Last week we saw an encouraging sign that the 50 year cold war between the US and Cuba was finally coming to an end. President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be reopened in each...

In withdrawing from negotiations with Greece's international creditors and holding a referendum on whether Greece should adopt the further austerity required by the lenders' financial aid package, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras figuratively pulled out a gun and...

At least 134 were killed across Iraq today, including a dozen people who died when an Iraqi plane accidentally dropped a bomb on Baghdad.

To hear Saudi leaders tell it, the primary threat to the kingdom’s stability is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Worried over Washington and Tehran’s slowly improving relationship, Riyadh has projected an increasingly militarized and sectarian foreign policy aimed...

By the time you read this, I'll already be undergoing yet another unpleasant medical procedure – yes, old age beckons! Which means, unfortunately, there's no column today: and I'll be recuperating through Tuesday, which means I won't be back at the old stand...

Israel’s chokehold over U.S. politics and politicians has been so powerful for so many decades that this obvious reality is routinely denied, a collective gagging of the truth that is itself a measure of how strong the Israeli grip is. The most potent and poignant...

VIENNA – A public diplomacy campaign by the Obama administration to convince world opinion that Iran was reneging on the Lausanne framework agreement in April has seriously misrepresented the actual diplomacy of the Iran nuclear talks, as my interviews with...

Iraqi strikes on multiple locations in Anbar province killed dozens of people, but it is unclear whether all the victims were militants. Fighting also increased throughout the province and into the Baiji area. At least 248 were killed and 128 were wounded.

On Friday, Iraqi jets dropped leaflets over Mosul, advising residents to listen to a new radio station that will give them further instructions once it begins to broadcast. The operation appears to imply that Iraqi forces are readying to liberate Mosul. At least 125 were killed and 60 were wounded in violence across the country, including several bombings in and around Baghdad.

Since April 2 when the Lausanne Accord was signed by Iran and P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany – the opposition, namely, the neoconservatives, the Republican Party, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and their lobbies in the...