The next round of bilateral talks between the U.S. and Russia have been cancelled, and the bilateral talks between Russia and Ukraine are stuck. Pushed out of the news, but not out of Ukraine, Russian ...

Iran was caught off-guard. But Iran recovered more quickly from its Pearl Harbor moment than Israel expected. In less than 18 ...

As the largest consumer of Iranian crude, China might intervene to restore the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf. Houthi ...

There has been some controversy about whether the Trump administration ought to join Israel’s bombing campaign to finish off Iran’s nuclear sites—controversy and even hysteria, as the neoconservatives ...

Ryan Costello has been a policy fellow at the National Iranian-American Council since 2013 and currently serves as policy director.

Dick Cheney is to George W. Bush as Netanyahu could soon be to Trump: The “America First” president is being led on a string ...

Trump has expressed his admiration of the Israeli operation, noting that the strikes were “excellent” and “very successful,” but has also called for a negotiated end to the conflict. “Iran must make a ...

To secure a non-nuclear Iran, Trump should guarantee regime security in Tehran.

The U.S. Supreme Court released its ruling Wednesday morning for U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding a Tennessee law prohibiting doctors from providing puberty blockers and hormone replacement treatments to ...

Few on either side of the 2013 Syria debate found those assurances believable. There was limited appetite at the time for ...

Perpetual war hawks are trying hard to fool conservatives into believing that “America First” really means America last.

I have been fascinated with the conduct of empires in their late stages because they are so multicausal and historically rich ...