"The US-Iran Cold War since 1979 has destabilized and perverted the Middle East and prevented it from coming together. If we ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and potentially reap huge rewards.

Once dubbed “napalm girl,” she bears the physical and psychological scars of the war that nearly took her life. Her greatest wish today? To comfort the pilot who dropped the bomb.

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has undergone a significant transformation, from a Cold War-era defence pact into a ...

In February, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, my traveling companion and I boarded the Tazara, the acronym used fondly by its riders to refer to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. The journey felt like stepping ...

This war has created the best opportunity in decades for a wise statesman to use what one longtime Middle East negotiator calls “coercive diplomacy.” Is Trump up to that?

As Iran and Israel trade strikes and the US weighs joining in, wealthy Gulf states on the conflict's doorstep are engaged in frantic diplomacy to halt the war -- but solutions remain elusive.A ...

On Sunday, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of Black Swan fame, nastily posted the following on X: “Five decades ago, Binyamin Saddam also underestimated the Iranians & how long it would take to end the ...

In a composite image, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is depicted next to The West Wing’s President Jed Bartlet. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin/ Warner Bros.) Share If politics is now just a series ...