On September 20, Pakistan’s Information Minister stated his country was inviting Saudi Arabia to formally join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a partner...
Over the next several years, dozens of U.S. citizens currently incarcerated as a result of terrorism prosecutions are scheduled to be released...
The ongoing disaster of Brexit talks between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) is a full-spectrum challenge to both sides in terms of uncertainty, instability, and redundancy...
The potential for U.S.-Iran competition to flare into outright hostilities increased significantly this month...
On September 12, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo informed Congress of the State Department’s intent to certify that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were adequately protecting the lives of Yemeni civilians during their respective bombing strikes...
Terrorism in 2017 continued to be a global phenomenon with intensely local impacts and solutions...
On September 14, 2018, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, visited a border crossing between Colombia and Venezuela and delivered an unusual warning when speaking about options to address the long-running crisis in Venezuela...
Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has regularly conducted air strikes in Syria to diminish the military capabilities of Hezbollah, as well as Iranian targets...
In the U.S., the ‘death of local journalism’ is a term used to describe the loss of independent local newspapers as large media corporations consolidate an even greater market share...
After seven long years of hard fighting in Syria’s bloody civil war, it is unclear whether Hezbollah will come out of the conflict on the positive or negative side of the ledger...
Idlib has a terrorist problem. But the imminent military assault on rebel stronghold, framed by the Assad regime and its Russian allies as a necessary step to stabilize Syria, will create an immense humanitarian disaster while still proving counterproductive in terms of an effective response...
How governments respond to natural disasters is among the most tangible ways in which people assess the competence of their elected leadership...
Frustration with inept governance has served as one of the few unifying issues in Iraq capable of transcending ethnic group, religion, tribe or sect. ...
The so-called Islamic State’s (IS) ‘caliphate’ has been crushed. While IS has proven to be an adaptive enemy,there is no dispute that the losses they suffered on the ground in Iraq and Syria seriously weakened the group...
On September 6, the governments of the United States, Canada, France, and Germany issued a statement in support of the U.K.’s assessment of the direct culpability of the Russian government in the March 2018 attempted assassination of two Russian nationals on British soil...