Storer H. Rowley

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has become an increasingly polarizing figure who welcomes U.S. taxpayer dollars and weapons but not always U.S. advice.

There have always been forces pushing Chicago to be a global city, and the resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza is just the latest example.

President Joe Biden is rightly focusing on diplomacy. There is no upside to get the U.S. involved in another Mideast conflict.

When our family lived in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s — where I was working as the Tribune's Middle East correspondent — we were awed by the hope among both Israelis...

The Israel-Hamas war has been deadly for reporters trying to cover the violence that has claimed more than 10,000 lives, including at least 40 journalists and media workers killed so...

The Middle East once again perches on the precipice of all-out war. Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians are dead or wounded, many of them children. More than 200 Israelis...

Overshadowed by the shameful swirl of Republican chaos in Congress is the fact that Americans are slowly losing their grip not only on their own democratic government but also on...

Jimmy Buffett was an idol of mine. His laid-back, tropical island, good-humored musical escapism was part of the soundtrack of my life, through college, career, marriage, parenthood, across the world...

Toward the end of World War II, my father served on the USS Kalk, a Navy destroyer on anti-submarine warfare and screening duty in the Pacific that steamed all the...

Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, producing some of the brutal hell that...