Gorbachev had a thin resume as an apparatchik who had risen in the party by doing nothing, in fact, by being nobody. When he came to London to be promoted by Margaret Thatcher, his 10-line resume introduced him as the Central Committee’s agricultural tsar who had risen to be party …

Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated during a visit to Iran in what the terror group claimed was an “airstrike” directly on his room that was conducted by Israel early Wednesday. His death dramatically escalates tensions in the Middle East and raises the specter of all-out war between …

Over the past two days, Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah figure close to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and is believed to be behind the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office, while he was in Tehran attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. The assassination …