Earlier this month, China tested the ‘Guam Killer,’ an intermediate-range ballistic missile with the capability to strike U.S. bases and vessels in the Pacific, immediately spurring debates about the potential for a Sino-American military showdown...
A series of actions undertaken by terrorists to target the international community have occurred in Burkina Faso over recent weeks, including the kidnapping of two international aid workers in December and a Canadian mining worker who was later found dead...
In familiar echoes of decades past, Russia and the U.S. are once again accusing each other of supporting illegitimate dictatorships and plotting regime change in Latin America....
Despite recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump, no serious terrorism experts believe that the so-called Islamic State has been defeated...
Russia has long maintained considerable influence in the Balkans, particularly in the former Yugoslavia and now, in Serbia. This influence has steadily grown more overt since the fall of the Soviet Union...
In late December 2018, President Trump announced that the United States would begin withdrawing approximately 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, effectively cutting the U.S. military presence in that country in half...
The December announcement by President Donald Trump that the 2,000 U.S. forces in eastern Syria would be withdrawn has upended Israel’s strategy to roll back Iran’s extensive military and militia presence in Syria...
As the March 29 deadline approaches, the chaos surrounding Brexit has exceeded every worst-case scenario since the process began...
On January 15, Somali terrorist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for an attack in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on the DusitD2 luxury hotel, located in a business complex known to be frequented by Western civilians...
The ‘Yellow Vests’ protests in France began as a local protest, something of a unique event in the age of manufactured outrage, but are now being amplified on social media by opportunists looking to promote their own agendas...
In a series of recent briefings and statements, Trump administration officials have expressed growing alarm about Iran's missile program, which they characterize as the ‘largest in the Middle East....
Idlib Province in Syria’s northwest is the last rebel-held stronghold in the country. The territory is now firmly in the hands of a coalition led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)...
The January 10, 2019 speech delivered by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Cairo, Egypt was titled ‘A Force for Good: America Reinvigorated in the Middle East.' Pompeo offered his remarks at the American University in Cairo, and in many ways, his comments were...
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 53 journalists died while covering the news or investigating issues across the globe in 2018. More troubling, 34 of those journalists were murdered because of their work, singled out and targeted by criminals and rogue governments for...
In 2017, Europe suffered from the highest number of terrorist attacks linked to jihadist ideology in modern history...