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Apr 21, 2026, 1:40 PM

The Soldier and The Fog of War: The Trial of Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier

On the morning of April 7, 2026, officers from the Australian Federal Police approached a man stepping off a domestic flight at Sydney Airport and placed him under arrest. The man was Ben Roberts-Smith. Holder of Australia’s highest military...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 21, 2026, 7:32 AM

Israel Keeps Golan as Syria Joins Abraham Accords

With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived for a full normalization with Syria too. This means diplomatic recognition, economic ties, and a strategic partnership under the Abraham...

Apr 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

You had twenty years to fix it. Get out of the way

I’m confused. All the couch Johnny-come-lately foreign policy experts are in an uproar and I can’t understand why. The Iran war two week ceasefire is supposedly upon us and these brilliant commentators are bellyaching that Israel is in violation...

Mar 27, 2026, 7:46 PM

Prudent See Danger: Dennis Coyle’s 421 Days in Taliban Hands Ends in Freedom

American Dennis Coyle, second from right, is accompanied by an unidentified person after being released by Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities, who had held him for over a year, before boarding a plane at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mudassir Safi)

Dennis Coyle stepped off the plane in Texas this week after 421 days in Taliban captivity. The 64-year-old Christian linguist from Pueblo, Colorado, had worked legally in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years developing language resources for local communities. Seized...

Mar 27, 2026, 8:39 AM

Life First: Faith, War, and Moral Clarity

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

War, Peace, and Life in Three Faiths If you look at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three traditions most often pulled into debate, you find something striking. At their core, all three begin from the same uncomfortable truth. The world...

Mohd Amirul Asraf bin Othman

Mar 18, 2026, 6:50 AM

Attack on Iran: Has the United States learned from Afghanistan and Iraq?

A veiled Iranian art student holds a country flag while standing on symbolic debris of a destroyed building as she performs in an anti-war conceptual play at a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Image

As bombs fall on Tehran and the Supreme Leader lies dead, Washington is once again mistaking the destruction of a regime for the creation of a new one. The disastrous legacies of Afghanistan and Iraq are repeating themselves -...

Mar 16, 2026, 7:50 PM

The Chaos Beyond

Israel, Iran, and the dangers of strategic collapse What should Israel fear more: the rule of an Iranian regime projecting force across the region, or the possibility that the regime may weaken so badly that order at the frontier dissolves?...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Mar 14, 2026, 11:56 AM

The Shadow War Is Over — Iran Must Finally Face Consequences

How long can Iran keep shooting missiles? How long can everyone else keep shooting them down?

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran waged a calculated war against Israel from the shadows. Rather than confronting the Jewish state directly, Tehran built a ring of fire around it. Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hamas and Palestinian...

Michael Arizanti

Feb 24, 2026, 10:25 AM

Ramadan Under Bombs: Pakistan’s Afghan Strikes Exposed

As I sit here in Europe, poring over reports from the rugged frontiers of South Asia, I can't help but feel a familiar surge of outrage. For decades, I've chronicled the plight of marginalized peoples — from the Kurds...

Vincent James Hooper

Jan 23, 2026, 7:10 PM

The Blood-Soaked Ground of Helmand: A Response to President Trump

President Trump has claimed that NATO troops in Afghanistan "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." He added: "We've never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them." These statements are not merely wrong....

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