As the war inside the country rages on, Yemen continues toward economic, political, and social collapse.The conflict between the Saudi-led coalition against the Iran-supported Houthi rebels has been a quagmire for several years...
Libya has remained a deeply divided country in the seven years since a NATO-led campaign toppled the Gaddafi regime...
With its direct military operations, indirect military support, and prolific arms sales, the United States is as deeply entangled in the Middle East as it ever has been...
Global jihadist organizations such as the so-called Islamic State have found significant numbers of adherents in the five Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan...
A signature campaign promise by then-candidate Donald Trump was to walk away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest regional trade agreement in history...
After taunts by President Trump that missiles were ‘on their way,’ the United States, along with France and the United Kingdom, launched at least 105 missiles at three sites in Syria on April 14...
The United States’ reaction to the latest chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime in Syria has been marked by taunting tweets by President Trump, indicating a retaliatory strike was imminent...
The United States government is going to great lengths to hide accurate accounting of personnel and the costs of its military operations in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan...
The Syrian civil war has been, from the beginning, barbaric against the civilian population. The war is a local catastrophe, having killed some 450,000 people, and also an intensely complicated regional and international crisis...
In 2015, China announced a massive initiative to build transportation and energy infrastructure in Asia, Europe, and Africa. The “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) envisions nearly 1,000 projects that would link 64 countries, including China, in a reconstituted Silk Road...
On April 6, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced the United States was imposing new sanctions on Russian officials and oligarchs...
One of the more tragically enduring images of the rise and fall of the so-called Islamic State is that of the masked executioner, reveling in the spectacle of savagery...
Most threats are overstated in terms of global reach. Yet the risk and the global consequences of another war between India and Pakistan—who have fought several full-on wars since 1947 and endured endless border tensions and small conflicts—is difficult to overstate...
There are few issues as ripe for exploitation by politicians than over the acceptance of refugees. Staggering numbers of people are trying to flee active conflicts, primarily from Syria, but also from Iraq and Afghanistan. Persistent ecological, political, and economic crises plague much of the...
On April 2, the White House confirmed a Kremlin statement that United States President Donald Trump had discussed, or at least mentioned, a possible summit between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin...