Outside the Beltway

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

Would faith survive the discovery that the central premise of the Bible is a lie?

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Gas prices are falling nationwide but that’s mostly because the economy kind of stinks.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Let’s leave Egypt to the Egyptians.

Mitt Romney believes he could take America to war without Congressional involvement.

Saudi Arabia’s monarchy has suffered the loss of Crown Prince Nayef, the successor 88-year-old King Abdullah.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

Facts are stubborn things.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

Russia may be getting more involved in the Syrian conflict.