The Biden Administration’s strategy of de-escalation at all costs has not been working against Iran and its proxies

The Biden administration’s weakness abroad is part of a targeted appeal to its progressive base at home

How should America respond to the January 28th attacks on American forces in Jordan by Iranian proxies?

The United States still has a critical leadership role to play in the Middle East—the Abraham Accords were only a starting point.

The connection between al Qaeda and Iran was hardly recognized until the discovery of documents in Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan

For Nicholas Kristof to say that Americans “are willing to starve Yemeni schoolchildren” because “we dislike Iran’s ayatollahs” is so simplistic as to be immoral in itself.

The Arab coalition and the US find themselves in the awkward position of directly and indirectly supporting al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula while they fight the Houthis in Yemen.

Though the Yemen conflict is in many ways a proxy war between Iran and the Saudi coalition, it is much more complicated, and not all the blame should be placed on the coalition for worsening the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.