In November, theU.S. Supreme Courtstruck down emergency limits thatNew York Statehad placed on religious gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such restrictions, the Court ruled,…

The typically staid transfer of power in Washington was subjected to a historic disruption by a series of bomb threats, violent protests outside the Capitol, and the storming of the legislative…

In a diplomatic breakthrough, Saudi Arabia and its three Arab allies agreed to restore full ties with Doha at a summit in the kingdom on Tuesday. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was met…

Indonesiais the world’s fourth most populous country and its seventh-largest economy. Yet the Southeast Asian country has historically played an undersized role in global affairs. Its traditional…

In early November, Ethiopian Prime MinisterAbiy Ahmedbegan a military offensive against the Tigrayan People’sLiberation Front, an estranged regional government that once dominated Ethiopia’s ruling…

During his recentAl-MayadeenTV interview, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke for four hours in an attempt to address questions and concerns by the Lebanese people and Hezbollah’s constituency…

Upon winning the presidency,Joe Bidenpromised to lead “not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” That pledge is important, because today’s competition between democracies and…

President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy “to do” list only looking more difficult as he approaches inauguration day – even as the US faces new, substantive challenges, including COVID-19. After…

The world has entered an era of drone wars. In four major interstate wars in the last five years—those inLibya, Nagorno-Karabakh,Syria, and Ukraine—armed drones played a dominant, perhaps decisive,…

For more than a decade, right-wing Hindu groups inIndiahave conjured the specter of a “love jihad” among Muslim men: a campaign to court Hindu women with the intention of converting them to Islam…