Everyone agrees the President's speech tonight has to make it clear to the American people that the Islamic State in…
The seven week conflict between Hamas and Israel, dubbed Operation Protective Edge by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), began in…
Iraq's new Prime Minister Haider al Abadi got most of his cabinet through parliament yesterday. The Americans are celebrating. Abadi's…
While the OSCE has not yet posted an English version of Friday's agreement involving Russia and Ukraine, there is one…
My wife tells me this is a funny story, so I've decided to tell it outside the confines of my…
President Obama has now clarified his goal in the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): …
I moderated a panel of Balkans luminaries this week at the Bled Security Forum, an annual Slovenia-hosted gathering that this…
I've been anxious not to let the summer go by without reading Abubakar Siddique's The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key…
That was a gloomy but determined President Obama who spoke today in Talinn, Estonia about hope for the future of…
While the Middle East Institute published my piece on confronting the Islamic State in Syria today (see also below), The…