After a year of fruitless negotiations that are expected to resume soon, Iranian and U.S. experts are urging both sides to show more flexibility and make more concessions on its nuclear programme. A letter written this month by seven former Iranian parliamentarians...
As Barack Obama renews his lease on the White House for another four years, his administration is debating how best to respond to a growing internal and public controversy over his first term’s non-battlefield counter-terrorist weapon of choice: armed drones. Armed...
It's said you can discern a man's character by who his friends are, which may or may not be true, but in my view there's a much more reliable way to gauge what someone's all about: by who his enemies are. In Chuck Hagel's case, it tells the whole story. Who are...
A UN investigation into the legality and casualties of drone strikes has been formally launched, with a leading human rights lawyer revealing the team that will carry out the inquiry. The announcement came as the latest reported US drone strike in Yemen was said to...
Abraham Lincoln referred to the "terrible arithmetic" that it would take for the Union to win the civil war, meaning that the greater number of soldiers supported by the more advanced economy would eventually wear the Confederates down, though at great cost...
John Kerry and Chuck Hagel--two of the best mainstream nominees that President Obama could have selected for Secretaries of State and Defense, respectively--will soon face Senate confirmation. With these nominees, hopefully Obama is signaling a veering away from...
