The career of Iraj Masjedi, including his service at Base Ramezan and his promotion to senior adviser to Qassem Suleimani, highlights a cycle of generational change within the IRGC QF, and offers an indication of where to find Iran's future Quds Force leaders.

Every Kurdish official, foreign businessman, or diplomat, knows that regional leader Masud Barzani and his immediate family have far greater power than Kurdistan’s constitution indicates.

The IAEA’s report on an Iranian nuclear bomb was predictable and inevitable.

It's not exactly a secret that the president would very much like to wind-down military operations (and he is hardly alone). It will surely be tempting to use the death of bin Laden as an opportunity to declare victory and withdraw from Afghanistan, in whole or in part.

The transition from tyranny to freedom is far more difficult when people who must learn to make free decisions do not know their real history. When Nazi Germany was occupied by Allied forces at the end of World War II, all official documents were brought to a central location...

Iraqi Kurdistan's leaders speak of democracy but have become drunk with power and disdainful of public accountability.

The fight against terrorism is no closer to success today than it was a decade ago when, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared a Global War on Terrorism.

Before Saddam Hussein was ousted, Iraqi Kurdistan was more democratic than the rest of Iraq, but this is no longer the case.