I've been hesitating to comment on the "Middle East peace process," but I guess there comes a point at which…
Anti-Kurd hardliner Osama al Nujaifi has been elected Speaker of the parliament in Baghdad, but then he and the rest…
The International Herald Tribute surprised me yesterday by publishing a piece I did a couple of weeks ago with Soren…
Maliki and Allawi have at long last apparently cut a deal putting Allawi's people in as speaker of the parliament…
President Obama scored points this week by supporting India's bid for a permanent (non-veto) seat on the 15-member UN Security…
Even for the chair of Senate Foreign Relations, this is an unusually frenetic trip to important places. The envoy: Kerry…
A healthy reminder of where we've been, but then it is hard to credit Walt's remark that Obama's "foreign policy...looks…
Marc Lynch thinks the Special ("Zombie") Tribunal for Lebanon lacks credibility, so why give it $10 million? But the more…
Laura Rozen reviews Senator Kerry's visits to Khartoum, Beirut and Damascus. Clearly well-coordinated with State, but also clearly calculated to…
The place to start these days on Iran is Robin Wright's The Iran Primer. The many short pieces therein are…