It has been a good couple of months for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The opportunities for enhancing Russia’s “great power status” — long Putin’s strategy for shoring up support at home — are coming faster than he can take advantage of them. In the past, his strategy has often involved…

The move of President Donald Trump to visit Baghdad last week is a small, good one, amid a week of calamitous decisions. The press will understandably highlight the time that Trump spends with US troops. Yet a key objective of the trip will have been to shore up the new Iraqi government's…

President Donald Trump’s advisers are at pains to emphasize that Friday’s speech on Iran policy was an effort to lay out a comprehensive strategy to tackle the malign behavior of the Tehran regime, not just an announcement that the president had refused to certify Iran’s compliance with the 2015…