Some Republican leaders have compared the war in Iraq with President Thomas Jefferson's historic confrontation with the Barbary pirates. But the whole story does not necessarily serve the Republican ...

THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES. By Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. Sentinel. 238 pages. $27.95. Brian Kilmeade’s and Don Yaeger’s “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates” dramatically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a fan of The Editors podcast, my ears perked up in the last episode’s tussle between Rich Lowry and Charlie Cooke over the U.S.

Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Beginning in 1784, raiders from ...

A small but dangerous group of Islamic extremists, operating out of the shadows of brutal dictatorships and striking out at the international community. Multiple undeclared wars over more than a ...

The War of 1812 interrupted American policing of the Mediterranean, but it was resumed when the war was over. Finally, in 1815, a series of treaties ended forever the payment of tribute by the United ...

When my husband and I were producing the pro-West Beirut (Lebanon) Daily Star, one of Yemen’s tyrannical kings was ruling from an elaborate barber’s chair. Its few exports were chiefly coffee, cotton, ...

Lessons from America's first war against Islamic terror. At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected United States president was forced to confront a grave threat ...

THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES; THE FORGOTTEN WAR THAT CHANGED AMERICAN HISTORY By Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger Sentinel, $27.95, 238 pages As a scholarly truism holds, “every generation ...

States Have an Important Role to Play in Countering CCP Infiltration What’s Gone Right in the Iran War? Audio By Carbonatix Jefferson’s example in dealing with the pirates supports the Soleimani ...