January 3, 2025: Many countries and international organizations have urged Israel and their Palestinian neighbors to make peace and establish an independent Palestinian state. None of these proposals ...

January 3, 2025: Since the 1980s Iran has spent nearly $20 billion to establish and maintain a presence in Syria and Lebanon. In the last few months of 2024 all that was lost, along with billions of ...

January 2, 2025: The Ukrainian Police Security Services, or SBU, have become more important since Russia invaded in 2022. This unit was created in 1991 after Ukraine emerged from the demise of the ...

January 1, 2025: At a high school in the northwestern city of Arkhangelsk, high school students have been using 3-D printers to produce grenade components for Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The ...

In January 2022, I wrote my first formal annual Strategic Challenges column -- a quick assessment of what I called "strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order." That column ...

December 30, 2024: Ukraine is using some unique tactics to defeat the Russian invaders. The most damaging tactic is that when Russian troops attack, they suffer substantial casualties as the ...

December 31, 2024: In Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, one of the enduring problems since the end of World War II in 1945 is the difficult and often rebellious tribes in the north. One of the more ...

Israeli air defenses destroy nearly all these rockets and missiles. The Lebanese government reported that that day of Israeli airstrikes had killed 558 people, most of them civilians. The Israeli ...