"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%...

The liberation of Duluiya has apparently left hundreds of militants dead, but this has yet to be independently confirmed. Meanwhile, the Islamic State militants are claiming to have downed a fighter plane in Diyala province. At least 437 were killed and 34 were wounded.

In the latest exaggerated media frenzy over a news story, the alleged North Korean hacking of Sony Pictures’ computers has been called "cyberterrorism" against "who we are" as a country." First, "terrorism" is word that should...

“Never was there a greater need than now for all the religions to combine, to pull their wisdom and to give the benefit of that combined, huge repository of wisdom to international law and to the world.” The words are those of Christopher Weeramantry, former judge at...

At least 75 people were killed and 69 more were wounded. The most significant attack took place at a funeral just north of Baghdad.

In last year's New Year's column I contended that the Iranian nuclear issue is undoubtedly the most important question the United States would be facing in the coming year, and – for once – my prediction turned out to be largely correct. The ongoing negotiations,...