Diplomacy & Crisis News

Analysts are warning of tougher times ahead for the region.

Insight from Lucy Corkin

Bruce Riedel on the forgotten crisis of the JFK administration.

The role of modern airpower in the critical maritime domain

Obama took on Trump and other GOP presidential candidates but conspicuously sidestepped weaknesses in his own foreign policy legacy.

2015 Global Thinker Wai Wai Nu and Fortify Rights executive director Matthew Smith warn that democracy will mean little unless Muslims get a seat at the political table.

It's his final State of the Union.

The Wassenaar Arrangement aims to reduce the supply of spy software for authoritarian states.

Crude oil’s plunge would have been cause for celebration in years past. But falling prices today are hammering many of the states that enjoyed oil-fueled economic boom years.

Paradoxical as it may sound, Burma’s democratic transition cannot succeed without Beijing.

Authorities are putting green development front and center.

10 U.S. sailors were detained by the Iranian Navy on Tuesday after entering Iran's territorial waters.

As United Nations officials gave on-site accounts of the “horrible and terrible” situation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, from 400 critically ill people facing death without immediate medical care to a kilo of rice costing $300, the first emergency evacuation took place today – a five-year-old girl rushed through pro-Government roadblocks for urgent surgery in Damascus.

Strongly condemning the recent attacks against a major power plant in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the country said today he is “deeply shocked by these actions that directly affect civilian life,” and warned that such “ignoble” attacks may amount to war crimes.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the terrorist bombing in Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, calling it a “despicable crime targeting the heart of Istanbul’s tourist district.”

According to Chinese state media, the ship will be the largest coast guard vessel in the world.

An estimated 40 percent of Afghanistan’s children are not in school.

New year-end investments look to have propelled Beijing to the top spot for 2015.

Energy projects tied to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor are supposed to double Pakistan's energy capacity.

The ongoing deadly violence in Yemen has left nearly 10 million children facing threats of malnutrition and disease, lack of education, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to the country warned today, calling for unhindered humanitarian access to all those in need and an end to the conflict.