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.

Two years after Syria’s uprising began, what role is Iran now playing? What specifically is it providing to Syria? AEI's Will Fulton provides clarity in a Q&A with the United States Institute of Peace.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has conducted an extensive, expensive, and integrated effort to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power as long as possible while setting conditions to retain its ability to use Syrian territory and assets should he fall.

How far are we from a future in which there are many more “no-go zones” because we can’t control what happens in the skies above them, let alone on the ground?

Republicans are right to want to restore American credibility, but shaming Obama into military action is unwise.

Barack Obama has been doing a lot of blinking lately. On Syria especially.

His edict on chemical weapons was an unforced error. Now Iran will watch closely to see what America does. 

Allowing a tin pot tyrant of al-Assad’s caliber to ignore a red line laid down by the president of the United States sends a message to every other would be adversary: a threat from Barack Obama means very little. Very little indeed.