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Shelly Kittleson, an American journalist, was kidnapped off the streets of Baghdad on March 31 and is now a bargaining chip for the militia that took her. It's a tragedy on r ...

In spite of all the Middle East's recent volatility, one thing remains clear: Turkey continues to try positioning itself as the region's indispensable hinge - a state too useful for ...

America's interventions in Venezuela and Iran show the difference between autocracy and ideology. Venezuela was ruled by an autocracy with Nicolas Maduro at the top. Iran is ruled by ...

Amidst confrontations over islands in the South China Sea, the Philippines signed a defense agreement with France. This comes on the heels of China's militarization of islands in the Philippines' Excl ...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan did not mince words as he toured the Middle East as the war in the region escalated: "It should be especially noted that the primary responsible party ...

In the days following the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, President Trump reiterated his prediction that the communist regime in Cuba, in power since 1959, would "fall pretty so ...

The West cannot surmount today's energy crisis by a single move. Even if the Iran war ended immediately reconstructing damaged and/or destroyed infrastructure will take a considerable time ...

Tehran's supreme leader is dead, its ballistic missile and drone capability significantly degraded, its navy destroyed, its nuclear sites rubble -- and Iran is winning. This is consistent with a ...

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, the formalities of diplomacy will conceal a far more consequential negotiation. At stake is not ...

The 2026 spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) take place from April 13-19 in Washington. High on the agenda will be a discussion of how to reduce debt, which has ...