If you're sick of our foreign policy of perpetual war and yet have an instinctive disdain for all things Republican, you have an alternative to Rand Paul in 2016 – Jim Webb. Yes, I know we're all supposed to believe Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination locked...

The year 2015 will surely mark a watershed in relations between the United States and Russia, one way or the other. However, whether tensions increase – to war-by-proxy in Ukraine or an even wider war – or whether they subside depends mostly on President Barack Obama....

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and discuss Australia’s role in the conflict. At least 60 people were killed and 104 were wounded, many of them in a battle in Dujail.

At least 91 people were killed and 27 more were wounded in the latest round of violence.

At least 65 were killed and one policeman was wounded. Almost two-dozen bodies were discovered dumped in a river.

"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you," said Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait hung in the Cabinet Room of the Reagan White House. Among the dispositions shared by the two conservatives was...

Introduction: The recent Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture is arguably the single most important U.S. government document released to date in this still-young 21st century. Yet even with all its richly revealing detail about the CIA’s recourse to...

During 2014, the number of casualties in Iraq increased dramatically. At least 48,590 were killed and 26,516 were wounded. The surge in violence began shortly before the start of the year when the government forcibly closed a protest camp in Anbar province. By midyear, Islamic State militants from Syria had taken advantage of the situation, brutally co-opting the rebellion in Anbar, and wreaking havoc elsewhere in the country.

At least 231 people were killed and 13 more were wounded, as U.S. forces have begun to train their first group of fresh Iraqi recruits.

The progression of the government's case indicting North Korea for hacking Sony's computer system – and revealing the petty ego-trips of Hollywood's glitterrati – was succinctly summed up by computer security expert Jeffrey Carr in a pithy tweet: "NK did it 100%...