Calling them both out and hitting back directly is the right call when it comes to these two nations.

That puts Cuba back on a short list with just three other countries: Iran, North Korea and Syria. With a major regime transition underway in Syria following the abrupt resignation of longtime ...

Iran, meanwhile, deepened its relations during the Iran-Iraq ... North Korea last year. That perhaps reflects a limit to the relationship between Iran and Russia that has already been seen in Syria.

In Iraq, as in Syria, the imminent extinguishing of the mini-state of the so-called Islamic State (IS) is raising the question of whether U.S. objectives in Iraq ...

Since Oct. 19, U.S. troops have come under fire over 150 times by Iran-backed militias in both Iraq ... Afghanistan withdrawal. “ Landis noted that the Kurdish political leadership in Syria ...

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in ... that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, fueling ...