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Jul 18, 2019
In recent years, the country has managed to avoid jihadi violence. But not everyone will want to copy its methods.
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Jul 18, 2019
The volatile Philippine leader is trying to fend off accusations of being soft on Beijing.
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Jul 18, 2019
The Air Force wants a key regional ally to get new F-16 fighter jets to deter threats from Caracas.
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Jul 18, 2019
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid speaks on how to stand up against the far-right.
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Jul 18, 2019
The United States should stop treating the region as secondary to the rest of the Middle East.
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Jul 18, 2019
Modern riot control tactics were born in the city's 1960s riots. Now they're back with a vengeance.
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Jul 18, 2019
Eager to project its power in the Indo-Pacific, the country has doubled down on Japan and India.
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Jul 18, 2019
Ankara may buy Moscow's most advanced Su-57 after its expulsion from the F-35 program.
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Jul 18, 2019
Plus: A tight vote expected in Britain's House of Commons, ethno-nationalists declare a new region in Ethiopia, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 17, 2019
Cool heads are needed in both Beijing and Washington.
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Jul 17, 2019
Long deemed strategically irrelevant by the United States, the EU is poised to become a major geopolitical power. Washington should take note.
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Jul 17, 2019
A new book looks at why the U.S. military keeps trapping itself in endless conflicts.
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Jul 17, 2019
Almost four decades after the first U.S.-Pakistani mission in Afghanistan, Islamabad risks getting caught in the crosshairs of great-power politics again. Only deft diplomacy will save it.
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Jul 17, 2019
The decline in U.S. soft power didn't start with Trump, but he accelerated it this week with his racist tweets.
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Jul 17, 2019
It won't bring the regime in from the cold, but it will save lives.
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Jul 17, 2019
Plus: Hong Kong's justice minister in China, Congo's Ebola crisis, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 16, 2019
The presidential contender is leading the charge against the Defense Department's revolving door but has a history of pushing the interests of firms in her home state.
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Jul 16, 2019
A coalition between Pedro Sánchez's Socialists and Albert Rivera's Ciudadanos could prevent a fourth election in as many years—but voters are unlikely to buy it.
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Jul 16, 2019
Cambodia's strongman has found an unlikely American voice.
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Jul 16, 2019
Tokyo's temper tantrum over history is mostly hurting itself.
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Jul 16, 2019
A transcript of the nominee's remarks at the European Parliament plenary session.
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Jul 16, 2019
Venezuela's would-be president, Juan Guaidó, says he's confident ahead of a new round of talks with the Maduro government.
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Jul 16, 2019
How Hong Kong is turning into the West Berlin of the quasi-cold war between the West and China.
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Jul 16, 2019
A few years after Bogotá struck a deal with the FARC, challenges to the agreement risk undermining it.
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Jul 16, 2019
Plus: China's economy slows, Erdogan readies for S-400 deployment, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 15, 2019
Opposing the compromise candidate for EU commission president will further empower populists and Euroskeptics.
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Jul 15, 2019
It isn't just Trump who has put the country's small businesses under pressure. Díaz-Canel is after them, too.
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Jul 15, 2019
Officially, Japan has "national security" concerns about technology exports to South Korea. Unofficially, World War II still casts an ugly shadow.
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Jul 15, 2019
Republicans and Democrats have every reason to compromise and ratify the agreement.
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Jul 15, 2019
The decline and fall of an alliance.
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Jul 15, 2019
Wood smuggling is big business for the terrorist group.
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Jul 15, 2019
The administration has settled on a package of sanctions to punish Ankara for buying a Russian missile system.
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Jul 15, 2019
Plus: Iran says it will talk—if U.S. sanctions end, Italy presents a migration plan, and what to watch in the world this week.
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Jul 12, 2019
A political program that does not envision statehood for the Palestinians could reverse the Gulf Arab states' tentative warming toward Israel.
