable to violent extremism

American foreign policy is now in free fall. Subject to the erratic impulses of a president whose overriding concern is the domestic political arena, and confronted by ambitious adversaries whose capacity to shape events on the global stage…

More than a third, 36 percent, of all weapons traded worldwide are now manufactured in the United States. Major arms transferred from the United States went to a total of 96 countries. The largest exporters of weapons in the last five…

If there is any lesson to be learned from three decades of American interventions, it is that the politics of foreign lands are far too complicated for an outside superpower to intervene and not produce costly unintended consequences.

The world is saying no to war with Iran and US out of the Middle East. Hundreds of protests were held in the United States and around the world on Saturday with a unified voice of “No War.” These protests are in solidarity with massive…

Critical legal information for US servicemembers concerned about the legality and morality of deployment to and orders about the Middle East and war against Iran

As the assassination of Suleimani shows, it might be Washington that is the main spoiler in the region

By the twisted logic of Imperial Washington you could say the Iranians were asking for it. After all, they had the nerve to locate their country right in the middle of 35 U.S. military bases! Then again, your saner angels may ask: What…