Negotiations to end the long-running war between Afghanistan’s central government and theTalibanslowly inch along, punctuated by spasms of violence. TheTalibanand theIslamic State Khorasan Province…

LebaneseMaronite PatriarchCardinal Bechara BoutrosAl-Rahisat in his chair earlier this month listening to the discontentment of his parish delegations visiting him. Immigration, unemployment,…

In the last few days, Tehran and Beijing have made substantial progress towards an economic and military partnership just short of a formal alliance. While Iran stands to gain much from closer ties…

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have been at loggerheads with each other for almost 10 years over Addis Abba’s controversial dam being built on the Nile River.Ethiopia asserts that the new hydroelectric…

Amid all the uncertainty about the world that will follow the pandemic, one thing is almost sure to be true: tensions betweenthe United StatesandChinawill be even sharper than they were…

OnNovember 11, 1980, a car filled with writers was making its way along a rain-slick highway to a conference inMadrid. The subject of the meeting was the human rights movement in theSoviet Union, and…

U.S.PresidentDonald Trumphas held three summits withKim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, in the last three years and still failed to secure a denuclearization agreement.John Bolton, the formerU.S…

Politicians in Lebanon are no longer responsible for the grim state the country has reached. On one hand, there is a group that blames the policies of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah for…

Hong Kong’s semiautonomous status is due to run out in 2047, 50 years after the UK transferred its powers over the city-state to Beijing. Because Hong Kong enjoyed a great degree of democratic rights…

The resurgence of the coronavirus in the U.S., driven principally by increases in southern and western states — together with thespike in ethnic tensions following the killing of George Floyd by…