Obama administration officials have labeled the United Nations’ failure to act on Syria as “outrageous” and a “travesty”.  But that’s about all they’ve done about Syrian dictator Basher el Assad’s wanton murder of thousands of innocent Syrians.

It was a mistake for Representative Howard Berman to lift a hold on $100 million of funding to the Lebanese Armed Forces. It is an open secret among Lebanese of all political stripes that Hezbollah has infiltrated the LAF.

Rescuing Lebanon from radicals and terrorists will require strong action, noticeably absent in recent U.S. policy.

Five months after United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 ended last summer’s war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s political landscape has descended into chaos. Since the implementation of a ceasefire last August, the Shiite militia led by Hassan Nasrallah has agitated for greater “power-sharing” and vowed to bring down the...

Faced with the likelihood of spreading violence and Iranian influence in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, will the next president make the hard choices to confront those threats to American national security, or will he or she seek to remain aloof?

At this event, panelists discussed U.S.-Syria policy.

This vision of relations will seem palatable to Americans and Iraqis who want to believe that all will be well after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. But the image is a mirage.

Developments in Turkey's foreign policy suggest that the Turkish government will pull away from Europe and the West, and instead pursue more exclusively relationships with the Middle East, Iran, Russia, and China.