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The Republicans have their own version: ¿If a mistake was made in drawing national boundary lines in the Middle East after World War I without due regard for tribal groupings and religious differences, is it still President Obama¿s fault?¿

President Obama's decision to send military advisers to Iraq will do nothing to resolve the conflict there and may make matters worse.

Calls for American intervention in Iraq follow on a century of misreading the Middle East.

Only history will be able to judge whose foreign policy was worse, the reckless Bush or the feckless Obama.

A tangle of conflicting regional alliances and enmities has left the U.S. with few good options to prevent Iraq from falling apart

The president defended a measured view of how U.S. foreign policy should be conducted that we believe most Americans share

Some things are binary. They either are or they aren't. You can't be sort of pregnant or partially certifiable; it's one or the other — like being a Yankees or a Red Sox fan.

We are marking a solemn anniversary: three years since the beginning of the war in Syria. To many in the United States, this conflict can seem overwhelming or even hopeless, yet there are signs of hope among the despair.

At the end of January, a team of chemists and engineers left Aberdeen Proving Ground for the Mediterranean Sea to lead the historic destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. More than two months later, they're still waiting for the mission to start.

A team of civilian specialists from Aberdeen Proving Ground is heading this week to the Mediterranean Sea for what officials and others say is a historic mission to destroy Syria's chemical warfare stockpile – and one that could serve as a model in the drive to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.

Geneva peace talks should focus on aid to Syrian refugees

Based on original survey data from rebel-controlled territory in Syria, we find that civilians are war-weary and looking for a settlement to end the war, but rebel fighters appear entrenched in the belief that Syrian President Bashar al Assad must be defeated, no matter the costs. A major challenge for Geneva will be to convince rebel forces to forgo the pursuit of victory and vengeance against Mr. Assad's regime. Though rebels may balk at a peace deal, there is growing distance between those

The images showing Syria's chemical weapons casualties were significant both for what they did and did not show.

The violent civil war in Syria has put its population at acute risk for a large polio outbreak.