The Washington Post’s neocon editors have made another strident appeal for President Barack Obama to “abandon his passivity and do something to help” the rebels in Syria, complaining that they “continue to receive far too little help from the United States.” The Post...

Shi’ite pilgrims wrapped up their yearly observance of Imam Kadhim’s death anniversary in Baghdad. Over 60,000 security personnel were on hand to protect the pilgrims as they traveled in and out of Baghdad to visit a large shrine where the Iman’s remains are said to rest.

At least 146 people were killed and 82 more were wounded across Iraq. Four of the fatalities were Iranians who were in Iraq working on a gas pipeline between the two counties. In Anbar Shelling in Falluja killed four people and wounded 19 more in several...

Pilgrims continued to be targeted in Baghdad, as were militants in Anbar province.

On May 13, an unusual weather pattern began hovering over the Balkans, dumping unprecedented amounts of rain on Bosnia, Serbia, and parts of Croatia. Satellite imagery showed a full-blown tropical cyclone, which the weather-watchers dubbed "Tamara." By May...

Justin is under the weather, his column will return Wednesday.George Packer, resident egghead-journalist at the New Yorker – and Iraq war supporter-turned-"anguished" semi-recanter – is the latest "liberal" to turn his guns on Edward Snowden and...

Does it not seem strange that, with the Cold War long over, the Paramount Enemies of the United States remain Russia and China? That is not a bad question to ponder with Vladimir Putin’s visit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. And there is no doubt that Russia and China...

Shi’ite pilgrims were targeted as they traveled to a shrine in Baghdad where the remains of Imam Kadhim are said to reside. In those attacks and other violence, at least 150 Iraqis were killed and 127 more were wounded.

On May 21, the $700 million dollar National September 11 Memorial Museum opened to the general public,12 years and change after that awful, now-historic day in September. The museum provoked controversy for years before it even opened. The astronomical cost – a...

The fighting continued in Anbar today, while gunmen and bombers took their toll elsewhere.