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A decade ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, went down over a portion of eastern Ukraine controlled by...
A year ago, the online publication Task & Purpose counted at least seven Russian generals killed during the war in Ukraine. In Western countries,...
Mass hysteria is a recurring feature of American life. In 1938, it was about an alien invasion — sparked by Orson Welles’s radio drama “The War...
The historian’s occupational hazard is giving the impression that what happened must have happened, that the march of events was inevitably leading...
The Syrian civil war began in 2011 and never really ended. The fighting has claimed about half a million lives and forcibly displaced more than...
The cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel is being touted by right-wing admirers of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as...
During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised, as one of his first orders of business, to end the war in Ukraine. “I will get that...
Israel-Iran hostilities. North Korean troops getting ready to fight Ukraine. Chinese military exercises around Taiwan. Suspected Russian sabotage...
Having killed two of its leading enemies — Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah’s Hasan Nasrallah — Israel is expanding its military ambitions in the...
American voters tend be pretty parochial in their approach to elections, focusing on domestic issues above all. I’m not sure if enough of them are...
Little more than a year ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel suffered arguably the second-biggest intelligence and military failure in its history (after...
If you want to see how nations can stumble into wars without end, the ongoing (and rapidly escalating) conflict between Israel and Hezbollah...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting the United States this week — culminating in a Thursday meeting at the White House with...
When Republicans strategize about how to deal with China today, many of them point to President Ronald Reagan’s confrontational approach toward the...
The decision by French authorities to arrest Pavel Durov, the billionaire, Russian-born founder of the Telegram social media app, has sent his...
Adapted from “Reagan: His Life and Legend” by Max Boot. Copyright (©) 2024 by Max Boot. Used with permission of the publisher, Liveright Publishing...
Russia, stunned by the incursion, has been slow to respond, while Ukraine gains battlefield maneuverability. A Ukrainian serviceman patrols in the...
The long record of U.S. futility is a reminder of the limitations of American power. President Nicolás Maduro attends a ceremony in Caracas on...