Backgrounder: The new Congress shares President Bush’s reform approach but new legislation is by no means assured.

This publication is now archived. Who controls Iraqi oil?The United States and Britain have some rights to use the oil to fund their occupation, international lawyers say, but Iraq’s oil legally belo…

U.S. presidential nominating conventions often touch on national security and foreign policy, but don’t always signal the direction of a winning candidate’s policy, explains this Backgrounder.

Since cutting ties in 1979, U.S.-Iran dialogue has been sparse and largely fruitless.

This publication is now archived. Three years after 9/11, has progress has been made in the war on terror? Yes, most analysts say, but precisely how much is unclear. On the home front, consider…