In words that now haunt his own case, the journalist Jamal Khashoggi said, in August, that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has “no tolerance or willingness to accommodate critics.”

General Mazloum Kobani Abdi led the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, forging an unlikely partnership between scrappy local militias and élite U.S. Special Forces. Then the President...

The President’s remarks at Langley on Saturday, delivered in front of a hallowed memorial, stirred anger and astonishment among current and former agency officials.

The real danger would be the rippling effect of a ban on Syrian refugees, both abroad and in the U.S.

It’s a dishonorable end that weakens U.S. standing in the world, perhaps irrevocably.

The death of the leader of Iran’s élite Quds Force capped a week of hostilities between the United States and Iran which escalated with lightning speed.

President Trump seems a bit too ready to embrace the Saudi version of events.

An array of damning and specific hard evidence, as well as a psychological study, implicates Mohammed bin Salman in the journalist’s execution.

Citing a vague but sweeping cybercrime law, Saudi Arabia pressured Netflix into pulling an episode of Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” in which the comedian criticizes the Saudi royal family over the killing...

Recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman have heightened tensions between the United States and Iran and raised concerns about energy security.

The government’s actions appear to have contributed to the crisis.

The magazine has lauded journalists who risked their lives taking on despots and dysfunctional politicians. It’s telling that half of them were murdered.

At the Holocaust Memorial Museum, a new exhibit tells a survivor’s story of horror and humanity inside a Syrian prison.

Kids make up more than a third of all casualties in Aleppo. Their plight reflects the dangers to a postwar future in Syria.

Despite the Justice Department’s recent indictment of twelve Russian intelligence agents, in Helsinki, Trump fully embraced Putin’s bare-faced denial of U.S. election meddling.

Trump showed his ignorance about NATO’s mission—and the difference between defense and offense—in his recent comments about Montenegro.

In his death, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and former government supporter who became a vocal and fearless critic of the current Saudi crown prince, has galvanized global attention far more...

In a surprise announcement, the North indefinitely suspended a second round of talks with the South, blindsiding the White House.

Both Democrats and Republicans have been outraged by President Trump’s willingness to give the Saudi crown prince a pass in regard to the journalist’s killing.

Every President since Eisenhower has reached out to the Islamic world, even as they were tough on extremism. Trump is instead hinting at a crusade.

The President has ignored U.S. intelligence findings and given Saudi Arabia a pass on the grisly murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I sat at a desk across from the ISIS fighter Abu Islam as he recounted his violent past with chilling nonchalance.

The average life of a terrorist group is eight years, and only five per cent achieve their aims.

The diplomat discusses Donald Trump’s trial, the Ukraine crisis, U.S. foreign policy, and the dangers that the world will return to a time of dog-eat-dog hostility.

My dad often told us that he assumed that he would have sons, but he ended up with girls. He eventually adjusted. As his firstborn, I became his mission.

To the bewilderment of anyone familiar with international law, Donald Trump continues to indulge his fixation on Iraq’s oil—and America’s supposed right to seize it.

The President’s foreign-policy mistakes, large and small, are taking a toll.

Trump took credit for the release, with thanks to the Swiss government, yet other interlocutors claim that the Administration usurped the narrative after almost three years of lethargic diplomacy.

The disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has put pressure on the President, who has long had personal business ties with the Saudis and made the oil-rich kingdom central to his...

The invitation was extended just weeks before the Administration placed sanctions on Mohammad Javad Zarif for functioning “as a propaganda minister, not a foreign minister.”

Mohammed bin Salman got off scot-free. But experts say that the trial’s conclusion has not ended the controversy for the Saudi crown prince.

The latest escalation between the United States and Iran is of a pattern with many of the Islamic Republic’s confrontations with regional and international adversaries since the 1979 revolution.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman—the autocratic royal most widely implicated, directly or indirectly, in Khashoggi’s disappearance—will play a role in the investigation.

A video released by the caliphate on Monday was clearly designed to prove that neither he nor ISIS has been obliterated, a month after losing their last piece of territory.

The Biden Administration faces a potential confrontation with a longtime rival that is better armed and more hard-line than at any time in its modern history.

Citizens of more than eighty nations have joined ISIS. After five years of conflict, few of their governments have stepped up to take them back.

The Iranian-American marine who flew combat missions in Afghanistan is now one of NASA’s newest astronauts.

This year’s demonstrations speak to a need for a new social contract—one that goes beyond traditional political reforms or who sits at the top.

Recent tensions between the two countries have the Iranian Foreign Minister comparing diplomacy with the U.S. to an Adam Sandler movie.

The city’s fall marks the biggest victory for the Assad regime in nearly six years of catastrophic civil war.

The world’s most volatile region faces a challenge that doesn’t involve guns, militias, or bloodshed, yet is also destroying societies.

Women are still defying and dying in an uprising that is historically unique for being centered on women’s freedom.

My dad often told us that he assumed that he would have sons, but he ended up with girls. He eventually adjusted. As his firstborn, I became his mission.

At 2:52 P.M., according to a Turkish surveillance video, a reported Saudi intelligence agent walked out of the consulate’s back door dressed in the dissident journalist’s clothes—except for the shoes.

How a team of eight artists and a band of ad-hoc volunteers joined to create a mural that has since landed on front pages across the world and been photographed from space.

Court rulings won’t change the xenophobic public opinion that has produced such bans in the first place.

The President’s decision to challenge the 2015 Iran nuclear deal comes at a broader geostrategic price: a growing alliance between Moscow and Tehran.

The Iranian-American marine who flew combat missions in Afghanistan is now one of NASA’s newest astronauts.

Experts estimate a thirty-five-per-cent chance of a U.S. civil war over the next ten to fifteen years. What do historians of the Civil War think?

Ahead of the U.S. Open, the tennis superstar struggles to make a comeback from yet another injury.

The move by emboldened Republicans on the eve of a new Congress would strip power and independence from an investigative body and give lawmakers control over ethics inquiries.

A “pernicious” plan to abduct a dissident in Brooklyn is only the latest intelligence scheme to silence dissent and target Americans.

Though Baghdadi’s death does not end the threat of the Islamic State, experts called it a major advance in the decades-long campaign against jihadi extremism.

Trump’s assault on the nuclear deal has sweeping implications far beyond Iran.

The protests over the killing of George Floyd have made our institutional crisis all the more visible and worrisome, even to career military officers long experienced in dealing with instability.

Through all her personal challenges, she loved us—ferociously.

“The last war is yet to be finished, and we’re talking about starting a new war? It’s just madness,” Barham Salih, the Iraqi President, says.

Some form of conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic, overt or covert, seems more possible now than at any time since the 1979 Revolution.