Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region.

If the U.S. wants to break the military stalemate in Syria, force Assad into political concessions or aid in his ouster, eliminating his air power should be the first order of business.

Pretending that Congress should avoid a domestic base closure round because we need to target overseas bases first simply ignores reality and the real money it is generating as a result of these savings.

All is not well in the City of Lights, as Pakistan's major metropolis, Karachi, is known.

Analyzing the patterns and nuances of the IRGC's public statements provides critical insight into the way some of Iran’s decision-makers are thinking about their security challenges and their own strategies.

The fight now going on in the strategic city of Qusayr has already spilled over into neighboring Lebanon.

Thinking strategically about the Muslim world, and Syria in particular, hasn’t been easy for Americans, but we ought to recognize that there are consequences for failing to do so.

The Pakistani Taliban's impact on elections in Pakistan has already been clearly visible. Its attacks have, intentionally or otherwise, helped amplify the voice of conservative parties that claim to seek to part Pakistan from its alliance with the U.S. and to open peace talks with the Taliban

It is clear even now, however, that the Obama administration’s willful blindness to the continuing threat of international terrorism is a major reason for its mistakes before, during, and after the murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his colleagues.

Xi Jinping's plan for peace in Israel is another sign of global Chinese ambitions—and waning U.S. influence.