US conflict go back to a 1953 CIA-backed coup, oil politics and the 1979 Islamic Revolution that transformed allies into bitter geopolitical rivals.

World / Nepal’s “Gen Z revolution” achieved historic and unexpected electoral success—but transformational change remains elusive. Wen Stephenson Kathmandu—Last week, on the afternoon before Nepal’s ...

As the Iran war expands, the roots of many West Asia conflicts lie in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the European agreements that redrew the region's borders after World War I.

A week into the Iran campaign with Israel, the United States’ goal seems to be destruction of Iran’s leadership and military ...

What the defeat of the Lapua Movement in the 1940s can teach the US today.

Archival records reveal that the 1971 global ban on psychedelics was fueled by Cold War politics and media sensationalism, not medical science. This historical analysis suggests international drug ...

Rarely in modern times has the United States prepared to conduct a major act of war with so little explanation or public debate. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger has covered the Iranian nuclear ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has ruled out talking, sending a clear message that the remaining leadership in Iran is prepared to fight, rather than take instructions from Washington.

The evolution of modern warfare has never looked deadlier. Unmanned drones have turned beautiful skyscrapers into potential ...

Right now, President Trump and Republican lawmakers are backing a new voting reform act that could further complicate the (already complicated) voting process. Earlier this month, the House of ...

From a distance, Vicki Weaver looked like an angel. One indistinct photograph is all most of us have ever seen of her, and in that image, taken by FBI surveillance, her face is as white as her long ...

The late Colombian artist was known as a political firebrand but was never didactic as this London retrospective of her ...