At least 42 people were killed and 97 more were wounded in fresh violence. Most of the attacks were in Baghdad and Mosul, but a former lawmaker was killed in rare violence south of the capital.

After a year of talks over the post-2014 US military presence in Afghanistan, the US administration announced last week that a new agreement had finally been reached. Under the deal worked out with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US would keep thousands of troops...

The news that the P5 + 1 and the Iranians have reached an interim agreement limiting Tehran’s nuclear program sent a chill down my spine. That may seem like a counterintuitive reaction: after all, wouldn’t a shout of joy be more appropriate? Finally, after decades of...

At least 19 people were killed and 28 more were wounded in the latest violence in Iraq.

At least 51 people were killed and 97 more were wounded as bombers moved back into northern Iraq.

Should we trust Obama to be honest in his peace talks with Iran and Syria? His lightning shift from warmonger to peacemaker surprised everyone, including his closest regional allies – Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – not to mention the entire U.S. congress, many of...

Eighteen years ago, "peace in Bosnia" seemed as elusive as peace in the Middle East. Every effort to negotiate an end to the bloody civil war had failed. But on November 21, 1995, after three weeks of drama in Ohio, the "General Framework Agreement for...

IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria – Concerns are rising that courts run by Islamic clerics in many of Syria’s rebel-held areas may serve as a prelude to Taliban-style justice in what was long a violently repressive but secular state. Many on the ground counter that they are...

At least 32 were killed in continuing attacks throughout central and northern Iraq. Another 65 people were wounded.

So you thought we were withdrawing from Afghanistan, eh? The President has announced it enough: once in 2011, once in 2012, and once in 2013. So if someone says something often enough, does that make it necessarily true? Well, of course not, and certainly not in this...