In a stinging public rebuke, a trio of leading foreign policy officials for the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations — including two who served as key Obama White House officials overseeing U.S. policy on Iran — have leveled an unusually blunt assessment of recent U.S. foreign policy setbacks related to the Islamic Republic, charging that...

Saudi Arabia’s new monarch, King Salman, pledged to continue the policies of his predecessor and half-brother Abdullah, who died yesterday. Reuters reports: Salman, thought to be 79, takes over as the ultimate authority in a country that faces long-term domestic challenges compounded by the plunging price of oil in recent...

The government of Argentina announced today that “rogue” intelligence agents are suspected in the death of state prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who before his death had formally accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of sabotaging an investigation into Iran’s role in a deadly terror attack. Reuters reports: Argentina suspects rogue agents from its own...

Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his government resigned Thursday in the face of attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The Washington Post reports: Yemen’s Western-backed president and his cabinet resigned Thursday amid deepening turmoil that left Shiite rebels in effective control and threw into question this nation’s continued participation...

A pragmatic Sunni alliance in the Middle East is getting stronger as ties between two regional powers—Egypt and Saudi Arabia—have grown even stronger in recent weeks. The possible rapprochement of Qatar to this alliance represents a potentially significant boost to efforts to prevent Iran from achieving hegemony in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Egypt share...

In her column today, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin described “a quiet diplomatic war behind the scenes” as a political divide grows between the Obama administration on one side, and Congressional leadership and America’s Middle East allies, including Israel, on the other. Rubin identified three recent episodes as highlighting this divide. First was President Barack...