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Jul 12, 2019
The United States uses the fighter jet program to further its own influence while leaving allies dependent.
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Jul 12, 2019
Outgoing U.N. official pleads a case for the tobacco industry, saying health expertise and cigarette jobs can contribute to global prosperity and improved understanding of health risks.
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Jul 12, 2019
The abrupt evacuation in May left hundreds of diplomats in limbo and too few in Iraq to handle Iran's influence and other pressing issues, according to State Department sources.
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Jul 12, 2019
Germans welcomed an unprecedented number of Middle Easterners into their country—but not always into their workplaces.
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Jul 12, 2019
Legal marijuana abroad is playing into xenophobia at home.
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Jul 12, 2019
When accessing basic services, more than 1 in 4 people are still being squeezed for bribes.
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Jul 12, 2019
A maritime clash has left the public wondering why their president won't stand up to Beijing.
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Jul 12, 2019
Maximum pressure could still deliver strategic outcomes.
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Jul 12, 2019
On the podcast: Alberto Nisman accused Argentina's president of covering up Iran's role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Then he was shot in the head.
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Jul 12, 2019
Russian missiles headed for Turkey, U.S. immigration raids, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 12, 2019
With the help of Russia and China, European leaders can prevent the total collapse of the 2015 agreement—and keep the region safer.
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Jul 11, 2019
Thanks to its advances in nuclear technology, the country may be closer to a bomb than ever.
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Jul 11, 2019
U.S. security officials are pushing for penalties over Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system.
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Jul 11, 2019
Ahead of elections in 2020, Ethiopia has many problems to address. Here are our top reads on how Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power and what comes next.
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Jul 11, 2019
Caught between the United States and Iran, Iraq is facing deep energy insecurity. In Kurdistan, the solution may be solar power.
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Jul 11, 2019
The upcoming Disney film is already a cultural battleground. But China's most famous heroine thrives in many tellings.
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Jul 11, 2019
After years of bloody warfare, it's time to recognize what the Syrian dictator rules over: a chronically violent and chaotic failed state.
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Jul 11, 2019
Donald Trump is gathering his favorite meme-makers and trolls for a White House summit.
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Jul 11, 2019
The brutal legacy of industrialization left the "scientific-technical intelligentsia" in the cold.
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Jul 11, 2019
After years of denouncing Obama and cozying up to Trump, Saudi Arabia is trying to resurrect its influence among Democrats in advance of the 2020 election. It won't work.
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Jul 11, 2019
After years of denouncing Obama and cozying up to Trump, Saudi Arabia is trying to resurrect its influence among Democrats in advance of the 2020 election. It won't work.
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Jul 11, 2019
News of the allegations surfaces at a time of unusual turmoil in the Pentagon's top ranks.
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Jul 11, 2019
Plus: A chemical weapons investigation in Syria, pension reform in Brazil, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 10, 2019
Sheikh Mohammed's wife has fled her home—and that may just be the beginning of his troubles.
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Jul 10, 2019
After months of rumors, the finance minister bitterly parts ways with the leftist president.
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Jul 10, 2019
Alexander Malkevich, whose employees were detained in Libya, is part of Moscow's efforts to create a "concert of chaos" around the globe.
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Jul 10, 2019
Taiwan's president is getting a reelection boost from Beijing's aggression.
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Jul 10, 2019
A translation of the statement from the Taliban and Afghan officials.
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Jul 10, 2019
It's time for Washington to renegotiate its ties with Cameroon's absentee leader.
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Jul 10, 2019
Plus: Japan and South Korea's diplomatic dispute, Mexico's new finance minister, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 09, 2019
Worries over leaks could curtail the flow of frank information from foreign embassies in Washington.
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Jul 09, 2019
Worries over leaks could curtail the flow of frank information from foreign embassies in Washington.
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Jul 09, 2019
A new think tank funded by George Soros and Charles Koch wants to end American interventionism, but shows no understanding of what motivates it.
