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The views of refugees in Jordan are shaped by their individual experiences of war and their collective expatriation from home. 

For Syrian refugees in Jordan’s Zaatari camp, arguments about international law ring hollow.

Why saying no to Syria matters (and it's not about Syria).

Kerry's rhetorical point may give Obama an option besides ill-advised airstrikes. 

President Obama was right to seek congressional approval to strike Syria—but a bipartisan coalition must turn him down.

August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.

There are some hopeful signs, including his recent speech at the National Defense University and a new, less hawkish foreign policy team.

Until the president defines what “associated forces” are, the current formulation leaves open the possibility of unlimited, unending use of military force anywhere in the world.

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.