DAMASCUS, Syria – As rebels advanced towards the Syrian capital of Damascus on Dec 7, the staff in the hilltop Presidential Palace prepared for a speech they hoped would lead to a peaceful end ...

As a lifelong spy, Putin has mastered this form of deception and has used it against several previous American presidents. He employed it with George W. Bush, famously fooling the president into ...

Such deception extended all the way to the president, who told Americans on July 8, 2021, that the Afghan government was unlikely to fall and that there would be no chaotic evacuations of Americans ...