You had the president of Ukraine who, whatever his flaws, was representing a democracy—a struggling ... No, that didn’t save many lives in Iraq. But in diplomacy, it counts for something.

Turkish intelligence officers met with Mr. Ocalan in prison to map out a plan for his fighters to disarm, and Kurdish politicians ferried messages between him and his associates in northern Iraq.

The think tank’s recently released “surge” plan report, “Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq,” had caught fire, and the captions beneath a series of maps in the report ... had not been a ...

The straight lines on maps which delineate states in Africa and Asia are products ... Another British politician, Churchill, dictated the boundaries of Iraq and consigned the Kurds to a political ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

Syria’s interim foreign minister said in Baghdad on Friday his government was ready to “reinforce cooperation” with Iraq in the fight ... by his crackdown on democracy protests.

I believe that most Americans have abandoned democracy because democracy has abandoned ... led to a calamitous invasion in 2003 of Iraq that disfigured a sovereign country and killed countless ...

The killing comes as the group has been reconstituting in Syria, carrying out more attacks than at any time since it lost ...

But for those looking for some glimmer of hope, it’s also true that it’s likely too early to be so pessimistic about the prospect of American democracy’s survival. There are clear signs that ...

Plus, how the courts, Congress, and ordinary citizens might course-correct American democracy. Julius Caesar pressured the Senate, won popular support by fomenting class warfare, and sported a ...