Turkey’s push for peace with the Kurds is laudable, but politics and bad timing may doom the whole effort to collapse.

Russia appears to have triumphed on the battlefield in Ukraine, but in doing so it has done at least as much damage to itself as its poor neighbor.

Speaking out against Russian human rights abuses from the safety of Washington is easy. Doing it in Russia is hard. Doing it even though no one seems to care takes a steeliness of nerve few have.

Why the U.S. cannot ally with Iran to defeat the Islamic State.

No arms control agreement is likely to stop Iran, no matter what people inside and out of the administration would like to think.

What are the prospects for immigrants assimilating—in Europe as well as in the United States? Perhaps not as bad as you might believe.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was a rousing success. Now the next step is up to Congress.

By all appearances, Russia aspires to create a failed state on its own border. If this is the case, this also means the confrontation is less amenable to a diplomatic resolution.

With a real crisis brewing on Europe’s northeastern flank, leading “from behind” or leading from the “Mitte” just won’t do.

Remembering a hero, and a friend.