The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

Seth Cropsey’s recommendation is based more on hope than good sense.

The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after ...

This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region ...

In 1990, the world watched in disbelief as Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army invaded Kuwait, triggering a global crisis. What ...

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

The brutal fight against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq four decades ago shaped Tehran’s approach to the recent war and guides its ...

An interview with Steve Coll, author of the new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of ...

While the world rightly views the climate crisis as the most urgent threat posed by our dependence on oil, coal and gas, ...

Decisive though the American response on Iran may have appeared, it cannot compare with the bombing needed to wipe out North ...

As the ayatollah's grip on the country erodes, resistance groups need to show clearly whether they are fit to succeed the ...