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Iran said Monday, the 13th day of a two-week ceasefire, that it still has no plans to participate in a new round of negotiations with the U.S. In a press conference on Monday morning, Iran’s Foreign ...

Robert Skidelsky, the award-winning British author and economic historian, died last Wednesday of a brain infection. He was 86. Skidlesky, best known for his widely acclaimed three-volume biography of ...

The true constitution of any political state is not merely a piece of parchment, but rather a body of fundamental laws and ...

The United States finished handing over all its major military bases in Syria to the new government, ending a decade of American military presence in the country. U.S. troops were first stationed ...

Understanding what the U.S. is really negotiating with Iran—the shifting of the balance of power in the Middle East—points to the one truly nonnegotiable term: the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of ...

Trump again threatened to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure if Iran refuses to reach a deal, writing, “We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they ...

After an opening round of peace talks in Islamabad last weekend, President Donald Trump announced a plan to blockade the ...

The Chicago-born Bobby Fischer held the distinction between 1972 and 1975 after he defeated the Russian Boris Spassky in what is still called the “Match of the Century.” The championship, played in ...

A two-week ceasefire in the Iran War entered its 11th day on Saturday, as Iran reasserted the closure of the Strait of Hormuz ...

How could this happen? Why all this support for the MAGA movement? Why this recent explosion of right-wing populism? John Gray, late of the London School of Economics, had something to say about the ...

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 ...