Rather than a superpower standoff, the world is more likely to be heading toward an international system led by four powers. In this... Read More

Bellingcat is an independent group of exceptionally gifted Leicester-based internet researchers who use information gleaned from open sources... Read More

Farida Nabourema is jolting an old dictatorship, passed from father to son. Read More

Thirty years ago, the US-backed Somali government slaughtered an estimated 200,000 people. Now survivors want US help uncovering the crimes. Read More

Mohammad bin Salman isn't just ruining his own reputation—he's spoiling Washington's policies across the region. Read More

Turkey, a human rights champion under Erdogan, is accusing Saudi Arabia, another human rights champion, of the abhorrent murder of a Saudi... Read More

After Yalta, FDR went to Egypt to meet with King Ibn Saud to persuade him to accept a homeland for the Jews. It did not go to plan. Read More

The official narrative will resonate differently inside and outside of the kingdom. Read More

We are the only country with enough standing to pressure all players to reach some agreement here. Read More

Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, doesn't seem to be taking any chances before national elections in December, in which she... Read More

US President Donald J. Trump announced on October 20 that the United States would soon pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces... Read More

The party has limited appeal across the Continent and shuns alliances with liberals or socialists. Read More

Israelis within missile range of the Gaza Strip went to bed with trepidation Wednesday night, unsure whether a full-scale war in Gaza was... Read More

Across India, women are speaking up with tales of their abuse at the hands of powerful men. Read More

What I said was provocative, or at least deemed to be, by complacent champions of globalization. Read More

A new diplomatic history argues that the United States, Egypt, and Israel prevented a Palestinian state from emerging. But leaders such as... Read More

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new frontier of military competition, and with China and Russia making headway in the field, the Pentagon... Read More

A negotiated settlement is the only way out. Read More

Even calculating for the rising threat from China, leaving the INF puts the United States in a worse strategic position than if it were to... Read More

Trump's seeming unpredictability, and penchant for muscular showdown, has dramatically altered China's risk calculations, forcing Beijing to... Read More

In an interview with Al-Monitor, the head of the Supreme Council of the Tuareg Tribes, Mawlay Qudeidi, speaks about the clashes between rival... Read More

The Saudi royals are claiming Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a fist fight in the Saudi consulate 18 days ago. This is over-the-top... Read More

Authoritarians will do authoritarian things. It is a perilous and self-serving fantasy to believe otherwise. Read More

Pakistan's civilian government has little control over the country's powerful army which stands out as a most trusted institution, with more... Read More

It feels like déjà vu all over again. Reports of an Indian arms deal with Russia. Concerns in the United States about said... Read More

The Khashoggi crisis has called attention to a largely overlooked Saudi-led war in Yemen. On a rare trip to the front line, we found Yemenis... Read More

Whatever Theresa May agrees to with Brussels may not survive politics in the UK. Read More

Leavers have consistently ignored the problems of the hard border, says Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole Read More

Imran Khan is addressing his nation's challenges by choosing liberally from a menu of Western and Asian futures. Read More

This is how the world ends — not with a bang, but with a lot of really big bombs. Read More

To compete in the global economy, the region's urban centers need to return to their commercial roots and reclaim a bygone culture of... Read More

We can all agree that the negotiations over the UK's departure from the European Union have been proving messy: where the responsibility for... Read More

Thousands of undocumented migrants defied orders by the Mexican authorities to register. They are part of a larger group that traveled from... Read More

The president's claim that the caravan had been infiltrated was news to the Honduran migrants traveling north. Read More

Just in time for the election, The Camp of the Saints is arriving on our doorstep. Read More

The leader of a controversial vigilante group fights for legitimacy in a crime-riddled South African community. Read More