Iraqi troops asserted control over the Basra neighborhoods that had been Sadrist "strongholds" and continue to make progress.

Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgents are turning against al Qaeda, and that is not a bad thing.

India's experience in Kashmir provides a model for Pakistan's counterinsurgency operations in its tribal lands.

The United States wants to hit the "reset button" in its relations with Russia, but the prospects for the items on the agenda are mixed at best.

Vladimir Putin has transformed Russian foreign policy both ideologically and politically since coming to power in 2000.

The post-9/11 activist U.S. foreign policy cannot but be increasingly at odds with the Kremlin’s post-imperial "restoration."