The Iranian regime is certainly brutal. But it’s also powerful as it continues to project its might after a month of illegal air strikes by the United States and Israel. Iran is in the top 10 per cent ...

“Never, never, never,” Winston Churchill wrote in “My Early Life,” “believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he ...

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. “In a matter of weeks, the Iran war has generated massive uncertainty about ...

President Donald Trump likes his military campaigns short and victorious. The quick overnight strike that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power is his preferred model of warmaking. But the U.S ...

As Niccolò Machiavelli pointed out five centuries ago, “Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” Donald Trump is about to learn that they do not end when he feels like it, ...

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that while U.S. forces have “decimated” Iran’s military infrastructure, he is not yet prepared to declare a formal victory. “There’s no reason to,” ...

After two weeks of war against Iran, President Donald Trump may soon be ready to declare victory. But he confronts a challenge: Tehran also gets a vote. With most of Iran’s navy eliminated, much of ...

White House artificial-intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks called for an end to the war in Iran, even as the Trump administration continues to escalate the conflict. “We should try to find the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. If you’re looking for the most elegant way to wrap up our “little excursion” in Iran, it’s this: President Trump ...

Despite the scale of its military assault on Iran, the Trump administration’s reasons for entering into war have been inconsistent and vague, from regime change to the destruction of nuclear weapons, ...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday that the U.S. military operation in Iran has achieved all of President Donald Trump’s goals, claiming the time had come to “declare ...

President Donald Trump before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Feb. 27. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images) Nine hundred years ago, the Iranian philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali ...