In Washington, the National Security Council is said to be preparing a “presidential finding”, an executive order authorising covert action, as a policy option, but it is not clear whether President Barack Obama would take the risky step of signing it.

Arab and western governments scrabbling to find strategies to deal with the crisis in Syria are considering ways to strengthen opposition to the president, Bashar al-Assad, including supporting the Free Syrian Army. The Russian and Chinese vetoes of a UN

A recent Gallup poll shows that 81 percent of Americans want the President to be focused on domestic issues, while 9 percent say they want him to focus on foreign policy issues. Not too surprising ... until you consider that the fastest growing domestic

Netanyahu has a long record of doing things his way: if he decides he has to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, he will. F

By now, I’m sure most readers of this blog are informed about Mark Perry’s blockbuster story Friday on foreignpolilcy.com that describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as U.S. spies to recruit and use members of the Jundallah group to carry out what the

We all know how this story ends -- at a villa in Pakistan, in the early morning hours of May 2, 2011. What we don't know is how it started, how it was planned and, despite some tantalizing tidbits in news reports, how it was executed. And, frankly, it's