Sustained protests that erupted in Iraq and Lebanon in the fall of 2019 present Iran with an unprecedented challenge in two countries that Iran depends on to accomplish its core national security objectives...
Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States envoy for reconciliation in Afghanistan, recently returned to Kabul in an attempt to jumpstart political negotiations with the Taliban...
On December 17, a large protest occurred in Delhi as demonstrators took to the streets to denounce a controversial law known as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)...
The ongoing war in Libya is a catastrophe that has spawned a persistent humanitarian crisis along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...
On November 4, 2019, nine Americans, three women and six children (all family members), were massacred in northwest Mexico, in the territory of the Sinaloa cartel...
In one of the most brutal and lethal attacks in recent memory, the Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS) raided a military barracks in Inates, Niger last week, killing more than 70 soldiers...
In response to the rise in domestic terrorism incidents, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new specialized unit within the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to address ‘Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism (REME)...
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...