[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…

[caption id="attachment_55234696" align="alignnone" width="620"] Fidel Castro in 1994[/caption]Fifty years ago this month, the world held its breath as it contemplated nuclear armageddon over the…

[caption id="attachment_55234653" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian soldier wearing a mask against chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein.[/caption]Iraq’s use of chemical weapons during its…

[caption id="attachment_55234500" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney[/caption]Opening his speech on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute,…