[caption id="attachment_55235300" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Army soldiers operating under the NATO-sponsored International Security Assistance Force patrol along a dirt road in Kandahar…

[caption id="attachment_55235078" align="alignnone" width="594"] Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands after the final presidential debate.[/caption]The final debate between America’s two…

[caption id="attachment_55235061" align="alignnone" width="620"] Rebels from the Free Syrian Army take a break from combat[/caption]Journalist Stephen Starr lived and worked in Damascus between 2007…

[caption id="attachment_55234924" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saddam Hussein on trial in 2006[/caption]It has been almost six years since the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was swiftly sentenced…

[caption id="attachment_55234917" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk[/caption]Cumhuriyet [djoom-hoo-ree-YET] n. Republic Monday, 29 October was a national holiday in Turkey, the…

[caption id="attachment_55234881" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama[/caption]At the end of his first term, President Obama’s public foreign policy in the Middle East has…

[caption id="attachment_55234829" align="alignnone" width="600"] Bruce Reidel[/caption] Bruce Riedel has served in the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House and has advised four…

[caption id="attachment_55234804" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Memorandum from the US National Security Council regarding a briefing for President Clinton on US–Iranian relations. SOURCE: George…

[caption id="attachment_55234774" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and US President Barack Obama. (credit: Vanderlei Almeida and Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55234725" align="alignnone" width="620"] France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the Senegalese National Assembly in Dakar[/caption] No, I’m not referring to…