U.S. Policy

Why President Obama's second-term national security team can't shy away from getting involved in the world's difficult conflicts.

Today's Egypt -- with its first-ever civilian president, Islamist leader Muhammad Morsi -- is a very different country from the one with which successive U.S. administrations built a strategic partnership for more than thirty years. The fundamental changes seen there since 2011 mandate an equally fundamental reassessment of the bilateral

Don't believe the loose talk of President Obama exacting vengeance on Benjamin Netanyahu -- the two leaders need each other too much to let old grudges get in the way.

Amid talk of personnel shakeups and foreign policy retooling, a former Obama advisor suggests how the president should choose his top aides and cabinet secretaries.

Satloff: Obama Administration to Test Iran with 'Grand Deal'

Although Syria has long been a vexing policy issue for the United States, intervening after the election to help end the Assad regime should not be a difficult decision.

Neither candidate recommended a way to address the country's increasing radicalism and instability. How well do they really understand the problem?

Of the six segments in Monday night's presidential debate on foreign policy, two will be focused on the Middle East. Robert Satloff poses a dozen questions for consideration.

As Iran makes continued progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, defining our red lines takes on increasing importance.