“Never, never, never,” Winston Churchill wrote in “My Early Life,” “believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he ...

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. “In a matter of weeks, the Iran war has generated massive uncertainty about ...

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President Donald Trump likes his military campaigns short and victorious. The quick overnight strike that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power is his preferred model of warmaking. But the U.S ...

President Trump said late Sunday that he is not ready to declare victory against Iran despite saying the U.S. has decimated the country militarily and economically. “No, I’m not going to do that.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retired Army Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson said Wednesday that President Trump would be “smart” to “declare victory” in the conflict ...

President Donald Trump before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Feb. 27. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images) Nine hundred years ago, the Iranian philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali ...

Dozens of Democrats have voted against a nonbinding resolution in the House that reaffirms Iran as the "largest state sponsor of terrorism." The resolution, put forward by Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., ...

Whether a nation has just cause to begin a war and whether it conducts that war justly are matters of international law. Whether a U.S. President has the power to declare war is a matter of American ...

The Constitution says Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war on another nation, but there are exceptions and disagreements about war power. Let's get the facts. *** declaration of ...