Outside the Beltway

Just days before a high stakes primary in New York, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over familiar themes in their latest debate.

Michael Bloomberg announced today that he’s not running for President, but he came awfully close to getting into the race.

It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.

The U.S. is poised to send troops to the front lines of yet another war we have no reason to be involved in.

American forces will be deployed to a combat area in southern Afghanistan, reversing current policy and calling the President’s promised withdrawal date into even further doubt.

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

The investigation continues, but the consensus seems to be growing that Metrojet 9268 was taken out by a bomb.

Hillary Clinton has turned over her private email server in the wake of reports about highly classified information in her email.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.

Another step forward for U.S.-Cuban relations.

We’ve handed off operations in Helmand Province to the Afghanistan army.

The Turks have entered the conflict in Syria. Unfortunately for the United States, it’s not on the side we would prefer.

Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

A major escalation.

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

The U.S. and Europe have announced a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it’s not clear that the Russians will be motivated to change course.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

Is ISIS about to make the situation in the Levant even worse?

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

The search for more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls is not going well, and part of the blame lies with the Nigerian government.

Hubris.

The GOP “establishment” keeps beating back challenges.

Most Americans now see America’s decade of war as a failure.

Why do we persist in going to war?

Former SecDef Robert Gates is among those who believes that the Iraq War unduly diverted attention from fighting the War On Terror.

If you’re still not convinced that we lost the war in Iraq, this should settle the argument.

The “good war” no more.

Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.

The Economist reports that “The coffee insurgency” is winning.

Time to watch a bit of true American exceptionalism in action.

Anti-Assad forces are committing atrocities in Aleppo.

As many as 500 convicted al Qaeda terrorists were released Sunday night as part of a surge of violence that has killed thousands since April.

Ostensible allies in the fight against the Assad regime, al Qaeda and the Free Syrian Army are killing each other.