Facing growing criticism for its handling of the coronavirus, now called CORVID-19, China is now working to engineer perhaps the largest quarantine in history...
Iranian voters go to the polls on February 21, 2020 to elect representatives to the eleventh Majles, the 290 seat unicameral Iranian parliament...
After a month of on again, off again talks and intensive diplomacy, the United States and the Afghan Taliban seem to have reached an agreement that could lead to a temporary cessation of violence with a broader goal of reaching a negotiated settlement...
At its peak, the so-called Islamic State attracted tens of thousands of foreigners from dozens of country around the world...
The United States government and a wide range of human rights and interest groups closely monitor Iran’s human rights record...
The Syrian civil war continues to rage, with most of the intense fighting taking place in northwestern Syria in Idlib Province...
On January 16, leading French officials and members of the G5 Sahel (Mali, Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Burkina Faso) met in Pau, France to discuss the deteriorating security situation in West Africa...
Law enforcement authorities recently discovered the longest smuggling tunnel ever identified, stretching from Tijuana, on the northern Mexico border nearly three-quarters of a mile across the border toward San Diego, California...
Just last week, France agreed to send war frigates to the eastern Mediterranean, a decision welcomed by Greece and decried by Turkey...
The Trump administration continues to impose a steady stream of new U.S. sanctions and sanctions designations on Iran as part of its ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on that country...
On October 26, 2019, the leader of the so-called Islamic State since 2010, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi met his end when U.S. Special Forces carried out a daring operation () in the outskirts of Barisha in Idlib, Syria...
Over the weekend, Sudesh Amman stabbed two members of the public in Streatham, London before being intercepted by plain-clothes police officers monitoring him following his release from prison just over a week ago...
U.S. officials have expressed confidence that a series of drone strikes in Yemen toward the end of January was successful in killing Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of al-Qaeda's most potent franchise groups...
As the headlines have shifted to other issues, Venezuela begins 2020 facing a massive humanitarian crisis with region-wide consequences. By the end of 2019, more than 4.7 million Venezuelans had fled the country, nearly 16% of the total population, roughly the entire population of Panama...
Deep fakes are videos that have been digitally altered or manipulated, typically with the assistance of machine learning tools, to produce human bodies and/or faces that look and sound authentic...