James Jeffrey: “Our bottom line is this conflict must end and it must end now.”

Russia presses for a premature withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces. Such an untimely U.S. military departure would enable ISIS to return, allow Iran to fill the vacuum, place Iraq's stability at risk, and increase the threats to…

There's a fundamental difference that we do not make clear as a country, let alone an administration, between putting troops under treaty obligations to defend territory and people against somebody else and the troops that we had in…

A political solution is highly unlikely with a government acting the way the current Assad government acts.

You are always facing the possibility of something that approaches ethnic cleansing to essentially get borders shaped so that only your kind of people are in those borders.