Analyzing the patterns and nuances of the IRGC's public statements provides critical insight into the way some of Iran’s decision-makers are thinking about their security challenges and their own strategies.

The fight now going on in the strategic city of Qusayr has already spilled over into neighboring Lebanon.

Thinking strategically about the Muslim world, and Syria in particular, hasn’t been easy for Americans, but we ought to recognize that there are consequences for failing to do so.

It is clear even now, however, that the Obama administration’s willful blindness to the continuing threat of international terrorism is a major reason for its mistakes before, during, and after the murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his colleagues.

Turkey was once a staunch ally of the West and a reasonably free country. No longer.

Beneath the rhetorical embrace, the foundation of the U.S.-Turkish partnership is in danger.

In recent weeks, President Obama has worked assiduously to redefine and thereby back away from his earlier statements that Syria's Assad regime would face grave consequences if it used chemical weapons.

Why has the official position within the United States remained so unsympathetic to Kurdish aspirations?

Dam construction provide a mechanism by which IRGC members can insert themselves into other countries.

Terrorism will likely remain an impediment to Iran’s relationship with the West, even if the nuclear issue is resolved.