Bashar al Assad is right. There is an international conspiracy to bring him down. The United States, Turkey, much of…
1. International Responsibility After Libya, January 9, 10 -11:30 AM, Brookings Institution The question of international responsibility for protecting civilians…
The Arab League, meeting today in Cairo, got it right: it is not their human rights monitors who have failed,…
Someone might imagine that I would be unhappy with the President's strategic guidance for the Defense Department, released last week. …
Geoffrey Curfman reports, from the Carnegie Endowment yesterday: Ali Tarhouni, former finance and oil minister in the National Transitional Council…
Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council (SNC), suggests "an international conference on Syria to stop the atrocities and…
I spent the morning with people who know a lot more about Yemen than I do. Nothing about the discussion…
The more I watch this poor-quality video, the more I realize the poor quality of the intellect speaking: This is…
Today's news that the Taliban have agreed to open an office in Doha, where they have been meeting for months…
Is 2012 the year of war with Iran? Some would say the war has already begun: assassinations, explosions, and cyberattacks…