New Iran Sanctions Inflame Tensions, Isolate U.S.
If you want to make Iranians poorer and more hostile to America, we've got a policy for you!
If you want to make Iranians poorer and more hostile to America, we've got a policy for you!
At least 242 civilians have been killed and at least 324 wounded by over 2,000 airstrikes, some of which were carried out by the American military.
"I have to accept my share of the blame for it," the ailing senator writes in a new book, even while defending several other interventions and surges.
The move pisses off America's allies, and makes military confrontation with Iran more likely.
Ending the deal would clear the way for Iran's nuclear weapons program and increase the likelihood of war.
Let's look back at our nation's questionable adventures in the Middle East.
"Millions of Iranians...don't want to live under a corrupt clerical fascist state" says Bloomberg's Eli Lake. Are the Islamic Republic's days finally numbered?
She started the first secular, pro-market party in Egypt. Then the government sent the secret police after her.
Jihadists would be no threat to Americans who were left to mind their own business.
Despite evidence they may make things worse, airstrikes are mistakenly seen as a perfectly reasonable response.
A new film tells the story behind the website Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
How the Arab world's top satirist was censored, persecuted, and driven out.
Big foreign policy heave, featuring Bloomberg's Eli Lake
A certain amount of danger is unavoidable in a multinational world. And the dangers of trying to achieve total security are the worst dangers of all.
But it revealed a split between America's actual foreign policy and Americans' self-image.
The president's speech articulates non-interventionist principles despite fiery rhetoric.
The rush to war in Syria will do more harm than good.
Q&A with author and New York Times columnist Mustafa Akyol.
With an off-hand remark, the president indicates the status quo of U.S.-supported Israeli occupation is fine with him.
Matt Welch talks with Borzou Daragahi and Pejman Yousefzadeh on SiriusXM Insight's The Dean Obeidallah Show 12-1 ET
Donald Trump's poorly designed and xenophobic executive order is attempting to improve on a perfect record. Republicans need to push back.
It's the first such death on the new president's watch.
Whistleblowers reveal the truth about the drone war to a nation that struggles to listen.
Every U.S. president since 1967 has officially opposed settlements as an obstacle to peace.
How an oppressive Middle Eastern country led to everybody's iPhones getting a security update.
Frontline details the history of ISIS.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants a bigger military but says he'll use it less.
The Middle East's hew hidden hands
Clinton and Cruz both condemn Trump's "isolationism," code for asking why America must police the planet.
Unlike Hillary Clinton and the Republicans at the pro-Israel lobby conference, Sanders acknowledged there are two sides to peace negotiations.
The former secretary of state does not learn from her mistakes, even when she admits them.
Who will call her on it?
If this is disestablishmentarianism American-style, we are in bad shape.
Clinton's intervention in Libya discredits her claim that she learned the lesson of Iraq.
Singing about peace and goodwill while cheering America's warrior state is a repulsive spectacle.
Let's look at a few recent news items about this oh-so-safe and peaceful country...
The U.S. government and its accomplices are waging actual war. In contrast, terrorists commit crimes.
'Death from Above' has shown little success as a long-term strategy against terrorists
Nothing about the word radical implies approval of aggression or terrorism.
The explanation is far more political than religious.
Assad was our son of a bitch when the U.S. government needed him. Then he outlived his usefulness.
Missing in many media accounts of Paris terrorism was any reference to France's bombing of Syria or that France is Syria's former colonial overlord.
Individual persons who did no harm to anyone are being slaughtered and starved with the help of American politicians and military bureaucrats.
Our lethal and self-defeating Middle East policy appears more aimed at Iran and its allies than at the radical jihadi network that perpetrated 9/11.
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