Protests at the annual gathering of the Group of 20 (G20) are nothing new, nor are the host of contentious issues among the world’s largest economies. ...
On February 2, in an appearance greeted with much enthusiasm, newly-confirmed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged State Department employees to share his embrace of accountability, honesty, and respect as core values, saying he would defer to the Department’s institutional knowledge and deploy talent and...
The U.S.-led “Operation Inherent Resolve” coalition is shrinking the so-called Islamic State's (IS) territory in Iraq and Syria and ending its self-declared caliphate....
The current U.S. approach to diplomacy and foreign affairs is not only at sharp odds with nearly a century of precedent and policy; it is also at odds with itself. ...
The growing chasm between the United States and the European Union (E.U.), and other countries around the world pushing for multilateral approaches to large-scale challenges, is more than just rhetoric; there are very real policy differences concerning how to approach several ongoing – and potential...
It is exactly five months since the Trump Administration enacted its first visa travel ban from several countries and a parallel halt to refugee entry into the U.S. ...
There was little optimism after the April 2017 meeting between U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that views of ‘personal friendship’ would supersede long-running geopolitical and economic contentions between Washington and Beijing....
In the late evening of June 26, the U.S. Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, tweeted out a warning of a U.S. military response should the Assad regime in Syria launch another chemical attack....
Three years after losing Mosul, Iraqi forces are methodically clearing Old Mosul of the so-called Islamic State....
The June 5 isolation of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain, joined by Egypt and a few other regional states, exposed widening fissures with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) alliance....
As the so-called Islamic State continues to crumble in Syria, the competing military forces battling the group are running out of space to avoid confronting each other....
One of the unacknowledged victims of recent terror attacks in London and Manchester is the sense of latent community that exists in multicultural environments....
The rise of the so-called Islamic State highlighted the ability of violent extremist organizations to use social media as a tool to radicalize and recruit new members, and spread violent ideology with unprecedented speed and efficiency....
A day after being shot with a semi-automatic rifle during the GOP congressional baseball team practice in Northern Virginia, Congressman Steve Scalise—the third ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives—remains in critical condition....
On June 13, reports emerged that the Trump administration was giving the Pentagon full authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan....