In the last three years, tragic scenes of poverty and mayhem have dominated the coverage ofVenezuela, a nation that used to be one of the wealthiest and most democratic countries inSouth America…

On the night ofJanuary 31, theUnited Kingdom officially left theEuropean Union. After almost 50 years of EU membership and three years of bitter division over the vote to leave, the moment of formal…

InDecember 2019, just two months afterU.S.PresidentDonald Trumpwithdrew mostU.S.forces fromSyria, I crossed into the country fromIraqfor my seventh visit sinceAugust 2017. A Turkish offensive…

Zeina Akar was born inKoura, Lebanon. She a BS degree in Social Sciences in Marketing/Management from the Lebanese American University.Akar isGreek Orthodox.She is married to Jawad Adra,…

Britain and Germany’s relationship is a bit of a rocky one. While Germany has worked tirelessly to move past its militaristic reputation of the early 20th century, some British politicians have…

Despite technical problems delaying the release of the results of Iowa’s caucus vote, field data as of this writing indicates a strong performance for Senator Bernie Sanders and a fracturing of the…

During the same week as Lebanon’s new cabinet finalized its Ministerial Statement, and made promises of reform and anti-corruption measures, most Lebanese banks slashed the monthly dollar withdrawal…

TheIslamic Republic of Iranhas suffered a loss with the assassination ofQassem Soleimani, its most prominent military general. The nature and dimensions of that injury, however, are not a simple…

OnJanuary 7, the oil and gas companiesApache CorporationandTotal SAannounced a major oil find off the coast of Suriname, not far from enormous offshore deposits in neighboringGuyanadiscovered…

When Russians woke up on the morning on January 16, few knew the name Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, the head of the country’s tax service. But by the time they went to bed that night,…