If Trump wants to have a lasting positive impact on U.S. foreign policy in the region, being prudent rather than grand is the ...

For decades, the Middle East has been the region where diplomatic aspirations go to die. At least since U.S. President George ...

Trump’s idea of remaking Gaza as a real estate development is not a complete outlier in the long, troubled history of U.S.

But their sledgehammer swings are taking down their fellow Americans and destroying useful tools that, when deployed strategically, have been key to U.S. national and economic security for decades.

The ‘might makes right’ worldview and ambitions that drive the top US diplomat spearheading Trump’s foreign policy.

In 1989 and 1990, the George H.W. Bush Administration promoted negotiations ... Envoy George Mitchell and Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East to achieve it. Yet, both Bush and Obama ...

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

In other words, the U.S. would fight another major insurgency in the Middle East ... famously (if perhaps apocryphally) warned George W. Bush against invading Iraq by citing the Pottery Barn ...

The new cadre of national security officials is highly confident, highly online and scornful of Washington’s foreign policy consensus.

The damage done in our international relationships — and the lives we have and could save — will never be undone if USAID is ...