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Daniel DepetrisThe Daily Caller |
For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his troops on the front line, relief is hopefully coming soon. On Saturday, the U.S. House of...
Of all the retaliatory options against Israel that Iran had on its table, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei chose the most bombastic: a...
When Israel began striking back against Hamas in Gaza a mere hours after 3,000 terrorists stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, most people believed...
In less than two weeks, President Joe Biden will greet Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in...
The United Nations Security Council, the U.N.’s most important body, is responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security. If...
It wasn’t long ago when French President Emmanuel Macron fancied himself as Europe’s Vladimir Putin whisperer — somebody who could call up the...
Incessant, round-the-clock violence. An impending famine. Mass displacement. A near total absence of state authority. Hundreds of thousands of...
Every U.S. president comes into office with big dreams, only to be bludgeoned by the realities of international politics. At the end of the day,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in an unenviable position. Having been caught flat-footed by the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s...
Compared with the last two years, the last several days have been like a vacation for Russian President Vladimir Putin. His nemesis, Ukrainian...
Until this weekend, the roughly 45,000 U.S. troops based in the Middle East were able to insulate themselves from the chaos of the region. Granted,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a man with a significant amount of pressure on his shoulders. The 3 ½-month-long war against Hamas in...
President Joe Biden’s decision on Thursday to order a wave of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen was inevitable the moment the Yemeni militia...
President Joe Biden’s administration has spent the last three months trying to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading to other regions in the Middle...
Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. While we already have made advancements in Illinois...
There is only so much a single person can do to control the events around them. Joe Biden is learning in real time that one of life’s golden rules...
A decade ago, the Houthis were a ragtag group of fighters based in the north of Yemen that most people hadn’t even heard of. Today, the...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is traveling to the Middle East this week in part to press Israel to moderate its war plans in Gaza and prepare for a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin skipped his traditional, long-winded annual press conference last year — for good reason. Despite the sweet...
Six days after 9/11, President George W. Bush gathered with his cabinet for a meeting on how the United States planned to respond to the worst...
The sailors aboard the USS Carney, based in the Red Sea, had a busy weekend — one that could have just as easily turned deadly were it not for the...
Regrettably for the people of Gaza, it was always a matter of when, not if, the war would resume. On Friday, that time arrived as Israeli aircraft...
My friend Gail and I visit Cantigny Park in Winfield each season; it is a lovely park with a First Division museum, a tank park that includes tanks...
Last week, I questioned whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas would be able to hammer out a short-term truce that would include...
Talking with your enemy during wartime is one of the most psychologically stressful things for a combatant to do. Haggling with the same people trying...
In addition to ensuring Israel has what it needs to crush Hamas as well as seeking to alleviate the dire humanitarian catastrophe for Palestinians in...
Will there be a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip? For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, the answer is a quick and emphatic...
Last August, more than two months after Ukraine began its counteroffensive against Russian positions in the east, U.S. national security adviser Jake...
With all eyes on Gaza, a series of meetings in Washington between senior U.S. and Chinese officials late last week was slightly overlooked by the news...
In the overnight hours on Thursday, two United States F-16 fighter jets dropped their payloads on two locations in Eastern Syria. The targets: an...
As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its third week, President Joe Biden is walking a tightrope and trying to accomplish three objectives...
More than a week after the deadliest attack inside Israel in 50 years, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing for their largest and most...
Although Syria may technically be a state, it’s not exactly sovereign. And although President Bashar Assad has managed to pummel, starve, isolate,...
It was the worst attack on the state of Israel in 50 years. About 1,000 terrorists affiliated with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad sneaked...
I just read Jordan Marsh’s op-ed (“Does ‘back the blue’ mean defending any police action?” Sept. 28). To answer his question: No. “Back...
After weeks of finger-pointing, rhetorical gamesmanship and intra-GOP high jinks, Congress managed to avoid a federal government shutdown over the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s multiday trip to Washington, D.C., last week, during which he held meetings on Capitol Hill, the White...
As perverse as it may sound, state-sponsored assassinations overseas are nothing new in the dirty world of international relations. Israel has...
Whether it's managing an increasingly tense relationship with China or trying to sustain Western military support for Ukraine, the U.S. has its hands...
Every September, world leaders converge on United Nations headquarters in Manhattan for a series of meetings on topics ranging from socioeconomic...
Ukraine’s counteroffensive, soon to enter its fourth month, is at best making marginal gains along the 1,000-mile front line. Russia’s network of...
If you were to tell an American in 1973 that there would come a time when a future U.S. president was warmly greeted in Hanoi, he or she might have...