Iraq’s ambassador to the U.N., Mohamed al-Hakim, called for an investigation into reports that the Islamic State militants are harvesting organs. At least 157 were killed and 24 were wounded across Iraq.

As the American cable news entertainment channels focus on the artificial "American Sniper" controversy, the Obama administration’s issuance of its second and final national security strategy (the last one was done in 2010) was buried deep in the back pages...

Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces” anywhere in the world for the next three years. This is a blank check for the president to start as many new wars as he wishes,...

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that Iraq is preparing to retake Mosul. He gave no details beyond that it would take several months. This announcement comes despite the near collapse of military forces in Anbar this week. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah...

Francis Fukuyama's famous essay "The End of History?" contains a phrase that aptly describes the common conception of Europe today: positing that the ideological battle for liberal democracy has already been won, Fukuyama describes what he calls the...

After a lull of some two months – a break punctuated by the toppling of Yemen’s government – the US drone campaign in Yemen has resumed. The pattern that has emerged is distressingly familiar. While the US government can claim the death of radical...

Who Is the Ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course. Wrong The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world's tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who...

With the number of forces in the Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias possibly being twice that of Iraq’s army, the U.S. government faces the challenge that it may win the war against the Islamic State militants but still lose Iraq to Iran. The militias may also be destroying any hope of future Iraq unity.

Iraqi military forces abandoned the town of al-Baghdadi, which is near the air base where about 300 U.S. Marines are stationed. Also, a high profile Sunni leader was assassinated. At least 136 people were killed and 20 were wounded.

In the early morning hours of February 12, leaders of Russia, France, Germany and the Ukrainian junta emerged bleary-eyed from the presidential palace in Minsk to announce a deal that would halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine. At first glance, the 13-point memorandum...