Changing phrases to be for or against Israel is part of the job.
Politicians in Syria, Turkey, and the United States are getting in the way of relief efforts.
Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.
And their team wanted nothing to do with politics.
After a month of tear gas and beatings and gunfire, Iranians may not be convinced to move on so easily.
It's the economics of energy production that make petrostates more trigger-happy, Emma Ashford argues in Oil, the State, and War.
U.S. taxpayers have been paying for training that encourages aggressive policing.
What the John Mearsheimer controversy tells us about theory’s role in international affairs.
Neither side needs military aid funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
Anne-Marie Slaughter hasn’t given up on intervention and the “responsibility to protect” doctrine.
He fought ISIS and volunteered as a medic for BLM. Now he's been arrested for threats against pro-Trump rioters.
Trump brought chaos to a region already on the brink, and the unintended consequences of his actions will reverberate for years to come.
While fentanyl is a dangerous drug, it is very difficult to overdose on it through accidental exposure.
Leaked police documents show how U.S. counterterrorism agencies spread myths and panic about fentanyl.
Rocket attacks and "precision defensive strikes" will bring us ever closer to truly endless war.
The administration has been quietly escalating against Iran and its allies using a selection of counterterrorism laws that allowed it to act without going through Congress or the public.
The Kurds of Northern Syria are trying something different, for better or worse.
The Trump administration is treating people of Iranian origin like a potential fifth column.
Militarized borders and military intervention are two sides of the same coin.
American troops are risking their lives to defend Syrian oil fields, but U.S. law is stopping anyone from using the oil. One man tried to “fix” the situation—or was it a con?
There are Middle Easterners hidden among the Latin Americans seeking entry at the U.S. border. But they're not who you think.
Trump decided to pull U.S. troops out of Syria. But no one knows when or how it's happening and Congress is nowhere to be found.
The former president of Iran, who once banned Twitter, discovers the joys of social media.
Chaldean-Assyrians aren't safe in their home country. But reuniting with family in a new one feels impossible.
Tax increases aimed at balancing the government budget have squeezed the poor and middle class and sparked a wave of protests.
The vigorous debate over censorship shows how much Iran has changed in recent years.
Clash for the third time in two years in U.S. between supporters and opponents of Erdo?an.
