Face-to-face talks over the weekend between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Islamabad ended without a peace agreement. Vice ...

This headline captures President Donald Trump and the Republicans’ midterm election problems in a nutshell: Inflation in ...

The U.S. will survive, given the blessings of geography and technological and economic might. But hegemonic transitions are ...

For centuries, Kurds were a vital element of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires. These two great Islamic, multiethnic states achieved stable bilateral relations in the 17th century following ...

Ideas such as identity as an illusion and journey as a means of devotion appear throughout much of Kiarostami’s work. In his finest film, 1997’s devastatingly simple but mesmerizing Taste of Cherry, ...

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press, 435 pages.

For much of its modern history, Cuba was a de facto protectorate of the United States. After Cuba’s liberty from Spain was ...

A two-week ceasefire in the Iran War entered its sixth day Monday as President Donald Trump moved to impose a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after weekend peace talks in Islamabad failed ...

The war of choice in Iran could well end Trump’s presidency and remake the Western economic and political order.

Listen to the Trump administration’s assessments of the war in Iran, and you could be forgiven for believing that Washington’s biggest adversary in the Middle East was at death’s door. When he’s not ...

Nor does Jael sit on her hands in fear, like a flattened vision of housewifery on offer by some who use the tradwife label online. Jael’s measured attack, using her ordinary household tool, against an ...

West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, by Mohammad Soliman. Polity Books, 272 pages.