After over fifty-three years of sitting on their throne in Damascus, the Assad family's regime has collapsed in Syria. Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow without a word, the rebels are in command of every major city and airport, and prisons have been opened. The...

There was a time, just before and just after Russia's invasion, that Ukraine might have lost no territory except Crimea and few lives. But America said no. In December 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the United States and NATO with a proposal on...

Washington finally completed its dirty war in Syria. What started as a CIA covert operation to smuggle weapons and jihadists from Libya to Syria has resulted in leader Bashar al-Assad being deposed and replaced by Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Julani found his way to...

On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC), after months of delay, finally issued arrest warrants as requested by the ICC Prosecutor for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Both men are charged with being...

The recent meeting between outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru offered a stark illustration of the divergent priorities and perspectives shaping the fraught U.S.-China relationship. While the Biden administration’s...

You turn your head for one moment to focus on turkey and stuffing, and all of the sudden the Syrian Civil War restarts. The conflict which erupted during the 2011 Arab Spring, and which over the course of a decade killed over half a million people, has been static...

On November 21, just two days after Ukraine acted for the first time on American permission to fire Western supplied long-range missiles deeper into Russia, Russia launched a missile attack on a military base in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. That base houses the...