A range of media outlets blasted the Obama administration on Thursday and Friday over the White House’s Middle East policy in the broadest sense, arguing that the increasingly chaotic region is in a downward spiral due, in part, to missteps by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team. The various conflicts engulfing...

Iran’s nuclear program is vulnerable to both military attack and economic pressure, Middle East expert Lee Smith argued in an essay that appears in the current issue of The Weekly Standard. While Smith acknowledged that “you can’t bomb knowledge,” or, in other words, make Iranian nuclear scientists forget their technical...

In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, the Senate unanimously passed a proposal put forward by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Thursday that would re-impose sanctions on Iran if Tehran was found to be in noncompliance with any nuclear agreement. The vote was 100-0. The nonbinding language is grounded in sections of the...

In Congressional testimony two weeks ago, retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn stated that the United States is “at war with violent and extreme Islamists (both Sunni and Shia) and we must accept and face this.” It is time to make a choice—push, before we are pushed. But the United...

Emergency relief teams from the Israeli relief agency IsraAID are bringing additional food, water, and other aid to starving citizens of the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, after it was ravaged by a category 5 cyclone earlier this month. The archipelago, which has a population of nearly 300,000 scattered over 65...

The Associated Press has reported that the United States is considering allowing Iran to continue to operate hundreds of centrifuges at Fordow, an underground nuclear complex outside of the city of Qom. The Iranians would reportedly be able to feed elements such as zinc, xenon, or germanium at the site, rather than...