Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s trip to Moscow – where he is discussing among other things a multi-billion dollar arms sale – is being read as evidence that Egypt is actively seeking to bolster its relations with Russia. Foreign policy analysts had worried for months that U.S. snubs were...

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Among the many reasons that normally circumspect analysts harshly criticized the Obama administration’s moves to cut off assistance to Egypt’s army-backed government – the importance of bilateral military ties, the need to support Egyptian counter-terror efforts, etc. – one persistent theme involved the worry that Russia would gladly fill in...

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Much has been made in recent weeks regarding efforts to academically boycott Israeli institutions. Two particular campaigns – those mobilized by the American Studies Association and Modern Language Association – have received particular attention. The ASA passed a pro-boycott resolution and was forced to almost immediately scramble to backtrack, though...

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European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced Friday that nuclear talks between the P5+1 global powers and Iran will begin February 18th in Vienna. “We have agreed that we will start the talks on February 18 at the U.N. building in Vienna,” Ashton said after what she described as a “really interesting” meeting with...

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Analysts are expressing increasingly pointed concerns that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif may lack either the ability or the willingness to help secure a comprehensive deal between Iran and the West that would put Tehran’s nuclear program verifiably beyond use for weaponization, with his recently published memoirs and multiple recent...

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American voters from across both political parties and all demographics believe that Congress must have a voice in any final agreement with Iran, favor Congressional legislation that would impose new financial pressure on Tehran, and prefer almost virtually any scenario – including targeted military strikes – to allowing the Islamic...

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The U.S.-Egypt relationship is in danger of further deterioration, with a diplomatic snub last week having revived Egyptian frustrations that first crystallized when the Obama administration last fall took the widely criticized and now functionally reversed decision to partially halt military aid to Cairo.Washington’s broadside was made in response to the army’s July removal...

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The BBC yesterday provided an overview of today’s Geneva 2 opening session – being held in Montreux, Switzerland, with the aim of dampening the violence in Syria’s almost three-year war – describing “extraordinarily ill-tempered scenes and some very direct language.” At a fractious evening news conference, during which there were repeated calls...

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New House legislation proposed by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee would make $400 million in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) contingent upon the President certifying that the PA among other things “no longer engages in a pattern of incitement against the United States or Israel.” Rep....

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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer blasted the White House on Tuesday for accusing U.S. lawmakers who favor pressuring Iran of seeking to drag America into a war. “There have been some that have suggested in the White House that those folks were more interested in war than they were in the resolution...

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