WASHINGTON -- It's a rule of thumb in Middle East conflicts that whenever peace talks are announced, each side steps up the fighting so it can grab as much territory as possible before the cease-fire lines are drawn.

This struggle for position is...

WASHINGTON -- The hundred pages of Benghazi emails released last week tell us almost nothing about how four Americans came to die so tragically in that Libyan city. But they are a case study in why nothing works in Washington.

Rather than reading...

WASHINGTON -- At a time when Congress can't pass a budget and the president can't win approval of any important legislation, the public is indignant about the threat of an overreaching, all-powerful federal government that uses the IRS and the ...

WASHINGTON -- It shouldn't have been this hard, but Secretary of State John Kerry has finally gotten Russia to back the peace plan on Syria that it endorsed in principle last June. This isn't a breakthrough but at least it's a beginning.

What the...

WASHINGTON -- America's top intelligence official said Thursday there isn't any evidence so far that the Boston Marathon bombers had help from foreign terrorist networks.

"At this point I haven't seen anything that raises a concern there was a ...

WASHINGTON -- Gen. Salim Idriss, the commander of rebel forces in Syria, complained late Tuesday that President Obama's desire "to wait and wait for more evidence" that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons is encouraging their continued use...