You have to wonder what is going on in the minds of Pakistan’s leaders as the Pakistani Taliban seemingly retreat from their defiant occupation of a district dangerously close to the nation’s capital –- a crisis that has left the country and the world on edge.
Are President Asif Ali Zardari and his advisors so confident [...]

Peter W. Galbraith, the author of The End of Iraq and Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies, formerly served as a U.S. ambassador to Croatia. He discussed global challenges for the United States with foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.

The U.S. Navy’s sudden rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from pirates this week ended an ugly episode of what has become a familiar drama. Sadly, the problem is occurring not only off the coast of Somalia but around the world. From Africa to the Middle East to Latin America to the Asia-Pacific region, pirates have [...]

The future of the United States and India, in broad terms, beckons largely from the same direction. Thus, it was encouraging to learn that a substantive meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India in London recently went well. Obama called India a critical partner, and Singh described the president as [...]