If the trial proceeds in camera and the court finds Collaery and Witness K guilty, they will join the legion of civil servants whose commitment to better government got them imprisoned

If you ask the stars to choose a place instead of the sky They will say Palmyra.’ – Yaseen al-Farjani The young…

The outcome in eastern Ghouta is not in doubt, but the cost depends on whether and when the rebels depart

Salahuddin Khan Mehsud is one tough cop. He has to be, working in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, a tribal region that the U.S.…

Is the goal to end the war or to defeat the al Assad government?

There is a loyal cadre of intellectuals and pundits favoring war after war, laying the moral ground for invasions and excusing them when they go wrong

Cablegate, the Afghan War Diary and other WikiLeaks exposures have made little difference to public policy

A FRENCH NEWS CAMERAMAN burst into the bar of Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, where his colleagues gathered most evenings, on November 17, 1983.…

Interview on America’s uncertain foreign policy in the region and the underlying forces propping up Assad’s government

It took less than a year for the armed militias that coalesced into the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamic Front to displace the pro-democracy demonstrators