All political parties agreed on an “election as soon as possible.” Thus, today there is a Turkish Cyprus that is going to elections instead of uncertainty, indecisiveness, and confusion of yesterday. It is now perhaps the time to wish that the early elections produce a strong government.

With Sanctioning Zarif, chance was lost for exploring whether the JCPOA could lead to serious negotiations on other matters of concern to outsiders.

Trump understands the world in terms of three types of leaders. There are the autocrats he like. There are the autocrats he doesn’t like. And then there are all the rest: the democrats he doesn’t respect.

As recently as February, when some Washington firms had dropped the Saudis as clients because of popular and congressional outrage over the Khashoggi murder, the Saudis were reportedly negotiating with Vice Media for joint production of documentaries celebrating social modernization in the conservative kingdom under the leadership of MbS.

The recent Warsaw Conference on the Middle East was notable for America’s inability to rally European governments to the anti-Iranian cause that the Trump administration, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have been strongly pushing. This U.S. failure in Warsaw stands in stark contrast to the February 14 summit meeting in Sochi between ...

Separate from the Mueller inquiry, the southern district of New York’s pursuit of the inauguration committee could herald more pain for the president