With the world’s attention focused on India for U.S. President Donald Trump’s much ballyhooed visit, clashes between Hindus and Muslims broke out in the capital of Delhi and elsewhere, leaving at least 20 people dead and more than 200 more injured...
The January 3, 2020 U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF) commander Qasem Soleimani and Abdul Mahdi Al Muhandis, the head of the main Iraqi surrogate for Iran, the Kata’ib Hezbollah (KAH) militia, was a major blow to Iran’s...
The United States has arrived at an impasse, with President Trump and senior officials regularly and publicly demeaning the very government they are supposed to be leading. Regularly repeated false accusations of a so-called ‘Deep State’ conspiracy have real world consequences...
The far-right attack in Hanau, Germany last week underscores a broader trend of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other extremists operating with increasing impunity both in the United States and in Europe...
Late Wednesday evening in Hanau, Germany, a town located 15 miles east of Frankfurt, a lone individual identified as ‘Tobias R.’ went on a terrorist rampage, shooting patrons at two separate hookah bars and murdering nine people...
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...