In the annual spring ritual, the Pentagon brings its tin cup to Congress to beg for appropriations. Earlier this month, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tried to explain to some bewildered members of Congress why the Pentagon required so...

He’s the most respected journalist in U.S. history, and for decades Seymour Hersh has consistently broken major international stories, winning him the Pulitzer Prize among other prestigious awards of journalism. But the media establishment that once idealized him now...

At least 151 people, mostly militants, were killed. Another 30 were wounded: In Baiji, militants reported the death of a nephew of Saddam Hussein.

It's nice to see how the presidential candidates are being interrogated over their view of the Iraq war. When Megyn Kelly asked Jeb Bush "If you knew then what you know now, would you have ordered the invasion of Iraq?" he was so flummoxed that he could barely give a...

Last week, Israeli TV Channel 10 broadcast an investigative story about the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, known as "Lebanon War II". Though not very profound, it provided a good picture of what actually happened. The three main Israeli protagonists talked...

After I blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program in 2007, the fallout for me was brutal. To make a long story short, I served nearly two years in federal prison and then endured a few more months of house arrest. What happened to the torture program? Nothing....

The fall of Ramadi could be destroying Sunni support for Iraq’s effort to rid the country of the Islamic State militants. At least 61 were killed and 28 were wounded.

Although many in the United Kingdom thought that the Conservative Party would ultimately lose control of the government to a coalition of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party in the recent election, Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservatives won an...

Today, 40 years after the American war in Vietnam ended in ignominious defeat, the traces of that terrible conflict are disappearing. Traveling through Vietnam during the latter half of April 2015 with a group of erstwhile antiwar activists, I was struck by the...