by Alina Polyakova On November 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law legislation allowing the Russian government to designate media…

TRIPOLI-SICILY: Abdelsattar Heitita and Guiseppe Pipitone This is a dark story. Dark like the cloaks of the Libyan militia who have sworn…

by Vera Mironova, Ekaterina Sergatskova, Karam Alhamad In 2014, as life in ISIS began to stabilize, many of its foreign fighters adopted an almost…

[caption id="attachment_55255024" align="aligncenter" width="2806"] Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at Beijing's Great Hall of the…

by Siegfried S. Hecker In January 2004, the director of North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center handed me a sealed glass jar with…

[caption id="attachment_55255054" align="aligncenter" width="4307"] Russian President Vladimir Putin enters the hall to deliver his annual speech to…

[caption id="attachment_55255065" align="aligncenter" width="4388"] Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech as he inspects a parade during…

[caption id="attachment_55255068" align="aligncenter" width="4724"] Nationalists light flares during the Independence Day March on November 11, 2015…

[caption id="attachment_55255072" align="aligncenter" width="7360"] A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck…

[caption id="attachment_55255102" align="aligncenter" width="5246"] French President Emmanuel Macron listens to employees during a visit to the…