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Jul 09, 2019
U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer will take over as acting secretary of defense while Trump's latest nominee, Mark Esper, enters the confirmation process.
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Jul 09, 2019
Empty promises and bad data won't solve the air pollution crisis.
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Jul 09, 2019
The likely British prime minister doesn't take anything seriously—even the country's future.
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Jul 09, 2019
The country's strongman is using the region to cement his rule.
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Jul 09, 2019
The two U.S. allies have agreed to a marginal increase to help backfill the U.S. withdrawal.
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Jul 09, 2019
An attempt to rein in Iraq's paramilitaries could end up making them stronger than the government.
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Jul 09, 2019
How the Popular Mobilization Forces are taking over the Iraqi state from within.
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Jul 09, 2019
The country's most powerful paramilitaries are supposedly ready to follow government orders. The truth is the other way around.
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Jul 09, 2019
Plus: French officials travel to Tehran, Trump attacks Britain's ambassador, and the other stories we're following today.
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Jul 08, 2019
Iraq's Shiite militias are doing Iran's bidding against the United States. Baghdad won't be able to dismantle them.
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Jul 08, 2019
Even with the eyes of the world elsewhere, here's how Trump can keep up pressure on Maduro.
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Jul 08, 2019
It was the U.S. versus 28 EU nations. Guess who's winning?
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Jul 08, 2019
The Trump administration has done more for the millions in camps than any Islamic leader.
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Jul 08, 2019
Kushner's plan aims to divide Palestinians from their leaders but fails to recognize that the people already resent their corrupt leadership—while failing to place any similar pressure on an Israeli prime minister under indictment.
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Jul 08, 2019
As large colonial-era tea plantations crumble, family-owned plots are trying to take their place and save the industry.
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Jul 08, 2019
Athens's center-right establishment is back in power after mimicking the scare tactics of the far-left.
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Jul 08, 2019
The Nordic countries show the limits, not successes, of Bernie Sanders's plans.
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Jul 08, 2019
The region has been carved up into Republican and Democratic countries, to the detriment of the United States.
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Jul 08, 2019
The latest breach could significantly reduce the time it will take Tehran to amass enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon.
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Jul 08, 2019
Plus: Sudan's final transition deal, Parliament's plan to stop a no-deal Brexit, and what to watch in the world this week.
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Jul 07, 2019
Israel needs the Palestinian Authority's security cooperation to avoid another intifada—and without security ties to Israel and the funding that comes with it, the PA could cease to exist.
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Jul 06, 2019
Trump's Washington celebrates a militaristic Fourth of July, protests surge in Hong Kong, and the European Union chooses new leadership.
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Jul 06, 2019
Shootings reported as enfrentamientos, or confrontations, often mask killings of civilians and other misconduct.
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Jul 05, 2019
On the podcast: Journalist Laura Wides-Muñoz traces the lives of several undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.
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Jul 05, 2019
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is in line to take over as German chancellor—but there's no telling if she'll survive long enough to get the job.
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Jul 04, 2019
Despite optimistic signs from U.S.-led peace talks in Qatar, Afghanistan's future looks bleak.
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Jul 04, 2019
The country is set to boast the world's longest life expectancy by 2040. What are the Spanish doing right?
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Jul 04, 2019
Ethiopia's prime minister oversaw the chaotic release of thousands of prisoners, including many ethnonationalist militants. His amnesty may now be coming back to haunt him.
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Jul 04, 2019
Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks anticipated robots and artificial intelligence—and they didn't trust them.
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Jul 04, 2019
Reviews of the latest releases on mosquitoes, the Islamic State, and Kim Jong Un.
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Jul 04, 2019
Beijing is famous for putting engineers and scientists in charge. But that doesn't make for better leaders.
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Jul 04, 2019
A newly translated novel portrays the European Union's search for meaning as a historical reckoning—and a comedy of manners.
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Jul 04, 2019
China and the United States have drastically different visions for autonomous transportation.
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