For decades, the specter of a Third World War loomed large in my mind, fueled by youthful readings of Nostradamus’s ...

Overhanging the 1991 debate was the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which formed the base rationale for U.S. involvement in ...

A Greenock man who spent 40 years in the armed forces has lifted the lid on the decades of military service that have seen ...

Global energy markets, such as those for oil, gas and coal, tend to be sensitive to a wide range of world events -- ...

Iraq’s top court will resume work after nine judges returned following the retirement of its president. The Supreme Judicial ...

U.S. warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites in a dramatic escalation—just the latest in a long, bloody pattern. From proxy ...

Without a major change in the Iranian government, there remains a significant potential for future threats to oil supplies ...

AS THE debate plays out over the damage done to the Iranian nuclear programme by US and Israeli strikes, one reality is clear ...

After a half-century of cold war, the U.S. has bombed targets directly in Iran for the first time. But this is not the only ...

"The Iranian strike on the American base in Qatar demonstrated how beholden the Gulf Arabs are to the United States." ...

No, this column is not asserting that Colin Powell, who stands as one of the worst mistakes of the Bush Republican era, has any relevance. Quite the contrary, but what I will argue here is that one of ...

Proliferation Treaty or NPT. North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya were eventually all signatories to the 1969 agreement. They all to varying degrees trashed the treaty.   North Korea conned their ...