President Donald Trump suggested changing the name of Defense Department back to its pre-World War II moniker as the War Department, after the success in bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Intellectuals, rarely short on opinions, often fall back on a familiar dodge when confronted with a controversy they’d rather avoid: calling the issue “complex.” The war in Gaza is one such case. To ...

“No place is like Iran,” a waiter once told me. And Sari, he went on, “is the only city where I feel a sense of calm.” It’s the “safest point in the country,” he said, if war ever came.

U.S. soldiers battle Shiite militias in Sadr City, Iraq on May 13, 2008. Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images. Historically, Iran has relied on its network of proxy forces in Lebanon, Iraq ...

The story, like most headlines, is being written elsewhere, by powerful voices far removed from the human cost of war’s devastation. But it’s here, in homes, family gatherings, restaurants and ...