James Jeffrey: “The Russian aggression against Ukraine is the most serious challenge to the international order since 9/11.”

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…

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

Whatever it takes--well, whatever political process and diplomatic process is necessary to get that government to behave differently toward its own population and to its neighbors, that is an absolutely essential precondition for a…

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…