Trump struggles to balance looking tough on Iran with reticence to involve U.S. in conflicts abroad By Anne Gearan President Trump considered military strikes against Iran and then called them off at close to the last minute Thursday evening —…

Trump says he aborted retaliatory strike to spare Iranian lives Jeff Mason, Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran’s downing of an unmanned U.S. drone because…

The March 31 local election in Turkey was a bombshell: Contrary to expectations, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost not only the capital Ankara, but the country’s biggest metropolis, Istanbul, where Erdoğan himself rose to prominence…

Lebanon is a complicated country historically riven by sectarian strife, serial economic mismanagement, and now a political system increasingly dictated by Hezbollah, Iran’s premier terrorist proxy. Yet American policymakers tend to view these as separate problems, which complicates efforts to…