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The assassins were professionals and they had planned carefully. On Aug. 7, 2020, around 9 o'clock on a warm evening, they rode a motorcycle down a street in Pasdaran, a [...]

In the days leading up to Christmas, I immersed myself in 'The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924.' The authors of this recently published, extensively researched, 500-page [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May A colleague and I were waiting for an airplane at Ben-Gurion Airport just outside Tel Aviv a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, sirens sounded. We quickly, [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May AMMAN, Jordan | The terrorist army formerly known as ISIS has conquered about a third of Syria and much of western Iraq. What are these jihadists [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May 'America cannot do a damn thing.' A banner displaying that slogan adorned the stage of an elegant mausoleum in Tehran where Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May Iran's rulers brutalize their own citizens, sponsor terrorism on several continents, and openly vow 'death to America.' They are determined to acquire the ability to develop [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May 'A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' is how Winston Churchill famously described Russia in 1939. Churchill less famously added: 'But perhaps there is [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May TAMARINDO, Costa Rica -- I'm not about to pretend that spending a few days in this rather funky little surfing village on the Pacific has given [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May Almost a hundred years ago, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the last in a succession of Islamic caliphates stretching back more than a millennium, transformed [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May Sending armed troops into a foreign country for the purpose of seizing territory is an act of war, and a line not often crossed in recent [...]

'Democracy is difficult--perhaps the most difficult to operate and preserve of all known forms of government.' Bernard Lewis, the late, great scholar and historian, offered that observation more than a [...]

Perhaps former President Obama deserves that Nobel Peace Prize after all. His achievement: bringing Israelis and Arabs closer together. He produced that result by throwing both under the bus. While [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy. The government he backed in Ukraine has collapsed. The Ukrainian leader he favored, Viktor Yanukovych is on the run, [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May First, we need to be clear: No one is arguing for imposing new sanctions now. What a majority in Congress, Democrats and Republican alike, favor instead [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May The intentions of Iran's rulers could not be clearer. They have repeatedly threatened and incited genocide. Most recently, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel 'a cancerous [...]

Byline: CLIFFORD D. MAY Almost a year ago, New York Times correspondent David Rohde was abducted by the Taliban. I was in Afghanistan at the time and, like many Westerners […]

Soon after taking office, President Trump ordered his national security advisers to provide 'a complete strategic review of our policy toward the rogue regime in Iran'. Last month, based on [...]

Soon after taking office, President Trump ordered his national security advisers to provide 'a complete strategic review of our policy toward the rogue regime in Iran.' Last month, based on [...]

Eleven years ago, Henry Kissinger famously said that Iran's rulers must 'decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation.' If the latter, Iranian and American interests would be [...]

Sometimes international law is ambiguous. Sometimes not. When it comes to murdering civilians and using chemical weapons to get the job done, there are no gray areas, no fuzzy lines, [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May Granted, Iraq's government has disappointed. Americans liberated Iraqis from Saddam Hussein and gave them the right to vote. What we couldn't give them are the institutions, [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May In January, Gen. David Petraeus was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the top American commander in Iraq. He and his troops are now on the [...]

Byline: Andrew C. McCarthy and Clifford D. May Opponents of President Bush's plan for salvaging the dire situation in Iraq have every right to speak out. And those in Congress [...]

Byline: CLIFFORD D. MAY Hamas may not have funds to pay the salaries of civil servants and improve social services for Palestinians. But resources to fund its propaganda efforts? Not […]

UNTIL THIS week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman was the most prominent representative of the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic Party. Now, that wing is down to its last few feathers. [...]

Byline: CLIFFORD D. MAY Start with what's best for Lebanon. For years, Lebanon was occupied by Syria for the benefit of Syria. The Cedar Revolution forced Syrian troops to depart […]

Byline: CLIFFORD D. MAY What must Hamas leaders have been thinking? Last month they sent guerrillas through a secret tunnel from Gaza into Israel where they killed two Israeli soldiers […]

A FEW DAYS AGO, two American soldiers, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, Ore., were taken prisoner in Iraq. They were brutally tortured, and [...]

Byline: Clifford D. May If we learned anything from 9/11 it's that doing nothing while tyrants and terrorists plot to kill Americans is not a viable policy. But that was [...]

LET'S ROLL THE DICE. It's been more than four years since terrorists slipped past American intelligence, eluded law enforcement and slaughtered thousands of Americans on American soil. Why haven't they [...]

Byline: Andrew C. McCarthy and Clifford D. May Today's debate: Torture Opposing view: Policy should be clear, accountable, yet also yield results to save U.S. lives. *** No one favors [...]