A SINGLE strike took on singular importance. When America attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities last month, both supporters and opponents thought it would have outsize consequences. Critics feared it ...
A Senate Democrat wants to ensure that Congress can weigh in before the U.S. leaps into "another endless conflict" in the Middle East, a sentiment shared by President Donald Trump. Sen. Tim Kaine, ...
The United States has attacked Iran. Just days after suggesting he might delay any American military action for weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on June 21 that U.S. aircraft had struck ...
The War on Terror led to regime change in Iraq and a briefly democratic Afghanistan — at least until former President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal. More ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Wahid Hanna of the International Crisis Group about the ceasefire between Israel and Iran and other diplomatic efforts to stabilize the wider region. The ...
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they’ve found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world. By Thomas E. Ricks Thomas E. Ricks, the Book Review’s military ...
Recent diplomatic efforts by Washington and Beijing have either excluded key actors or entrenched existing divisions As Israeli bombs continue to pound Tehran and other sites throughout Iran, we are ...
Editor’s Note: This story was updated to include coauthors. We regret the error. The “12-day war” between Iran and Israel, as coined by President Trump, may ...
People gather on a hill to watch smoke rising in the distance from an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, Iran, on June 14, 2025. Iran's foreign minister said the country would respond "decisively and ...
David Makovsky of The Washington Institute shares his take on President Trump's 20-point plan for a ceasefire in Gaza. For more analysis of President Trump's plan, we've called someone who's worked on ...
For decades, predictions about a war with Iran carried an air of inevitability: Analysts warned a conflict would close the ranks of the Iranian military and political elite, unite the Iranian people ...
The silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in a brutal civil war between 2020 and 2022, was a rare example of peacemaking ...