The GOP Senators’ letter to Iran was a bad, irresponsible move—but it may turn out for the best anyway.

No arms control agreement is likely to stop Iran, no matter what people inside and out of the administration would like to think.

And how important are they in the grand scheme of things?

Jordan’s King Abdallah trained as a Special Operations soldier as a young man. That may give you some insight into what kind of response ISIS should expect from Jordan in the wake of the immolation of its pilot.

The missing context behind the recent Hizballah attacks on Israel, and ISIS attacks on Saudi Arabia.

The State of the Union address had nothing to do with governing, everything to do with political posturing—with a mediated-image twist.

Prognostication is always a mug’s game, and nowhere more so than in the Middle East. Nevertheless, it’s a fun game to play, especially when the subject is a region so poorly understood by the U.S. mainstream media that it frequently gets blindsided by events.

In the course of an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep released earlier this week, President Obama tried to flatter the Supreme Leader and other assorted higher-ups in Tehran. Will it work?

The story of Hanukah—the “Sunday School” version, and what really happened.

The Senate’s torture report is a difficult document to parse—especially if you don’t have the proper historical context and knowledge.