Modern wars show how easily leaders meet rhetorical burden of justification and avoid strategic burden of ending them.

In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR's podcast "Throughline," explains how.

Israel’s current genocide in Gaza and recently announced plans to occupy Gaza City are both part of a long and tortured history of Israeli military occupations of the tiny strip. Whenever we imagine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Has the world's most volatile region been transformed? We may know the answer in short order. President Trump's 20-point plan for ...

It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and ...

Unhae Langis needs a history lesson as her Aug. 14 Guest Commentary is filled with historical errors and deliberate distortions. In 1947 the United Nations voted to divide the British Mandate of ...