Colin Powell spent the final years of his life haunted by his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations Security Council, claiming the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq justified ...

Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, explains the history of miscalculations that led to ...

As the U.S. continues its military operations against Iran, Trump administration officials are giving mixed messages on the ...

Years after leading opposition to the US war in Iraq, France’s Dominique de Villepin speaks out against another illegal war in the Middle East and Europe’s timid response. Cole Stangler Marseille—One ...

President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fueled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks becoming ensnared by that very type of conflict. The ...

In 1991 more than half a million Americans served in Operation Desert Storm; 148 were killed in action, to free Kuwait from ...

In response, Iran launched missiles at American bases throughout the Middle East and reportedly moved to halt shipping ...

With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to see that the pope was far more clear-eyed than the politicians who opted for war in Iraq and the Catholic thinkers who helped provide the war’s putative ...

President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran were decisive. His reasons for launching the war and definition of victory have been ...

President Trump’s decision to go to war against Iran exemplifies his smash-and-grab approach to governing: acting without apparently considering the lives to be lost, the law or the institutional ...

Then at 3:30 p.m., President Trump told Weijia Jiang of CBS that the war could be over soon: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much.” Oil prices promptly plunged and stocks shot up. You could ...