James Jeffrey: “Iran is totally committed to the Assad regime and its maintenance of power.”

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…

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.

Well, first of all, we did not bring it. The Iraqis wanted it. And in the end, they have a constitutional democratic system.