Russian President Vladimir Putin’s abrupt announcement that Russia would begin “the withdrawal of the main part” of its military “contingent” from Syria has been widely seen not only as a welcome surprise, but also as a hopeful fillip to serious negotiations to end...

At least 91 people were killed, not including another 45 PKK who were killed in Turkish strikes in northern Iraq. Peshmerga forces were the target of a new chemical attack.

As the government’s fight to eliminate encryption as we know it, and ensure themselves unfettered access to all of all Americans’ communications, spreads out of the most-mediagenic example with Apple, Barack Obama has weighed in, using some of the oldest...

Peace is the keystone of liberty and prosperity. To completely understand why, it will be important to develop a theory of peace. Most arguments against war at least partially rely on empirical evidence. Anti-war literature tends to draw from past calamitous...

Jeffrey Goldberg’s newly published book-length article on Barack Obama and the Middle East includes a major revelation that brings US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Syrian diplomacy into sharper focus: it reports that Kerry has sought on several occasions without...

Iraqi Kurdistan’s parliamentary speaker survived an assassination attempt.

Witnesses say they have seen Daesh disappear from several western towns in Iraq.

Chemical attacks continued in the Turkmen town of Taza. Meanwhile, Turkey killed dozens of PKK guerillas in unauthorized airstrikes.

Americans can sleep easier now that the US military has wiped out 150 more “terrorists.” US airstrikes over Somalia targeted al-Shabab militants, who were, according to Pentagon spokesperson Captain Jeff Davis, planning “offensive operations.”...

Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement exploded into the headlines, violence by American police officers has come under fire from activists and ordinary citizens alike. Less discussed, however, is how the U.S. government winks at the police brutality of its client...