When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.