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There is no duty for any government more fundamental than protecting its people. The Constitution speaks of the “common ...

A rare opportunity for Lebanon and Syria to repair their relations and move beyond decades of political domination and ...

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The U.S. military attacked an oil port in western Yemen, killing dozens of people as the Trump administration continues to ...

During his papacy, Pope Francis—who died April 21—tirelessly advocated for peace in the face of what he relentlessly decried as a “world war fought piecemeal.” ...

Despite recent geopolitical shifts, the underlying drivers of militancy - from occupation to foreign intervention - remain ...

Tehran seeks an exit from a potential crisis with the U.S., while Israel pushes preemptive options to guarantee its safety ...

Washington stepped up military action against IS in Syria in the wake of Assad's overthrow, though it has more recently shifted its focus to strikes targeting Yemen's Huthi rebels, who have been ...

When Rep. Adam Smith asked his counterpart from across the Cascades to join him on a trip to Iraq, the Democrat from Bellevue got a response he hadn't often heard before. "I told him, 'Adam, I would ...

Kill them," recounted Sebastian Gorka, America’s new counter-terrorism chief, of Donald Trump’s orders just ten days after ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from February 2021 to February 2024.