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Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, only two months into his term, has a busy month of foreign engagements. In early July, he received the body of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei which was vi ...

Today's alliance politics, our assessments of the relationships between the U.S. and her allies, lacks cognitive empathy. And without empathy we retreat into caricature: the "Ugly America ...

Outside Syria's parliament building in Damascus, lawmakers filed past the stone façade for the chamber's first session since Bashar al-Assad's fall. Inside, the freshly minted ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, D.C. this week reignited controversial demands for his arrest in response to ongoing proceedings before the International Crimina ...

The Golden Arches Theory of diplomacy has taught that "no two countries with a McDonald's have ever gone to war with one another." While that theory hasn't held 100 percent sin ...

Earlier this year, Kazakhstan found itself thrust between two powers as the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, targeting Iran in airstrikes that prompted escalations across the region. Kaza ...

Peter Zeihan is not actually an optimist or a pessimist. He is a geopolitical strategist who has spent the better part of three decades arguing that geography, demographics, and energy are the actual ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is no stranger to the machinery of repression. He has throttled internet providers, monitored political opponents, and folded once-independent media into a loyal ...

Last August, President Trump hosted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House to sign a historic peace declaration, which Mr. Trump signed as wi ...

On March 4th, Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Not threatened, not contested, closed. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued warnings over VHF radio telling vessels that no ship was pe ...