Sanctions

There is absolutely no question that the international community must move towards investing in Burma -- but they must do so in a way that upholds the human rights of its people.

While Congress fights over tax policy and the budget, it should take a moment to fix its sanctions legislation and return the power to make peace back to the president.

The international community must do everything in its power to reverse the coup d'état in Mali for the sake of the Malian people, for the future of democracy in West Africa and to strengthen the global norm against recognizing governments arising from military coups against democratic regimes.

It is no secret that Iran is developing its nuclear capacity in a clandestine and deceptive manner. Yet ironically it is our reaction to Iranian intransigence that is more likely to lead to an Iranian bomb. And it's not for the reasons that many have cited.

Secretary Clinton wants to give diplomacy time to work. But three years have already been wasted in merry-go-round diplomacy. These are three years the locusts have eaten. All the while, the mullahs have been building, hiding, advancing their nuclear weapons program.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama addressed the largest pro-Israel policy conference Sunday morning in a speech that offered tough words for Iran b...

Geographically, Iran may be far away from the Americas but its growing presence in Venezuela is a serious danger. It is not a joke.

With the winds of Israel-Iran war looming, albeit thus far primarily in the media, many observers speculate whether Israel will launch an attack on Iranian nuclear installations.

These questions are not only being raised by the international community but by ordinary Iranians as well.

Sanctioning Assad was not a humanitarian decision, but one motivated by calculated self-interest on the part of the Arab governments.

President Obama and Secretary Clinton have consistently failed to take strong measures that might actually impede Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir's attacks on the people of Sudan.

The question remains whether the Arab League will make the call to attack Syria with Arab states' armies. Will NATO, with or without US forces jump on the wagon to vicariously defeat Iran by causing a regime change in Syria, Iran's ally in the region?

Will the world be safe with messianic Ahmadinejad's fingers on the nuclear trigger while his other hand controls the spigots of 30% of the world's oil supply? Will reason direct his actions or will his messianic doomsday beliefs prevail?

Since spring, a wind of change has been blowing through the Arab world. Last week it again reached the shores of Turtle Bay. But this time it turned into a sudden chill.

What about leaders acting for the "national interest" or "the will of the people"? Hogwash, say the authors: leaders only follow the will of the people if their political survival depends on it. Did Thein Sein's political survival depend on his decision to suspend the Mytisone dam project?

When the United States gets its diplomatic claws around a country's throat, does it mean the beginning of the end? It seems to have worked in Libya and elsewhere but Syria is not Libya.

After months of stepping gingerly around calls that he firmly renounce the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad, President Obama today joined other w...

It is more important than ever for Americans, particularly Americans of Iranian descent, to evaluate the unintended impact the Iran sanctions coming out of Congress are having here in the U.S.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama ordered stiffer U.S. sanctions on Friday for top Syrian officials and security forces. The Syrian regime is respo...