Middle East

Since 2003 when Operation Iraqi Freedom began, Iraq lurched from crisis to crisis.  The nation-building experiment has left a political vacuum despite the so-called democratic ……Read More

The recent news that President Obama has sent a "secret letter" to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini, a reformist, about assisting in the fight ……Read More

Iran has long-term plans to sell natural gas to Europe, according to its deputy oil minister Ali Majedi. Speaking in March 2014, the deputy minister ……Read More

Among the arguments marshaled by those  wary of a nuclear agreement with Iran is that past efforts to negotiate away North Korea’s nuclear weapons program failed. Iran’s ……Read More

There have been a number of rounds of border skirmishes between Iran and Pakistan since the first week of October. However, reports that Pakistani forces ……Read More

There’s no trade without war; there’s no war without trade,” the famous quip by Jan Pieterzoon Coen, a leading officer of the Dutch East India ……Read More