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While some are already claiming the effectiveness of US and UN imposed sanctions, Iranian officials are whipping up propaganda to use sanctions to crack down on dissidents. The National Iranian [...]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry announced his decision this week to delay the vote on the New START treaty until mid-September. The delay has a lot to do with partisan [...]

This post has been corrected from the version first posted at 3pm PST. President Obama announced Monday that the plan to end the combat mission in Iraq by the end of this month is on schedule, [...]

In the New START debate, the right continues to play fast and loose with the facts after a recently released report showed that Russia kept its side of the bargain in the original START arms [...]

The cover of last week’s Time magazine is deservedly catching some heat. It’s a picture of an 18 year old Afghan woman named Aisha whose nose and ears were cut off by her husband and [...]

The recent US sanctions on Iran may be causing problems for Iranian students. Last week, the new, tougher sanctions the US  imposed on Iran forced the Educational Testing Service to suspend [...]

For anyone who is not planning to personally read all 92K classified Afghanistan war docs released this Sunday by Wikileaks — or doesn’t have time to read the reams of coverage to try [...]

The debate rages in the Senate on ratification of the New START treaty, as we wait for a vote from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The opposition claims that Obama’s vision of a [...]

In these last crucial weeks before a likely vote on the New START, many Senate Republicans are still on-the-fence about which way they will vote. So what are the consequences if New START fails? [...]

The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, sat before the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week to discuss the current strategy in [...]