Diplomacy & Crisis News

The media has been understandably preoccupied with how various Republican candidates for president have sought to explain their positions on Iraq circa 2002. That is a legitimate subject for attention, and it is not unreasonable to expect candidates for the role of commander-in-chief to be able to speak with nuance about the myriad different topics ...

Osama Bin Laden spent the latter years of his life portraying himself as an authority on Islamic law who was qualified to order Muslims around the world to strike Western targets — and then capable of giving them the purported scriptural justifications for their actions.

The administration is emphasizing climate change’s security threat, from the melting Arctic to the boiling Middle East. It is an uphill slog.

Afghan women can't be left out of the negotiations concerning the future of Afghanistan. Both President Obama and President Ghani need to address the historic role of the United States in perpetuating the abject status of Afghan women.

FIFA's imperious president, Sepp Blatter, is poised to win a fifth term using the playbook of the world’s slickest dictators.

This 15-page document outlines how to form homegrown terror cells.

Bye-bye, Shanghai. Three maps show the immense damage rising sea levels could do.

Incidents of road rage there have spiked. So has the hostility towards women drivers.

While Malaysia and Indonesia’s offer may save the lives of the thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who have been starving on over-crowded boats as monsoon season ramps up, it does nothing to resolve the broader issues behind the crisis.

The White House shot down a claim by North Korea on Wednesday that the rogue state has developed the technology to miniaturize nuclear weapons, an important step in developing a nuclear missile.

Forty years ago, Sikkim was officially annexed by India. Since then, the former monarchy has struggled to hold onto its traditional character.

How a group of scientists and engineers turned to the human immune system to revolutionize road repair.

Among the documents recovered from bin Laden's Pakistani compound in 2011 were 19 publications regarding France.

Desperate to shore up his flagging popularity, Viktor Orbán is embracing the far right.

Turkey’s foreign relations, particularly with European capitals and Washington, have been plagued for decades by the debate of whether to use the term genocide in reference to the massacres and forced relocation of the Armenian community of Anatolia from 1915 to 1918.

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Una lectura cuidadosa y distinta de la impopularidad del presidente. No le ha ido tan mal como a los gobernantes de países vecinos y –sobre todo- la causa de su mala imagen bien puede convertirse en su mayor activo. ¿Qué debe hacer entonces?

Pakistan Investigators raid offices of fake diploma company Pakistani investigators raided the offices of Axact, a software firm in Karachi that has reportedly been running a network of fake online schools (NYT, BBC). Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ordered the investigation following a report by the New York Times that linked Axact to at ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson The taking of Ramadi 1-2-3. While the Islamic State keeps liberating U.S.-made military equipment from fleeing Iraqi troops, the Air Force and Navy are just as intent on bombing them into component parts. Over the weekend, we again saw the Islamic State in Iraq add to their American-made motor ...