The election stakes were high as British voters flocked to the polls for the third time in four years, yesterday, as they voted for 650 parliamentarians. The UK’s first past the post system means that British voters do not directly vote for the prime minister...
On December 4th, German officials officially stated that Russia was behind the brazen assassination of a former Chechen military commander of Chechen Georgian descent, on a Berlin street last summer...
Despite three months of relative stability in the U.S-Iran relationship, signs began to appear this past November and December that tensions were re-emerging...
In response to France’s plans to overhaul the country’s byzantine pension system, protesters took to the streets last week in growing signs of unrest throughout major French towns and cities...
Last Friday December 6th, Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani murdered three U.S. Navy sailors and injured 8 other individuals in an unprovoked act at Naval Air Station Pensacola in the Florida panhandle...
Just this week, several members of Ukrainian far-right groups were photographed attending protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese government...
Last weekend, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi submitted his resignation to the country’s parliament, which accepted it and will now look to replace him...
As leaders from NATO countries gathered this week in London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance, they did so amidst growing uncertainty over the institution’s future...
Since U.S.-Iran tensions increased in May over the Trump administration’s imposition of strict sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, the United States has deployed 14,000 additional U.S. forces to various facilities throughout the Persian Gulf...
The recent release of a trove of classified internal Chinese government documents offers perhaps the closest insight yet of a vast campaign of incarceration, intimidation, and abuse of Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province...
The protests that erupted last week in Bogota, Colombia are being driven by an array of issues—corruption, stagnant wages, grievances related to human rights, and a stalled peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)...
The impeachment inquiry by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee has highlighted ongoing efforts by senior White House and Congressional officials to shift blame over meddling in the 2016 U.S. election from Russia to Ukraine...
Late last week, the United Kingdom announced that it had taken back several children, thought to be between ages 7 and 10, who were living in territory in Syria formerly held by the so-called Islamic State...
The anger and frustration of millions of Haitians over endemic corruption has led to more than two months of large-scale protests across the island nation...
The issue of what to do with captured foreign fighters has been delayed and obfuscated for years by politicians and government officials in Western capitals...