As the United States staggers toward war, it will try to draw troops from the same poor, rural neighborhoods it always has.

But beyond this week’s false headlines, Trump’s double-dealings and war threats have given Tehran every reason to develop a bomb.

The Soleimani assassination and its aftermath suggest that America's top diplomat is really the viceroy of its national security establishment.

Much of the party, including nearly all its presidential candidates, is still scared to categorically reject war.

The fatal strike against Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has destabilized the world, endangered Americans, and thrilled Republican war hawks.

Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.

His dim tweets and rash threats have pinned the U.S. in a corner with Tehran.

Lessons from a 2016 naval crisis that could have sunk the nuclear deal and opened a conflict, but didn’t.

As tensions rise, an unprecedented military briefing by a hawkish secretary of state throws the chain of command into doubt.

Jim Mattis was supposed to restrain Trump. He failed.

They've been capitulating to Trump for two years now. The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi isn't likely to change that.

The Israeli prime minister said the Iran deal "is based on lies.” Of course it is, says nuclear expert James Acton—but the U.S. knew that.

The appointment of John Bolton as national security adviser makes it a lot more likely.

How modern women navigate Iran’s theocracy

Some believe that the president is so divorced from actual governance that his statements have limited consequences. But that isn't the case.

Enabled by a craven Congress, the president is undermining the Iran deal and risking an escalation that he's incapable of halting.

His rambling, incoherent speech to the U.N. General Assembly was proof that the president only has one audience in mind—and it isn't a global one.