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Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani criticized his government's Middle East strategy on Thursday in comments published by ...
Weakened by war and diplomatic deadlock, Iran’s clerical elite stands at a crossroads: defy pressure to halt its nuclear ...
His deals are informed by hyper-transactional dealmaking.
A peace plan between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by Donald Trump calls for a US-backed transit corridor in the South ...
Israel had long planned an attack on Iran but delayed it until several factors aligned: Donald Trump’s election in the US, the conclusion of a 60-day period of nuclear negotiations, and specific ...
For Trump, brokering peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia — both now estranged from Moscow — offers a safer stage on which to cast himself as a global peacemaker than his efforts to end the war in ...
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s policy group on Thursday published a memo urging the Trump administration to deploy a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran in the wake of strikes on Iranian ...
Surge in air attacks and civilian casualties accompany avowed ‘peace through strength’ strategy as efficacy questioned.
Opinion

Trump and the art of war

Trump views alliances and diplomacy through a business and trade lens, but now he is more overtly pursuing transactional goals, be it trade benefits, security deals, or foreign policy influence. This ...
The U.S. president has revamped trade, aid and military force to an extent that attendees here say will have effects for ...