The Israeli strike on Qatar, symbolizing President Trump’s inability to rein in Netanyahu, has shifted the interests of Gulf States as well. At a New Year’s Eve party held in Tehran in December 1977, ...

As most any American who lived through the 1979-81 Iranian hostage crisis is likely to recall, 52 American embassy staffers were held prisoner by the Iranian government for a total of 444 days. It was ...

The 39th president of the United States has turned 100 years old. Jimmy Carter celebrates the century mark Tuesday, making history as the first commander-in-chief to reach the milestone. He is ...

As if that wasn’t bad enough, we were hit by another energy crisis, as OPEC cut back oil production substantially. It wasn’t quite as bad as the gas lines and higher prices of the early 1970’s when ...

Key Points and Summary – U.S.–Iran antagonism did not begin with this June’s B-2 strikes. In 2013, after Iranian jets harassed U.S. MQ-1 flights in international airspace, the Pentagon began escorting ...