Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird has warned Iran that the Islamic republic only has two to three months to demonstrate to the West that it is committed to resolving the crisis surrounding its atomic program through negotiations, declaring that talks are “nearing the end.” Baird rejected suggestions, which have recently...

The State Department yesterday posted that Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne C. Richard will be in Amman through tomorrow meeting with government officials and humanitarian workers. Richard’s visit comes as the country’s refugee crisis – triggered by the war in neighboring Syria – threatens to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is emphasizing that Russia remains committed to honoring arms contracts with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, including a contract under which Russia will deliver S-300 missile defense systems to Damascus. Russia last month acknowledged it has agreed to sell Syria advanced S-300 air-defense missiles, which...

Members of Congress from both parties are calling on the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Technically the statement is a formal congratulations regarding the formal process initiated by the United Kingdom to blacklist the Iran-backed group. More pointedly, it’s a call to go through with the designation: “It...

The United Nations has been declining to publish a detailed report – one which has already been approved by the U.N. Security Council sanctions committee – detailing the degree to which Iran has been able to dodge existing sanctions. Somebody somewhere wanted the report to see the light of day,...

Efforts are being made to bolster the contingent of UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights,even as it is being scaled down in the shadow of deteriorating stability between on the Israeli-Syrian border. Fiji, a tiny chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, agreed to send it troops to strengthen the...