National Security

Jeremy Scahill moderates a discussion on the Iran crisis with columnist Mehdi Hasan, reporter Murtaza Hussain, and editors Vanessa Gezari and Ali Gharib.

With Iran tensions soaring, Bernie Sanders stands as a leading anti-war candidate — and a 2017 fight over sanctions bolsters his case.

The operation targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, commander of the Yemen division of Iran’s elite Quds Force, near the Yemeni capital Sana’a.

But the measure includes an exception for situations when military force is “necessary and appropriate to defend against an imminent attack” on Americans.

Why is the media hounding Democrats who accurately call the killing of a general from a nation the United States has not declared war on an assassination?

The drone strike that killed the Iranian general is the legacy of two decades of secret legal opinions aimed at circumventing the U.S. assassination ban.

Members on both sides of the aisle were unimpressed with classified briefings and disputed the Trump administration’s legal rationale for the assassination.

A nuanced portrait of Suleimani emerges from a leaked archive of secret Iranian spy cables obtained by The Intercept.

The legacy of the Iraq war, and Donald Trump’s assassination of an Iranian official in Baghdad, has the potential to transform the Democratic primary.

There’s no justification for assassinating foreign officials, including Qassim Suleimani. This is an aggressive act of war by the United States.