During his recentAl-MayadeenTV interview, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke for four hours in an attempt to address questions and concerns by the Lebanese people and Hezbollah’s constituency…

Upon winning the presidency,Joe Bidenpromised to lead “not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” That pledge is important, because today’s competition between democracies and…

President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy “to do” list only looking more difficult as he approaches inauguration day – even as the US faces new, substantive challenges, including COVID-19. After…

The world has entered an era of drone wars. In four major interstate wars in the last five years—those inLibya, Nagorno-Karabakh,Syria, and Ukraine—armed drones played a dominant, perhaps decisive,…

For more than a decade, right-wing Hindu groups inIndiahave conjured the specter of a “love jihad” among Muslim men: a campaign to court Hindu women with the intention of converting them to Islam…

In mid-November, the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff released a 74-page report arguing that China aims to fundamentally revise the world order in the service of its authoritarian goals and…

No new administration wants unexpected foreign crises to distract it from addressing its domestic priorities. Given the pressing need to manage the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the incoming…

Early last week, Iraqi officials announced that an airstrike had killed a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as he entered Syria from Iraq on November 29 with a consignment of…

Iranian dissident Ruhallah Zam – a journalist exiled in Paris – was kidnapped and assassinated by the Iranian regime earlier this month. Zam is known for his work that inspired much of the economic…

Raise human rights in meetings with senior Chinese government officials. Speak publicly and clearly about abuses instead of only to diplomats behind closed doors. Put the rights of China’s 1.4…