The Pacific is self-evidently consequential to U.S. foreign policy and international relations as a whole, but CFR President Richard Haass j...

Last Saturday the Arab League finally appeared to respond to Syria’s pro-democracy movement, which had just concluded its “Friday of Freezin...

Nearly one month has elapsed since Nairobi launched Operation Linda Nchi, and Kenyan troops haven’t drastically improved their positions fro...

U.S. officials are skilled at softening their condemnation of ‘“friendly” regimes, and the Voice of America’s new editorial on Yemen provid...

Is Nairobi merely desperate or eager to parade a powerful ally? After weeks of consultations with foreign officials and few immediate result...

Two weeks ago a large explosion rocked the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) humanitarian camp in Jilib, located in the watershed of Somalia’s...

In the race to be viewed as America’s “toughest” defender of U.S. interests abroad, GOP candidates are tripping over their tongues for Repub...

In what has become its own weekend tradition in Yemen, Vice President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi issued his latest defense of Ali Abdullah Sal...

"The Republican Guard forces are in a state of high readiness and vigilance to defend the country against subversive armed elements of ...

By Abdullah Al-Arian , published by Al Jazeera : Obama's "During the past few months, Barack Obama has come under increasing press...

Faced with the reality that Ali Abdullah Saleh and Yemen’s revolutionaries are equally unwilling to stand down, Western officials turned to ...

A small collection of fears dominated the policy discussion inside and outside of Libya when the Obama administration green-lit NATO’s “Oper...

Different time, different place, same propaganda. Holding Washington’s elite network of universities and think tanks in her palm, America’s ...

Since its opening salvo Operation Linda Nchi never had the look of a brief incursion. Although General Julius Karangi, Kenya’s Chief of the ...

The counter-revolution draws its energy from many fears, primarily the loss of Western/Gulf interests and the rise of Islamic radicalism in ...