As Washington once again attempts diplomacy with Tehran amid an expanded US naval and air posture, the United States faces a familiar risk: defining success too narrowly. Past efforts to manage the Iran challenge have understandably focused on Iran’s nuclear program while treating regional…

The United States is returning to negotiations with Iran for the worst possible reason. Talking has become U.S. President Donald Trump’s Plan B, now that he realizes American forces are not “locked and loaded” with credible options to damage Iran’s…

As the Trump administration weighs strikes on Iran following the regime’s brutal killing of protestors, it must reckon with a hard lesson from last June: in just 12 days of Israel–Iran fighting, U.S. and Israeli munitions fell to dangerously low…

“The Syrian Democratic Forces’ [SDF] insistence on protecting what it has at all costs is the biggest obstacle to achieving peace and stability in Syria.” That’s what Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early January, blaming Syria’s Kurdish-led SDF…