The Middle East is teetering on the edge of a dangerous escalation, as efforts to defuse regional tensions hit a formidable wall. Disagreements between Washington and Tehran have stalled highly...
WASHINGTON — For decades, the American military presence in the Persian Gulf was an immutable law of global geopolitics. Aircraft carriers patrolled the Strait of Hormuz, forward operating bases dotted...
TEHRAN — For four decades, a specific script dominated the Western imagination regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was a narrative of a fragile, teetering regime, an isolated state...
A decade of strategic inertia in Washington has finally collided with the uncompromising reality of the Persian Gulf. For months, the consensus within the Beltway has been one of managed...
For ordinary Russians of a certain generation, the sudden unspooling of everyday life has a hauntingly familiar rhythm. In 1991, citizens watched in disbelief as a superpower that had cast...
MOSCOW — For more than two years, the war in Ukraine was a distant conflict for the residents of Moscow, a series of heavily curated reports broadcast on state television...
KALININGRAD — For decades, this rain-swept enclave wedged tightly between Poland and Lithuania was designed to be Vladimir V. Putin’s ultimate geopolitical sledgehammer. Bristling with nuclear-capable Iskander missiles, ringed by...
SEVASTOPOL — Under the corrugated steel roof of a military hangar deep inside occupied Crimea, one of the crown jewels of the Russian Air Force sat idling. The Sukhoi Su-30SM,...
A wave of unverified reports and rapidly circulating social media footage has sparked international concern after claims emerged that a Russian airport was left in “chaos” and described by online...
LONDON — It began not with a shout, but with the rhythmic, mundane thud of knuckles against a wooden front door on a damp Saturday afternoon. To the casual observer, the...