Israel is the main destabilizing force in the Middle East, and its attacks on Iran are being made possible by U.S. support. We bear special responsibility to work to end the bombing.

The U.S. military is rerouting the USS Nimitz carrier strike group to the Middle East ahead of schedule from the South China ...

Russia is pushing itself as a candidate to hold Iran's enriched uranium in hypothetical peace arrangements with Israel.

The evidence of the Russian’s uncanny and growing influence over Trump suggests that perhaps he is now the de facto US ...

A federal judge ordered the government to restore funding to hundreds of grants issued by the National Institutes of Health ...

The U.S. president insists he wants peace and claims no involvement in Israel’s military campaign against Iran. But ...

Both Iran and Israel have good reason to see the current conflict as existential, with few remaining mediators deemed ...

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Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, ...

Iran has vowed to retaliate against the U.S., too, while Trump has warned: “If we are attacked in any way, shape, or form by ...

The latest Middle East conflict is a combination of events that could not be prevented and the sense that countries sometimes ...

Playing the Game In the lead-up to Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its military leadership, Pres. Trump posed as a peacemaker ...