Navigating between Putin and the mullahs.

Iranian influence and sectarian fragmentation.

Changing the demographics is part of a plan to create a Shiite crescent.

More an army of mercenaries than of fanatics.

Learning the lessons of the Iraq war.

Extremists thrive on turmoil.

Looming: a nuclear showdown between Iran and Pakistan.

He was “remarkably comfortable with American Jews.”

A historical perspective.

A retired IDF general recounts his experience in the Indian city of Lucknow.

The deeply intertwined histories of Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism.

The tide against him may finally be turning.

50 years ago, in a different Yemenite civil war . . .

It’s established de-facto control over much of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.