Assad's fall, like Qaddafi's, is likely to produce extended illiberal chaos or a new set of autocrats.
The Kazakh ambassador argues that his government is making serious efforts to be open and transparent.
North Korea is about to violate its recent missile-test agreement and several UN resolutions. Washington is running out of options.
Welcome to the new age of Israeli missile defense, brought to you in part by Washington.
President Obama's recent speech erased all traces of candidate Obama's pledge to transform Washington's poisonous political culture.
Fearmongering about nuclear-arms races has been wrong before, and it's wrong now on Iran.
U.S. withdrawal could bring a new Afghan civil war—or worse, the division of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Erdogan has been called everything from Islamist terrorist to ally. Washington must figure out where it stands on Ankara.
Faced with a troubled region, high-maintenance allies and an increasingly opaque government, Baku sees trouble ahead.
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