Sanctions will not persuade the Assad regime to surrender power, and talk about an embargo on luxury goods is a cruel joke.

For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

Immediately following the announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture by the U.S. military, many nongovernmental organizations and international institutions decried the idea of a trial by Iraqis. More importantly, they opposed the possibility of the death penalty as punishment for his crimes. Does international law preclude an eventual Hussein execution? Is...

Saddam Hussein is down to his last card: dividing America and Britain in the hope that the former will be unwilling to act alone to remove him from office.

Choosing war, especially preemptive war, is a difficult decision for democracies, but ithelp the United States and its allies avoid a much more dangerous conflict with a nuclear-armed Iraq.

Everything we know about Saddam Hussein forces President Bush to make a similar choice: to take pre-emptive action or wait, possibly until it is too late.

If Saddam is still in power and there are no inspectors three years from now, then we will have lost this war, because Iraq is a vastly greater threat to our cities than is Afghanistan.

Saddam Hussein must be stopped before he comes any closer to his dream of possessing a nuclear arsenal.