Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard deflected congressional questions about whether the intelligence community had warned the Trump administration that Iran would attack its Gulf neighbors and close the Strait of Hormuz, bringing oil shipments to a halt.

Israel’s killing of Ali Larijani, a pivotal Iranian leader, served only to escalate the crisis atmosphere that Iranians are feeling: How to cope and envision a future, while facing crushing U.S.-Israeli attacks and a rigid regime that sees protesters as “just like the enemy.”

Now that the Syrian civil war is over, Sweden wants Syrian expats to go home. For those who’ve built a new life in Sweden, that’s not a small request.

President Donald Trump’s appeal for help reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the vital Persian Gulf shipping lane that Iran has closed, has received a cool reception from U.S. allies that feel mistreated and weren’t consulted before Mr. Trump’s decision to go to war.

Women are increasingly challenging social norms by forming farming cooperatives.

Each energy crisis in the past has led to innovations that lessen the blows of the next one. Creative thinking is never in short supply.