Foreign Policy In Focus

As they go to the polls, ordinary Iranians understand that one of the most salient facts of life in Iran--the international sanctions regime--will not be on the ballot.

Iraq's Kurds may at last have their own state. But is it the one they wanted?

Jeremy Scahill's 'Dirty Wars' conveys the sinister, unaccountable, and deadly power concentrated in the halls of Washington that now threatens the planet.

Why start another body count in a Middle East conflict with no direct relationship to U.S. security?

The United States needs to halt its assistance to Bahrain until the country implements promised democratic reforms.

Iraqi demonstrators are now taking matters into their own hands.